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LockMart Gets USAF Contract For Paveway 2 And Laser Guided Bomb Kits
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin received a $31.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for follow-on production of paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) kits. The contract...
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Weapons Grade High Power Fiber Laser
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a 30-kilowatt electric fiber laser, the highest power ever documented while retaining beam quality and electrical efficiency. T...
DR Congo arms depot blast death toll rises to more than 20: UN
Jan 25, 2014 (AFP)
An explosion at an arms depot in the central Democratic Republic of Congo claimed more than 20 lives, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country said Saturday. ...
Raytheon Demos Enhanced Paveway II GBU-50s For French Airforce
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
Raytheon and the French Air Force completed a demonstration of a penetrator variant of a Paveway GBU-50 from a Mirage 2000D multirole fighter jet. The weapon me...
The right stuffing: Turkeys enlisted in terror fight
Jan 21, 2014 (AFP)
The flappy skin on the turkey's face and throat could help save human lives in a terror attack or a chemical spill -- or maybe even from cancer. For millennia, ...
US probes Honeywell over sensor made in China
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
US defense contractor Honeywell said Monday it is being investigated by US authorities about the manufacture of a defense-related sensor in China used for a US ...
US Navy Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Production of Paveway II
Jan 09, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin received an $84.5 million contract on Dec. 23 from the U.S. Navy to produce paveway II Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR). Under the ...
Raytheon awarded $12.9 million Cooperative Engagement Capability contract
Dec 26, 2013 (SPX)
Raytheon has been awarded a $12,921,937 modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise options for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) for the AN...
Boeing Delivers Final Focused Lethality Munition to USAF
Dec 25, 2013 (SPX)
Boeing has delivered the 500th Focused Lethality Munition (FLM) to the U.S. Air Force this month, completing the contract for the low-collateral-damage weapon 1...
US Army Awards Raytheon contract for Excalibur Ib
Dec 25, 2013 (SPX)
The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon a $15 million contract modification for the procurement of 216 Excalibur Ib rounds. Excalibur is a 155mm precision-guided, ex...
Russia's Kalashnikov, designer of AK-47, dies
Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)
Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the fabled AK-47 automatic rifle which became a weapon of choice for guerrillas and governments the world over, died Monday at ...
Lockheed Martin Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Completes Manufacturing Review
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
The Lockheed Martin Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) team successfully completed the government's Manufacturing Readiness Assessment (MRA), an important mile...
Researchers Develop World's Highest Quantum Efficiency UV Photodetectors
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed the world's highest quantum efficiency ultraviolet...
Raytheon demonstrates unparalleled precision in live-fire testing of self-propelled howitzer
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
The U.S. Army and Raytheon have fired 10 precision-guided Excalibur projectiles during the final phase of compatibility testing at Yuma Proving Ground. This liv...
U.S. Army holds online development event
Dec 12, 2013 (UPI)
The U.S. Army has been holding a crowd-sourcing event this week to develop a mobile command post mounted on a lightweight tactical all-terrain vehicle. The onli...
Financial groups pour billions into cluster bomb trade: NGO
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
Investment in cluster bomb producers fell this year after a US defence contractor stopped making the weapons, but major financial firms continued to back the tr...
Switzerland, Austria seek U.S. Foreign Military Sales deals
Dec 06, 2013 (UPI)
Two European countries are separately seeking support services and aircraft from the United States under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The U.S. Defense Se...
Less than 90 days: how US will destroy Syria chemical weapons
Dec 05, 2013 (AFP)
A ship, two portable treatment plants and less than 90 days: that's the plan the Pentagon unveiled Thursday to destroy "hundreds of tons" of Syria's most danger...
Fill out the form for your bomb: Pentagon
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
Here's a friendly reminder from the Pentagon police chief: please fill out the proper forms before you bring a bomb to work. The advice came after security guar...
Much of Venezuela's Russian arms said to be faulty
Nov 26, 2013 (UPI)
Russians arms inventories in Venezuela are blighted by widespread malfunction, breakdown and an endemic lack of operational readiness, opposition critics said. ...
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