Rockwell Collins has successfully conducted UHF SATCOM and HF waveform Functional Qualification Testing (FQT) on the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) vehicular Ground Mobile Radios (GMR). This testing is conducted to ensure that the Software Communications Architecture compliant waveforms met all allocated JTRS requirements.
FQT reasonably simulates the production environment. Successfully conducting FQT verifies that the [...]

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Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff along with Pradeep Kumar, Defence Secretary embarked the aircraft carrier INS Viraat operating on the eastern seaboard to kick start the first phase of ‘TROPEX 10’. The exercise involves the participation of most major combatants of the Indian Navy, as also participation of the Indian Air Force [...]

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The programme to build the UK’s new aircraft carriers gained further momentum today, as BAE Systems began construction at Portsmouth Naval Base – the future home of the Queen Elizabeth Class ships.
Secretary of State for Defence, Bob Ainsworth, was invited to push the button on the company’s new state of the art plasma steel cutter, [...]

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