French Army receives first serially produced CAESAR truck mounted artillery guns
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
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U.K. Royal Air Force Tankers to be equipped with Infrared Countermeasures Systems
Friday, July 18th, 2008 |Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected to provide its laser-based Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures Systems (LAIRCM) for the U.K. Royal Air Force’s (RAF) air-to-air refueling and transport aircraft.
Under the terms of the $93 million contract, Northrop Grumman’s Defensive Systems Division will provide LAIRCM system hardware and support for the U.K.’s Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft program (FSTA) to Thales U.K., a member of the AirTanker consortium.
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UK MoD teams with industry for complex weapons
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |A new approach to purchasing the UK armed forces’ complex weapons took a step forward on 15th July, with the launch of an Assessment Phase for Team Complex Weapons (Team CW), an innovative partnership between the Ministry of Defence, MBDA (UK), Thales UK, QinetiQ and Roxel UK Ltd.
The Teaming Agreement, signed by all Team CW members, creates the environment necessary to develop a partnering approach to the planning and delivery of a long term strategy for the Complex Weapons sector in the UK. The Assessment Phase of the Team CW Programme will assess this radically new approach to develop and produce the UK’s military requirements for the next generation of missiles and guided weapons for the armed forces.
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First of Class 209PN Submarine for the Portuguese Navy launched in Kiel
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 |On 15th July 2008, the first of two Class 209PN submarines for the Portuguese Navy was launched at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel. The submarine was named N.R.P. TRIDENTE by Dr. Alda Taborda, wife of the President of the Portuguese Parliament Dr. Jaima Gama.
The new submarine has a combined diesel-electric and fuel cell propulsion system. Equipped with ultra-modern sensors and an integrated Command and Weapon Control System, it is optimally suited to its future reconnaissance and surveillance tasks.
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RTM 322 powers UK Apaches through 100,000 flight hours
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 |The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 has achieved a significant milestone, logging 100,000 flight hours powering the UK Army Air Corps’ fleet of AgustaWestland Apache helicopters.
The landmark comes almost exactly ten years after the RTM322 was fitted to the Apache for trials. Over 20,000 of these flight hours have been accumulated in the harsh environment of desert operations.
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UK MOD announces Mantis UAS Demonstrator Programme
Monday, July 14th, 2008 |BAE Systems has entered into a jointly funded 1st phase of a programme with the UK Ministry of Defence to develop an Unmanned Autonomous System (UAS) that will help shape technology development for the UK’s future UAS capability.
The Mantis UAS Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator programme will bring together technologies, capabilities and systems that will demonstrate the potential of a large unmanned aircraft to support future UK Operational needs.
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40 German CH-53 transport helicopter to be mordernised
Monday, July 14th, 2008 |EADS Defence & Security (DS) will modernise 40 German helicopters of the type CH-53 as part of a product improvement project. As a sub-contractor of Eurocopter Germany, Defence Electronics, an integrated Business Unit of EADS DS, is supplying important subsystems from the self-protection, avionics and logistics sector. As the company announced, the order is worth around 40 million euros.
Eurocopter built the German CH-53 helicopters under licence at the end of the 1960s and, as the company responsible for the weapon system, has already equipped 20 helicopters with, for example, Defence Electronics’ MILDS missile warning system for deployment abroad.
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Royal Navy seizes massive drugs haul in the Gulf
Monday, July 14th, 2008 |
Plymouth-based Royal Navy warships operating in the Gulf region have seized a massive 23 tonnes of narcotics, which could have been used to fund the insurgency fighting British forces in Afghanistan. The British warships involved were Devonport-based frigates HMS Chatham and HMS Montrose, and the Portsmouth-based destroyer HMS Edinburgh. They were supported by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary helicopter support ship Argus and her embarked Sea King aircraft.
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Hungary tests Sidewinder missiles on Gripen
Monday, July 14th, 2008 |It was the PUMA Squadron, from the Hungarian Air Force Kecskemét Air Base, which flew into Vidsel with six Gripen fighter aircraft during the second week in June. The purpose of the week long visit was to verify the Sidewinder missile system, known as Robot 74 in Sweden, for the Hungarian version of the Gripen fighter.
The trials, which involved live firings carried out against manoeuvrable towed targets, took place during two aircraft runs with four planned missile firings on each run.
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France test fire SAMP/T
Friday, July 11th, 2008 |
The French General Delegation for Armaments (DGA) and French Air Force at Biscarrosse CELM (test launch of missiles) test site, test fired Aster 30 on July 3, 2008, as a part of evaluation of technical-operational system of ground-air medium-range land ( SAMP / T). This success represents a major step for SAMP / T and paves the way for deliveries of materials series at the Air Force provided at the end of 2008.
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HMS Victorious refits completed
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 |The Vanguard class submarine HMS Victorious has left Plymouth today, Thursday 10 July 2008, after completing her three and a half year multi-million pound overhaul at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Victorious is heading to Scotland for sea trials that mark the start of a process of regeneration of the platform and crew to operational status following her Long Overhaul Period (Refuel) [LOP(R)].
Over 80 submarine design improvements have been incorporated with all the submarine systems having been surveyed, overhauled and refurbished or replaced, returning the vessel to ‘as new’ condition. 14,000 items of ship’s equipment were removed and 2,600 new items manufactured. The project has involved some 2.2 million man-hours and 10,000 people in total.
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