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Defense Update - August 16, 2006
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Upcoming events (September):
click here for the full
2006 and
2007 exhibitions and conference
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| Raytheon
gets $266 million for Standard SM3-1A
ABM |
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Raytheon Missile Systems will receive additional
US$266 million to continue development of Standard Missile-3
Block IA Missiles for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
for the US Navy and Japan. The company will deliver 29 missiles
by the end of 2009. |
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Israeli
Protector Proposed for US Navy & Coast Guard |
| RAFAEL
is promoting the Protector Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) for
U.S. Navy littoral warfare, & coast-guard, under cooperating
with BAE Systems, and Lockheed Martin. |
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EADS'
Armored Transportation Containers for Denmark
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EADS will supply two protected
personal transport to the Danish Army. The TransProtec
containers were specially developed for the safe transport of
people in crisis areas. |
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| EA-18G
Growler Takes Off for its First Flight |
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Boeing F/A-18 chief test pilot
Ricardo Traven and chief weapons system operator Rick Junkin
conducted the first flight of the U.S. Navy's newest airborne
electronic attack (AEA) aircraft. |
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| Hornets
to Improve Litening Pods Carriage Flexibility |
| The US Marine Corps
are performing minor modifications in their F/A-18s to expand
the carrying envelope of the Litening targeting pods. |
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| IDF
To get more Armored LandRovers |
| The Israeli Army
will soon get more David armored urban light armored
Land-Rover Defender. The vehicles will be armored and delivered
by the US Based subsidiary of the Israeli company MDT under a
US$10 million DOD contract. |
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