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Tue, 30 Jun 09
Navistar Debuts Its Husky TSV At UK Vehicle Show
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Navistar_Debuts_Its_Husky_TSV_At_UK_Vehicle_Show_999.html
Warrenville IL (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - Navistar Defense has debuted its International Husky Tactical Support Vehicle (TSV) at the U.K. Ministry of Defence vehicle show known as DVD.

Tue, 30 Jun 09
Revolutionary Armour Unveiled At Defence Equipment Event
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Revolutionary_Armour_Unveiled_At_Defence_Equipment_Event_999.html
Millbrook, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - A ground-breaking armour system and a fleet of new armoured vehicles that will provide better protection to troops in Afghanistan were unveiled at the Defence Vehicle Dynamics (DVD) event.

Tue, 30 Jun 09
Rheinmetall Equips Bundeswehr With Advanced Mortar System
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Rheinmetall_Equips_Bundeswehr_With_Advanced_Mortar_System_999.html
Dusseldorf, Germany (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - Rheinmetall AG of Dusseldorf has just been awarded a EUR54 million contract to equip the German armed forces with a state-of-the-art mortar system. The system's newly developed 120mm mortar track and associated support vehicles make an important contribution to the mission-oriented modernisation of the Bundeswehr armoury.

Tue, 30 Jun 09
Students Create Portable Device To Detect Suicide Bombers
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Students_Create_Portable_Device_To_Detect_Suicide_Bombers_999.html
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have developed a new way to detect them.

Mon, 29 Jun 09
FCS Program Transitions To Army Brigade Combat Team Modernization
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/FCS_Program_Transitions_To_Army_Brigade_Combat_Team_Modernization_999.html
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 29, 2009 - The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics issued an acquisition decision memorandum (ADM) today that implements decisions regarding the Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Team (FCS BCT) program announced by Secretary Robert M. Gates in April. FCS is the Army's largest modernization program.

Thu, 25 Jun 09
Raytheon And Ultra Electronics Pursue Next-Gen Bomb Rack System
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_And_Ultra_Electronics_Pursue_Next_Gen_Bomb_Rack_System_999.html
Indianapolis IN (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - Raytheon and Ultra Electronics Precision Air Systems have teamed to pursue the BRU-69/A Multi-Purpose Bomb Rack (MPBR) program for the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command.

Thu, 25 Jun 09
Boeing Committed To Funding F-15 Silent Eagle Development
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boeing_Committed_To_Funding_F_15_Silent_Eagle_Development_999.html
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009 - Boeing will dedicate funding to further development of the F-15 Silent Eagle program, with the goal of a flight demonstration in the third quarter of 2010.

Tue, 23 Jun 09
US Army Selects BAE To Develop Night-Vision Goggle
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Army_Selects_BAE_To_Develop_Night_Vision_Goggle_999.html
Lexington MA (SPX) Jun 23, 2009 - BAE Systems will continue development of a digital night-vision goggle the U.S. Army has identified as a priority for improving warfighter situational awareness.

Mon, 22 Jun 09
Gates calls US Congress move on F-22 jet a 'problem'
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Gates_calls_US_Congress_move_on_F-22_jet_a_problem_999.html
Washington (AFP) June 18, 2009 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday a move by US lawmakers to reject his advice and fund the production of a dozen more F-22 fighters was a "big problem."

Mon, 22 Jun 09
Russia grounds Su-24 bombers after two crashes in week
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russia_grounds_Su-24_bombers_after_two_crashes_in_week_999.html
Moscow (AFP) June 19, 2009 - Russia on Friday halted all flights by the Sukhoi-24 frontline bomber after the plane suffered two crashes in the space of a week, the military said.

Fri, 19 Jun 09
IAI To Supply HAROP System
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/IAI_To_Supply_HAROP_System_999.html
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jun 19, 2009 - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a contract to supply a HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) system to a foreign customer. The contract is estimated to be worth over $100 million.

Fri, 19 Jun 09
Raytheon Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer Completes Design Milestone
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Miniature_Air_Launched_Decoy_Jammer_Completes_Design_Milestone_999.html
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 19, 2009 - The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon completed a preliminary design review of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer. The MALD-J adds radar-jamming capability to the basic MALD platform.

Fri, 19 Jun 09
Centre for ex-Soviet weapons scientists warns of budget cuts
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Centre_for_ex-Soviet_weapons_scientists_warns_of_budget_cuts_999.html
Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2009 - An international centre that funds ex-Soviet weapons scientists to prevent their knowledge from falling into the hands of terrorists warned on Thursday that it faces steep budget cuts.

Thu, 18 Jun 09
Flash point Hormuz: Countering mine peril
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Flash_point_Hormuz_Countering_mine_peril_999.html
Manama, Bahrain (UPI) Jun 16, 2009 - Britain's Royal Navy has reinforced its mine-hunting capabilities in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the only way in and out of the strategic waterway through which some 40 percent of the world's oil supplies pass.

Wed, 17 Jun 09
IAI Seals Deal To Provide GRIFFIN 3 Laser Guided Bomb Kit
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/IAI_Seals_Deal_To_Provide_GRIFFIN_3_Laser_Guided_Bomb_Kit_999.html
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jun 17, 2009 - GRIFFIN 3 hitting a target Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has recently signed a contract worth tens of millions of dollars to provide a foreign customer with the GRIFFIN 3, the Next Generation Laser Guided Bomb (NGLGB) Kit. The GRIFFIN 3 Kit is an advanced guidance kit which is attached to a general purpose or penetration aerial bomb.

Tue, 16 Jun 09
Raytheon Fires First Excalibur Ib Projectiles From Swedish Archer Gun System
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Fires_First_Excalibur_Ib_Projectiles_From_Swedish_Archer_Gun_System_999.html
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 16, 2009 - In a first-of-its-kind test, Raytheon fired four Excalibur Ib projectiles from a Swedish Archer gun system, demonstrating Excalibur Ib's compatibility with the system and meeting all test objectives.

Tue, 16 Jun 09
Maiden Test Flight For RAF Future Aircraft
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Maiden_Test_Flight_For_RAF_Future_Aircraft_999.html
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 16, 2009 - An Airbus A330 that will become the first of a new fleet of multi-role tanker aircraft has taken to the skies for the very first time in Toulouse, France.

Tue, 16 Jun 09
MC-12 Flies First Combat Mission
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/MC12_Flies_First_Combat_Mission_999.html
Joint Base Balad, Iraq (SPX) Jun 16, 2009 - The Air Force's newest intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft flew its first combat sortie June 10 over Iraq.

Tue, 16 Jun 09
Northrop Grumman Delivers Flight-Ready Integrated CNI System For F-35
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Northrop_Grumman_Delivers_Flight_Ready_Integrated_CNI_System_For_F_35_999.html
San Diego CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2009 - Northrop Grumman has delivered the initial flight-ready integrated communications, navigation and identification (CNI) system for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter program. The system has successfully completed safety of flight tests and obtained approval for flying this summer onboard the first mission systems equipped F-35 aircraft.

Sun, 14 Jun 09
Ex-Pentagon official indicted in China espionage case
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Ex-Pentagon_official_indicted_in_China_espionage_case_999.html
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2009 - A federal grand jury indicted a former Pentagon official who had a "top secret" security clearance on charges of spying for China and lying to cover up his actions, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Fri, 12 Jun 09
Base10 Selects RTI's Real-Time Middleware For UGV Project
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Base10_Selects_RTI_Real_Time_Middleware_For_UGV_Project_999.html
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009 - Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced that Base Ten Systems Electronics GmbH (Base10) has selected RTI Data Distribution Service for their unmanned ground-based vehicle (UGV) project. When the German Ministry of Defense needed the expertise to develop a UGV for deployment in hazardous environments, Base 10 was the natural choice.

Thu, 11 Jun 09
BAE Set To Restore Last Bi-Plane Of WW2
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/BAE_Set_To_Restore_Last_Bi_Plane_Of_WW2_999.html
Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2009 - One of the last British bi-planes to have seen active service, the Fairey Swordfish, which helped sink the Bismarck and the Italian battle fleet in WW2, is to be restored to her former glory thanks to the specialist skills of engineers at BAE Systems in this, the Royal Navy's centenary year of naval aviation.

Thu, 11 Jun 09
Boeing P-8A Poseidon T2 Successfully Completes First Flight
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boeing_P_8A_Poseidon_T2_Successfully_Completes_First_Flight_999.html
Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 11, 2009 - Boeing P-8A Poseidon test aircraft T2 takes off from Renton Field today to begin its successful first flight. T2 took off at 10:32 a.m. Pacific time and landed two hours and 56 minutes later at Boeing Field in Seattle at 1:28 p.m.

Thu, 11 Jun 09
The Blast-Guard Interior Blast Protection System
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/The_Blast_Guard_Interior_Blast_Protection_System_999.html
Williton, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2009 - Ballista-Tek has developed Blast Attenuating Vehicle Seating and Floor Matting designed to increase survivability and reduce injury to Troops in Armoured and Light vehicles.

Tue, 9 Jun 09
LockMart And USAF Mark Successful Sniper ATP Site Activations
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/LockMart_And_USAF_Mark_Successful_Sniper_ATP_Site_Activations_999.html
Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2009 - Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have successfully completed Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) A-10C site activations at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ, and Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany.

Tue, 9 Jun 09
LockMart Receives Contract For Third Lot Of F-35s
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/LockMart_Receives_Contract_For_Third_Lot_Of_F_35_999.html
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2009 - The United States Department of Defense has awarded Lockheed Martin a $2.1 billion contract modification to produce 17 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters in the third lot of low-rate initial production (LRIP). The buy also includes the first international orders - two F-35 operational test aircraft for the United Kingdom and one for the Netherlands.

Tue, 9 Jun 09
1st Detect Awarded SBIR From Defense Threat Reduction Agency
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/1st_Detect_Awarded_SBIR_From_Defense_Threat_Reduction_Agency_999.html
Austin TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2009 - 1st Detect Corporation has announced it is the recipient of a Phase I award from the U.S. Army's Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The award will go to the development of a novel sample inlet system to significantly improve the sensitivity of mass spectrometers.

Tue, 9 Jun 09
Defense Focus: Land war threats -- Part 4
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Defense_Focus_Land_war_threats_Part_4_999.html
Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2009 - People around the world understandably anxiously watch the Middle East for fear that new wars may break out in the region for control of its huge oil resources -- still the richest, most high quality and most easily accessible on the planet. Almost nobody pays any attention to the emergence of a similar situation in the Arctic Ocean: Yet international tensions are slowly but remorselessly rising there too, and for the same reason: increasing demand and competition for natural resources, especially oil and gas.

Mon, 8 Jun 09
Defense Focus: Land war threats -- Part 3
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Defense_Focus_Land_war_threats_Part_3_999.html
Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2009 - The Russian government doesn't believe that military forces should be reduced in the coming decades, unlike American liberals, but it does believe in global warming, unlike many American conservatives.

Mon, 8 Jun 09
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Integrated Test Team Wins Award
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/E_2D_Advanced_Hawkeye_Integrated_Test_Team_Wins_Award_999.html
Bethpage NY (SPX) Jun 08, 2009 - The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Integrated Test Team (ITT) - composed of military, civil service and industry personnel from Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, prime contractor Northrop Grumman and other aerospace industry contractors - has received the Weapons Systems Award from the Order of Daedalians, an organization that has been dedicated to supporting military services and aerospace activities for more than 75 years.

Mon, 8 Jun 09
US military technology easily shipped abroad: US audit
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_military_technology_easily_shipped_abroad_US_audit_999.html
Washington (AFP) June 5, 2009 - Sensitive military technology used in nuclear weapons and missiles can be bought easily in the United States and illegally exported abroad, a government audit has found.

Thu, 4 Jun 09
GPS-Guided Mortar Rounds Demonstrate Tactical Capability
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/GPS_Guided_Mortar_Rounds_Demonstrate_Tactical_Capability_999.html
Yuma Proving Grounds AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2009 - A new type of 120 mm precision-guided mortar round hit eight out of nine target areas during a recent U.S. Army-Raytheon cooperative research and development agreement demonstration.

Thu, 4 Jun 09
LockMart Awarded Contract To Develop USAF Next-Gen Long-Range Radar
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/LockMart_Awarded_Contract_To_Develop_USAF_Next_Gen_Long_Range_Radar_999.html
Syracuse NY (SPX) Jun 04, 2009 - The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a fixed-price contract for nearly $25 million to develop a prototype for the next-generation 3-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR). Lockheed Martin was one of two industry teams placed under contract for the technical development of this new land-based radar.

Thu, 4 Jun 09
Military Matters: The case against torture
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Military_Matters_The_case_against_torture_999.html
Washington (UPI) Jun 3, 2009 - The recent fire/counter-fire between U.S. President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney over Guantanamo, the prisoners held there and techniques used in their interrogation revealed a distressing ignorance in the White House. Specifically, it revealed that Obama and his advisers are ignorant of military theory.

Thu, 4 Jun 09
Defense Focus: Land war threats -- Part 1
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Defense_Focus_Land_war_threats_Part_1_999.html
Washington (UPI) Jun 3, 2009 - The two conventional land wars that were fought in the Northern Hemisphere over the past year were both small ones, almost tiny in geographical range and short in duration.

Thu, 4 Jun 09
Defense Focus: Future wars -- Part 5
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Defense_Focus_Future_wars_Part_5_999.html
Washington (UPI) Jun 2, 2009 - Wars are costly, messy things. They are never efficient and only very seldom elegant.

Tue, 2 Jun 09
BAE Submits Proposal For Medium Tactical Vehicle Competition
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/BAE_Submits_Proposal_For_Medium_Tactical_Vehicle_Competition_999.html
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 02, 2009 - BAE Systems submitted its proposal to the U.S. Government to produce the next generation of medium tactical vehicles for the U.S. Army. The contract is expected to be awarded in July for an estimated 12,400 vehicles and 10,900 trailers to be delivered to the U.S. Army from 2010 through 2014.

Tue, 2 Jun 09
Boeing Team Rebuilds B-1 Backbone For USAF
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boeing_Team_Rebuilds_B_1_Backbone_For_USAF_999.html
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2009 - A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber returned to flight last week after a team led by Boeing replaced its catastrophically damaged upper-center boron longeron - the aircraft's "backbone."

Tue, 2 Jun 09
Defense Focus: Future wars -- Part 4
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Defense_Focus_Future_wars_Part_4_999.html
Washington (UPI) Jun 1, 2009 - Recent wars involving major powers over the past decade have usually pitted them against small or technologically limited opponents. Some of the lessons learned from these wars are extremely important, but others are misleading.

Tue, 2 Jun 09
ESC Officials Complete Milestone For Advanced Radar System
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/ESC_Officials_Complete_Milestone_For_Advanced_Radar_System_999.html
Hancom AFB MA (SPX) Jun 02, 2009 - Equipping warfighters with the technology to detect moving targets in combat gained momentum when Electronic Systems Center officials here, in concert with prime contractors and other organizations, recently completed a key flight milestone for the Multiplatform Radar Technology Insertion Program.

Tue, 2 Jun 09
Rockwell Collins Receives Contract For US Army MSS Program
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Rockwell_Collins_Receives_Contract_For_US_Army_MSS_Program_999.html
Cedar Rapids IA (SPX) Jun 01, 2009 - The U.S. Army has selected Rockwell Collins as the prime contractor to provide an integrated video display system for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Mounted Soldier System (MSS) program, which initially includes M1-A2 SEP V2, M2-A3 Bradley, M3-A3 Bradley and M113 Medical Evacuation Variant vehicles.