Articles from Armada International (October 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Aerovironment has received $ 4.6 million in funding from the Darpa to develop a small drone capable of performing hover, perch and stare missions.			40
AgustaWestland recently signed a 260 million [euro] contract to supply the Qatar Armed Forces.			28
Always faster, sometimes safer: multi-national operations, whether of disaster relief or peacekeeping nature, in distant underdeveloped regions are driving demands for strategic airlifters and tankers, and for fixed-, rotary- and tilt-wing intra-theatre transports. Sea and land aspects of mobility are reviewed in following sections of this report.	Braybrook, Roy		4294
BBN Technologies has received a subcontract from Secure Communication Systems.			38
Big deals in short.			339
Boeing has been awarded a five-year, $ 4.3 billion contract from the US Army to deliver 181 CH-47F Chinook helicopters plus ten additional Chinooks under FY2008 supplemental funding.			63
Boeing.			45
Bulk means sea.	Withington, Thomas		4034
Caesar arrives in France.			89
Corvette and frigate market.	Withington, Thomas		3118
Data Link Solutions has received a $12.2 million contract from the British Ministry of Defence to provide support services for Link 16 products installed on Royal Air Force E-3, Tornado and Typhoon fixed-wing aircraft, Royal Navy Sea King helicopters, Type 42 destroyers and the UK Air Defence Ground Environment.			70
Desmi has received a contract from the Royal Navy to oversee the pump supply and contract management of the Future Aircraft Carrier programme.			59
Eads will modernise approximately 600 STR2000 transponder systems for the German Armed Forces and Nato, bringing the systems up to new international Mode S standard.			42
Elbit Systems has received an order from the Israeli Defense Forces to supply its Mars thermal imaging and target acquisition system.			51
English/Arabic Lynx langue.			75
Farnborough 2008.	Kemp, Ian; Withington, Thomas		2278
Fire Scout & Brite Star II.			104
Flir Systems has received an $11.1 million contract modification from the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command to provide service upgrades and logistics support for 'certain' US Army and Marine Corps programmes.			45
Freedom on Lake Michigan.			91
Gated imager for hi-speed.			92
General Dynamics has received a contract modification from the US Marine Corps System Command to produce a further nine capability set II Combat Operations Centers along with 18 common modules.			90
Hammer test on display.			104
Hunter Defense Technologies has announced its acquisition of New World Associates, a Virginia-based company providing engineering and product development services to military and homeland security markets.			35
ITT Communications Systems was selected by Eads Defence & Security to provide Spearnet radio systems.			30
ITT has received a follow-on, fixed-price contract worth up to one billion dollars from the US Naval Sea Systems Command.			52
ITT was awarded a $ 23 million contract from the British Ministry of Defence to supply the company's Head-Mounted Night Vision Systems (HMNVS) and support services.			46
Lightning bolts out over Texas.			142
Lockheed Martin has acquired the business unit of Natero.			25
Lockheed Martin has received a $ 61 million follow-on contract to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Unitary rockets, with work to be performed at the company's facilities in Arkansas and Texas.			49
Lockheed Martin has reported receiving readiness certification from the US Air Force for dedicated operational utility evaluation and trial period operations of the first Space Based Infrared System (Sbirs) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-I) payload and ground system.			57
Lockheed Martin was awarded an $ 80 million follow-on contract by the US Air Force to produce Gunship Multispectral Sensor Systems (GMS2) electrooptical/infrared fire control systems for the AC-130U gunship.			46
Long-distance whispering: the idea of packing a radio on one's back over a desert, through a jungle or up-river in a small boat when there are so many hand-held options available reeks of sacrilege in terms of weight penalty. But the difference those few extra Watts of power make when exchanging time-critical information is viewed with not-so-well-disguised veneration.	Keggler, Johnny		2412
Metric AASM qual firing.			99
Mout gun from Rheinmetall.			234
No fighting dirty: unlike the Cold War when troops and equipment were more often than not expected to fight 'dirty', modern operational scenarios require that troops be cleansed of any chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear contamination.	Kemp, Ian		1862
Northrop Grumman has announced its two Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites have successfully completed acoustic testing in their launch configuration.			41
Northrop Grumman will deliver twelve third-generation Litening Advanced Targeting (AT) systems for the Portuguese Air Force's F-16 AT Pod upgrade programme.			29
On the cover.			37
Patria has received an order from the Finnish Defence Forces for testing the Patria Nemo Navy concept, which is aimed at creating a new mobile fire-support system for the coastal jaeger battalions.			48
Paveway IV demonstration.			111
Pre-M-346 maiden flight.			81
Rolling (sometimes rocking) stock: 'Fortress' is the project name given to the urgent operational requirement programme launched in January 2008 to prepare 280 of the British Army's newly delivered MAN Support Vehicles for deployment with the 7th Armoured Brigade in Iraq. The enhancements are typical of the measures need to enhance survivability in the face of asymmetric threats.	Kemp, Ian		5941
Ruag has completed the SEK 335 million acquisition of Saab Space from its parent company, Saab.			44
Sea eyes and ears: in a never-ending process to keep older and newer ships on the crest of the wave, defence manufacturers in Europe, North America and Africa continue to furnish the world's navies with a range of radar, sonar and electro-optical sensors that can enhance vessel situational awareness and enable them to interface with existing combat management systems and other sensors.	Withington, Thomas		2086
Securing the base: on 14 July 'hundreds' of insurgents attacked a temporary combat outpost in Afghanistan's Kunar province near the Pakistan border occupied by 45 members of the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team and 25 soldiers of the Afghan National Army. The attack inflicted the highest casually toll in more than three years, with nine US soldiers dead and another 15 wounded.	Kemp, Ian		3649
Serial FPDP gives 800 MB/s.			105
Signature Industries will provide Armasuisse, the Swiss defence procurement agency, with its Sarbe 6-406G personal locator beacon for Swiss Air Force pilots.			36
Sikorsky Aircraft has successfully achieved first flight of its X2 helicopter technology demonstrator in a 30-minute hover/forward flight/hover turn exercise.			40
Sikorsky has completed the first flight of its UH-60M Upgrade Black Hawk helicopter--allegedly the only fly-by-wire rotary wing aircraft currently in development with the US Army.			52
Still a steep learning curve: as seen from a wide-angle lens, the drone world is reaching a turning point, probably one that will lead to many others. One thing is clear, though, Europe is finally trying to hammer its own niche in a discipline that has been hitherto led by Israel and the United States.	Biass, Eric H.		1189
Superconductor degaussing.			87
The expense of the final frontier.			75
The infantry's 40 mm punch: new designs and ammunition types are extending the capabilities of the shoulder-fired 40-mm grenade launcher. With lightweight alloys, composite materials and new warhead technologies these weapons are a far cry from their 1950s ancestors.	Kemp, Ian		2738
The technology of first aid: << help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available >>. This is a simple and concise definition of first aid. But when in a combat zone that definition needs to be expanded to include "and stay alive yourself". Technology has risen to the challenge to ensure such is the case.	Keggler, Johnny		1524
Ti OBR for Excalibur.			68
Traveling Wave Tube amplifier.			102
Videoscout in tablet format.			136
West wind God's 54-hour vigil.			128
Westwind Technologies received a contract from the Air Warrior Product Office at the US Army Aviation Missile Command to support the Air Warrior programme in developing and fielding integrated soldier systems for US Army helicopter crewmembers.			54