BAE WINS CONTRACT FOR MORE F-4 DRONES.Byline: Daily News MOJAVE Mojave (mōhä`vē), river, c.100 mi (160 km) long, rising in the San Bernardino Mts., S Calif., and flowing generally north to disappear in the Mojave Desert. - BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. has been awarded a $21 million U.S. Air Force contract to convert 17 Vietnam War-era F-4 fighter jets into QF-4 aerial- target drones. This award is the first of five annual options, which together could be worth $225 million. BAE Systems' Flight Systems operations, located in Mojave, will perform the work. The production effort will be completed by August 2007 with a follow-on four-year warranty period. ``BAE Systems welcomes this opportunity to continue to provide realistic targets to our valued customer. Our targets' contribution to weapons development and training directly affects the ability of our war fighters to prevail,'' said Paul Nafziger, BAE Systems vice president and general manager at Mojave. To date, BAE Systems has converted 170 F-4s into full-scale aerial aerial: see antenna, in electronics. targets. The Headquarters Air Armament Center, Eglin Air Force Base Eglin Air Force Base is the home of the United States Air Force 96th Air Base Wing of the Air Force Materiel Command, and is also headquarters for more than 45 associate units. , Fla., is the contracting office. |
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