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Beretta discloses details of its proposal for the British Army’s Project Grayburn

The company is offering weapons and accessories produced by itself and by other Beretta Holding subsidiaries.

Saudi Arabia approved for $3.5 billion AMRAAM buy ahead of Trump visit

The possible sale for 1,000 AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), comes ahead of President Trump’s visit to the country later in the month.

US services test Raytheon ASTARTE AI-enabled software system

The solution was evaluated by the US Army and Air Force during the Project Convergence Capstone 5.

Axe swings on US Army procurements

The US Army was undergoing a large refresh of its land vehicles but this seems to have come to a whiplash stop. Procurements have been reduced, legacy vehicles and systems are on the chopping block and even the number of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs) is under threat.

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Uncrewed Vehicles

Insitu demonstrates Electronic Fuel Injection technology on Heavy Fuel Engine

22nd January 2010

Insitu successfully flight-tested electronic fuel injection (EFI) on its heavy fuel engine (HFE). This achievement is a key risk-reduction milestone for the company's small tactical …
Digital Battlespace

ViaSat awarded first Limited Production order for MIDS JTRS terminals

22nd January 2010

ViaSat has been awarded a Limited Production (LP) order valued at $14.4 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) terminals …
Digital Battlespace

Northrop Grumman will enter competition as prime contractor for Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense contract

22nd January 2010

Northrop Grumman Corporation today said it will enter the competition as a prime contractor for the US Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) …
Defence Helicopter

Bell Names Kohler to Head Canada Operations

22nd January 2010

Bell Helicopter has promoted Barry Kohler, currently Bell’s vice president of Commercial Programmes, to president of Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited. He succeeds Eric Cardinali, …
Digital Battlespace

Elbit Systems to supply various types of Laser Based Systems valued at $50 million

21st January 2010

Elbit Systems announced today that it was awarded contracts in an aggregate amount of approximately $50 million to supply various types of laser based systems …
Digital Battlespace

Secure tactical radio for peacekeeping forces

21st January 2010

FMV, the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration, has placed an additional order for Sectra's crypto for secure tactical radio. The encryption is used by Swedish peacekeeping …
Land Warfare

Lockheed Martin selects Protonex to enhance HULC Power Supply Technologies

21st January 2010

Lockheed Martin has selected Protonex Technology Corporation to develop power supply concepts that will enable the HULC robotic exoskeleton to support 72+-hour extended missions. Protonex …
Military Logistics

HDT Engineered Technologies (HDT) wins Collective Protection Shelter Systems contract with Canadian Department of National Defence

20th January 2010

HDT Engineered Technologies (HDT), a leader in design, development and production of integrated, deployable solutions for government, commercial and military customers, won the Collective Protection …
Digital Battlespace

Lockheed Martin achieves key integration milestones on first Mobile User Objective System satellite

20th January 2010

Lockheed Martin announced today that it has successfully mated the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite's high-performance communications system module with the propulsion core …
Digital Battlespace

Harris Corp awarded $26 M managed IT solutions contract for Air National Guard Network/Regional Ops and Security Centers

20th January 2010

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company has been awarded a five-year, $26 million contract to provide managed information technology solutions to the …
Land Warfare

BAE Systems Unveils new modernised Howitzer vehicle for US Army

20th January 2010

BAE Systems today unveiled its upgraded PIM (Paladin Integrated Management) vehicle to military customers, Congressional representatives, community leaders and employees at a ceremony held at …
Uncrewed Vehicles

Atlas successfully ends EU research project Grex on unmanned underwater vehicles

20th January 2010

Atlas Elektronik has successfully completed a European research project of landmark significance. For the EU research project Grex, Atlas contributed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) …
Defence Helicopter

Dutch Apaches fly 6,000 hours in Afghanistan

20th January 2010

The Apache helicopters of the Dutch Air Task Force (ATF) flew their 6,000th flying hour last Friday on behalf of the International Security Assistance Force …
Defence Helicopter

First upgraded Lynx helicopters are back in service

20th January 2010

The first four upgraded Lynx Mk9 helicopters, which are to be sent to Afghanistan, have re-entered service, with three of the aircraft now being used …
Defence Helicopter

Eurocopter - Civil orders decrease while military orders increase

20th January 2010

Eurocopter met its business and delivery objectives for 2009 and stabilised its turnover at the level of its record year, 2008. The world economic crisis …
Defence Helicopter

Chinooks prepare to head for Norway

20th January 2010

In February and March some of RAF Odiham personnel are deploying to Norway on Exercise Clockwork for a month. The recent heavy snowfall at RAF …
Defence Helicopter

AgustaWestland selects MSC.Software to improve helicopter design

20th January 2010

MSC.Software, a leading global provider of simulation software and services, today announced that AgustaWestland has chosen MSC.Software CAE tools and simulation management technologies to power …
Defence Helicopter

USS Normandy, HSL 46 Det 3 provide relief to Haitian earthquake victims

20th January 2010

Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HSL) (Light) 46 Detachment 3, embarked aboard USS Normandy (CG 60), completed the first of many humanitarian relief missions inside Port-au-Prince, Haiti …
Defence Helicopter

Elbit Systems' US subsidiary awarded $15.6M contract for Tactical Video Data Link for US Marine Corps AH-1W

20th January 2010

Elbit Systems announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Elbit Systems of America, LLC, has been awarded a contract from NAVAIR for Elbit Systems' Tactical Video …