AUSA 2025: AM General Hawkeye awaits first production contract
AM General presented its new Hawkeye at AUSA 2025 in Washington, with prototypes of the howitzer system having been trialled in Ukraine last year.
Cubic awarded $26m to supply Javelin trainer components
Cubic Corporation announced today that its defense systems business has been awarded a $26 million contract for basic skills trainers and student stations for the Javelin Field Tactical Trainer. Cubic will begin delivering the systems in January 2012 under a follow-on contract with the Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture.
"Javelin is the premier man-portable surveillance and anti-armor missile system on the battlefield," said Karen Pickell, program manager for Cubic's Simulation Systems Division in Orlando, which manufactures the systems. "Cubic's Basic Skills Trainer uses realistic scenarios to train our troops in field surveillance, target recognition and acquisition, and fire mission control on the Javelin system."
Basic Skills Trainer components include a classroom trainer and student and instructor stations. Since 2001, Cubic has delivered a total of more than 2,000 of these components to the joint venture.
Source: Cubic
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