Teledyne’s subsidiary Teledyne Brown Engineering has received a $79.6 million task order from the US Army to design and build flexible target missiles for test and evaluation purposes, the company announced on 15 June.
The contract will see company develop realistic-threat ballistic target missiles, known as zombie targets, for use in testing advance missile defence systems. Zombie targets are manufactured or recreated in part from dead legacy government-owned components that have reached the end of their useful life or may be subject to demilitarisation. In this way they provide a low-cost solution with threat-representative capabilities necessary to test the effectiveness of missile defence assets.
Jan Hess, president of Teledyne Brown Engineering, said: ‘A great deal of our company’s legacy is built upon leading and supporting missile defence programmes, including target and countermeasures development, and the test and evaluation of complex systems. Given current and emerging threats to global security, we are proud to provide these systems that will help support the defence of our nation and our allies.’
The new Bushmasters will be used by the Australian Army’s second long-range fires regiment, to be based at the Edinburgh Defence Precinct in South Australia as part of the 10th Fires Brigade.
The British Army’s Land Mobility Programme (LMP) has struggled to make it to competition but there are hopes progress will be made this year.
The aid stations are designed to be mounted onto trucks, such as the Rheinnetall HX family of vehicles, and will be in ballistic protected and unprotected versions.
The contract is for transmissions for the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (JSMC) in Lima, Ohio for new tanks and overhaul and repair activities at Anniston Army Depot.
Jerusalem’s air defence capabilities procurement efforts will receive up to $190 million.
In the medium-term Lithuania has committed US$1.3 billion which includes Javelin ant-tank missiles, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), Black Hawk helicopters, missile systems and missiles.
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