Raytheon BBN Technologies will provide its Boomerang shooter detection systems to the UK Ministry of Defence. BBN is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company.
Through the contract with UK distributor Maxord Ballistics Limited, Raytheon BBN Technologies will deliver Boomerang perimeter defense and vehicle systems to alert troops to the location of incoming small arms fire. Boomerang immediately alerts troops to incoming hostile fire and pinpoints the location of the enemy shooter.
Source: Raytheon
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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