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| 01.12.2009 |
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Boeing Fixes U.S. Navy Satellite
The Boeing Co. [BA] reconfigured an on-orbit Navy satellite, adding 30 percent more communications capability. The satellite, the 11th in the Ultra-High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) series built by Boeing, was launched in 2003 and supports the Navy global...
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| 01.12.2009 |
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KEI Cold Launch Testing Begins
The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) began cold-launch system testing essential for mobile, global and flexible missile defense, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. A key part of this system -- the solid propellant gas generator -- was successfully tested...
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| 01.12.2009 |
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Glitch Delays Tactical Satellite Launch
The planned Tactical Satellite-3 launch set for later this month will be postponed because an avionics component malfunctioned, the Air Force announced. Earlier, the launch had been set for last summer. That latest delay will provide experts time to work with...
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| 01.12.2009 |
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Obama: Iran Could Ignite Regional Nuclear Arms Race
Iran is attempting to build a nuclear weapon that could ignite an atomic arms race raging across the Middle East, President-elect Obama warned. He also said Iran sponsors terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas has been launching hundreds...
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| 01.05.2009 |
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Lockheed Gains $371.6 Million Contract For GMLRS Program
The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $371.6 million firm fixed price contract for further work in the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System...
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| 01.05.2009 |
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Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE
The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] worked with the...
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| 01.05.2009 |
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NLOS System Precision Attack Missile Completes Third Test
A Non Line-of-Sight-Launch System's Precision Attack Missile completed the third guided test flight for the weapon class. NetFires LLC, a joint venture between Raytheon Co. [RTN] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unit Missiles and Fire Control, completed the...
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| 12.22.2008 |
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Raytheon Gains Up To $3.3 Billion Patriot Order For UAE
The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order for advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] worked with the...
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| 12.22.2008 |
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NPOESS System Completes Review For Preparatory Project
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project completed a mission operations readiness (MOR) review, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The largest review of the overall NPOESS configuration to date...
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| 12.15.2008 |
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Paveway 4 Enters Service On U.K. Harriers
The Paveway 4 weapon system completed all evaluation activities, clearing it to enter service with the U.K. Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Harrier GR9 aircraft, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. Following demonstration of capability trials at the U.S. Navy Air...
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| 12.15.2008 |
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Standard Missile-2s Launched In Ship Trials
The Navy fired seven Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA anti-air warfare missiles as part of ongoing U.S. Navy shipbuilder trials and operational tests, Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced. Four of the intercepts were conducted by the guided missile...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Iran Fires 'Sea-To-Sea' Missile In Exercises
The Iranian navy launched a medium-range "sea-to-sea" missile during naval exercises in the Sea...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Report: Insurgents Have Scores Of Surface-To-Air Missiles
Terrorist insurgents in Iraq have scores of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), a new report shows. In more than two years since October 2006, at least 121 SAMs have been discovered in raids on illicit weapons caches, according to a new report from the Federation...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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MKV Aces Test At Hover Facility
The Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) ballistic missile interceptor system that can take out multiple enemy warheads passed a test recently, the Missile Defense Agency announced. Multiple warheads are a major challenge. Russia in May test-launched its new RS-24...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Chilton: U.S Must Replace Nuclear Warheads
The United States must replace and upgrade its nuclear warheads or risk seeing the U.S. nuclear deterrent deteriorate and fail, according to Gen. Kevin Chilton, commander of the strategic command. "I need reliable delivery programs" such as...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Report: Weapons Of Mass Destruction Pose Increasing Terrorist Risk To Nation
There is more than a 50 percent chance that an attack with a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) will be perpetrated by the end of 2013, a threat emanating from terrorists and rogue states, a 160-page commission report disclosed. Worse, the threat is expanding...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Analyst: Iran To Have Operational ICBM Within A Couple Of Years
Missile Defense System Needed Urgently Iran will have an operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "in a couple of years," an analyst predicted, while noting that Iran also is working toward building a nuclear weapon. "Iran is...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Bolton: U.S. Has Lost Attempt To Block Iran From Developing Nuclear Weapons
Only Possibility Of Blocking Iranian Nukes Is That Israel Might Launch Military Strike European Missile Defense System Would Become Final Bulwark Against Nuclear Iran The United States has failed to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons, and the...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Missile Defense System Scores Major Success
The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system successfully killed a target missile in a realistic test using multiple radars, showing that the Missile Defense Agency and its contractors have developed a system that can defeat incoming long-range enemy...
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| 12.08.2008 |
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Missile Defense Systems Assailed In Think Tank Report
Report: Kill European Missile Defense And Airborne Laser; Halt Procurement, Deployment Of Aegis, GMD, THAAD, Patriot; And End Streamlined Missile Defense Budget System The multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) program has come under attack in a...
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