Defense Daily International articles from April 2007

Defense Daily International archives from April 2007

Lockheed Martin Coaxing Israel For Timely Move Toward C-130J Solution.
April 6, 2007... By B.C. Kessner TEL AVIV, Israel--When Israel Air Force (IAF) officials recently told visiting Lockheed Martin [LMT] executives that its C-130Es routinely had only a 50 percent mission readiness rate, it gave the executives the exact...

Lockheed Martin, Gibbs Technology To Develop Family of High Speed Amphibious Vehicles.
April 6, 2007... By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] and U.K.-based Gibbs Technologies have agreed to develop a family of military high-speed amphibious vehicles. "We've been working over the [several] months with Lockheed Martin on high speed...

Canada Picks Lockheed Martin's Sniper Targeting Pods For CF-18 Fighters.
April 6, 2007... By Michael Sirak Canada has placed an order for 36 Sniper targeting pods from Lockheed Martin [LMT] for its CF-18 Hornet multirole fighter aircraft, becoming the seventh international customer of the pod, the company said on Monday. ...

U.S. Seeks BMD Cooperation With Russia As It Eyes Anti-Missile Site In Europe.
April 6, 2007... By Michael Sirak The United States seeks to cooperate with Russia, perhaps in the sharing of ballistic missile early warning data, as it prepares to move forward with building a missile defense site in central Europe, the Department of...

Longbow Hellfire Missiles Scores 100 Percent In Japanese Defense Agency Evaluation.
April 6, 2007... Longbow International (LBI), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC], recently announced that Longbow Hellfire missiles achieved a 100 percent target hit rate in a live-fire exercise recently at Yuma Proving...

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Sees Significant Sales Increase In 2006.
April 6, 2007... Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) announced recently that in 2006 sales increased by roughly 70 percent to about $1.3 billion. The order intake was above the sales figures. "Krauss-Maffei Wegmann has successfully completed the year 2006 and...

L-3 Communications Selected For $21 million UK Project HELIX Work.
April 6, 2007... L-3 Communications [LLL] announced April 3 its Integrated Systems (L-3 IS) subsidiary has been selected by the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) for a $21.7 million contract for Project HELIX to upgrade electronic reconnaissance aircraft. ...

U.K. Could Deploy GMLRS To Afghanistan This Year.
April 13, 2007... The U.K.'s ground forces in Afghanistan are getting a state-of-the-art precision land attack rocket with twice the range of existing artillery systems. Following a series of successful trials the Guided Multiple Rocket Launch System...

Australia Plans Additional Forces For NATO ISAF.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization led International Security Assistance Force)(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... Australia pledged April 10 a significant increase to its military contribution to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. A Special Operations Task Group of about 300 personnel will shortly deploy to Oruzgan...

Obering Says U.S. Hastens European BMD On Iranian Threat, Not Politics.
April 13, 2007... By Dave Ahearn Iran is accelerating its missile development program, creating pressure for the United States to install and stand up a European ground-based missile defense (GMD) system swiftly, Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, the...

L-3 Communications Selected For $21 million U.K. Project HELIX Work.
April 13, 2007... L-3 Communications [LLL] announced April 3 its Integrated Systems (L-3 IS) subsidiary has been selected by the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) for a $21.7 million contract for Project HELIX to upgrade electronic reconnaissance aircraft. ...

Australia Sends First Active RFID Tag To Middle East.
April 13, 2007... Representatives from Australia's Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] Australia April 10 sent the first active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag to the Middle East Area of Operations. The 'Track and...

Green: U.S. Does Not Need Formal NATO Approval To Build Interceptor Sites In Europe.
April 20, 2007... By Jen DiMascio The U.S. is working with NATO but does not need the organization's formal approval to build a third missile defense site in Europe, a Defense Department official said last week during a Senate Armed Services strategic...

Canada Cancels Plans For Mobile Gun System, Turns To Tanks.
April 20, 2007... By Ann Roosevelt About three years after first expressing interest in buying General Dynamics' [GD] Mobile Gun Systems (MGS), Canada instead opted to invest nearly $600 million to revitalize its tank capability. "As a result the...

Australia Sends First Active RFID Tag System To Middle East.
April 20, 2007... Representatives from Australia's Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] Australia April 10 sent the first active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag system to the Middle East Area of Operations. The 'Track...

First V-22 Squadron To Deploy To Iraq In September.
April 20, 2007... By Geoff Fein The first Marine Corps tactical V-22 Osprey squadron will deploy to Al Asad, Iraq in September, to provide medium assault support to II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), said a service official. Additionally, 171...

U.K. Trade Minister Declines To Refer GE, Smiths Deal To Competition Commission.
April 20, 2007... Britain's Trade Minister Ian McCartney last Friday said he would accept a proposal by General Electric [GE] and Smiths Group to protect classified information and technology, as well as the strategic capabilities Smiths has in weapons...

U.K. Poised To Deploy GMLRS To Afghanistan This Year.
April 20, 2007... By Ann Roosevelt The U.K.'s ground forces in Afghanistan are getting a state-of-the-art precision land attack rocket with twice the range of existing artillery systems, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says. Following a series of...

U.K. MoD Partners with Industry To Drive Cost Out of Merlin Upgrades.(United Kingdom Ministry of Defence)
April 27, 2007... By Geoff Fein The United Kingdom is taking steps to help reduce the cost of modernizing and servicing its Merlin helicopters, including a unique arrangement in which industry is paying for the cost of putting the upgrades on the...

Obering Plans European BMD Site Sales Pitch.
April 27, 2007... By Dave Ahearn Air Force Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director, is embarking on a mission to show the European leadership and public why they need a European-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) installation....

Norway To Buy Four C-130J And Associated Equipment.
April 27, 2007... Norway is looking to spend upward of $520 million for four Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-130-J aircraft as well as associated equipment and services, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). Along with the four C-130-J...

Lawmakers Differ On Looming $310 Million Cut To European BMD.
April 27, 2007... Democratic leaders in Congress are poised to cut the $310 million that President Bush requested for eventual formation of a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in Europe, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), said. "I think they will try to cut $300...

NATO Nations Agree On Need For Missile Defense Protection.
April 27, 2007... By Ann Roosevelt NATO nations called for "indivisible security," after high-level consultations April 19, agreeing that all members' national territory must be protected from missile threats. "There is a shared desire that any U.S....

South Korea Seeking SM-2, AIM-9X Missiles.
April 27, 2007... South Korea has requested a possible sale, worth $372 million, for 210 SM-2 Block IIIA/B Tactical Standard missiles as well as associated equipment and services, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). South Korea is...

Turkey Requests Sale of 100 Raytheon Mk 54 Torpedoes.
April 27, 2007... Turkey is looking to spend upward of $105 million for 100 Mk 54 Lightweight All-Up-Round Warshot Torpedoes as well as associated equipment and services, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). In addition to the Mk 54...

Israel Wants 3,500 Mk 84 Bomb Units Worth $65 Million.
April 27, 2007... Israel is seeking the sale of 3,500 Mk 84 (Tritonal) general-purpose bomb units as well as associated equipment and services, with a potential total value of $65 million, according to Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). Along...

Singapore Demonstrates Networked Air Defense.
April 27, 2007... The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) demonstrated its Networked Air Defence capability at Tengah Air Base April 23. The new Networked Air Defence capability improves the RSAF's current multi-layered air defense system with better...