Defense Daily International articles from November 2008

Defense Daily International archives from November 2008

Sikorsky Aerospace Wins Multi-Million Blackhawk Upgrade For Colombia.
November 7, 2008... Sikorsky [UTX] Aerospace Services, the aftermarket company of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Nov. 4 announced a multi-million-dollar contract to convert six Colombian Air Force UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters into the more modern UH-60L...

FLIR Systems Announces Sea Star SAFIRE III Selected by Brazilian Navy.
November 7, 2008... FLIR Systems, Inc. (FLIR) announced Nov. 3 that it has been awarded a multi year contract from the Brazilian Navy for six Sea Star SAFIREr III infrared multi-sensor surveillance systems along with a provision for a total of 12 systems,...

QinetiQ Team Delivers Pre-Deployment Training TO U.K. Forces.
November 7, 2008... A QinetiQ-led team that includes Boeing [BA] is collectively delivering potentially life-saving pre-deployment training for UK forces before they leave for Afghanistan. The Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training (DSALT) demonstration...

Turkish JSF Supplier Opens Composites Factory.
November 14, 2008... Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), a major international supplier to Northrop Grumman [NOC] on the F-35 Lightning II program, recently opened a new facility dedicated to producing composite subassemblies for the new international,...

DCNS Plans 'Plug-and-Fight' Sub.
November 14, 2008... The French DCNS-designed SMX 24 next-generation submarine will include 'plug-and-fight' hardware enabling the boat to be tailored at will for each mission, the naval defense systems group said recently. DCNS said it has already...

General Dynamics European Land Systems Contracts For Eagle IV Vehicles With Germany.(Bundesamt fur Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung)
November 14, 2008... General Dynamics [GD] European Land Systems has entered a contract with the German Bundesamt fur Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung (BWB) for the delivery of 198 EAGLE IV protected Command and Function Vehicles, including 25 vehicles that were...

General Dynamics To Design New Saudi M1A2 Tanks.
November 14, 2008... General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded $58.3 million to design the new Saudi M1A2 (M1A2S) Abrams [GD] tank for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command awarded the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)...

U.K. Delivers Final Sniper Rifle To Troops.
November 14, 2008... The final sniper rifle is now in the hands of troops, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said Nov. 12. Snipers fill a vital and enduring role on the battlefield, in terms of intelligence gathering, target identification and eliminating high...

GKN Delivers First Future Lynx Airframe.
November 21, 2008... Britain's GKN Aerospace said it delivered the first complete, state-of- the-art, Future Lynx helicopter airframe on schedule Thursday to Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland, the design authority for the program. "Our goal has been to create a...

Germany Tests Bental's MicroBAT UAV Payload.
November 21, 2008... Israel's Bental Industries Tuesday said that the German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement assigned German UAV manufacturer EMT with testing of the MicroBAT 275, Bental's latest development of a stabilized camera system for...

Obama Pledges To Work Closely With New Heaad of NATO Parliamentary Assembly.(Jose Lello of North Atlantic Treaty Organization )
November 21, 2008... President-elect Barack Obama congratulated the outgoing President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) and pledged to "work closely" with his successor, the organization said. The president-elect sent a message to outgoing NATO PA...

Israel Continues Localizing Alarm System For Rocket Attacks.
November 21, 2008... TEL AVIV--Faced with an ongoing threat to its citizens from rocket attacks the past eight years, particularly in areas near the Gaza Strip, Israel has been able to pinpoint where the rockets will land, allowing it to localize warnings so that...

ODNI Effort Is Meeting The Challenge of Keeping Track of Ships At Sea.
November 21, 2008... Keeping track of the thousands of vessels, from fishing boats to large container ships, as they sail to and from America is a daunting challenge, but one the Office of the Director of National intelligence (ODNI) is working by coordinating...