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JHMCS: Fighter Pilots’ “Look & Shoot” Helmets Changing Aerial Warfare

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/fighter-pilot-look-shoot-helmets-upgrade-ups-downs-01271/

(click to view larger) In the 1970s, fighter aircraft began to appear with Head-Up Displays (HUD) that projected key information, targeting crosshairs etc. onto a seemingly clear piece of glass. HUDs allowed pilots to keep their eyes in the sky, instead…

Double-Jointed & Popular: The Bv Family of Infantry Support Vehicles

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/doublejointed-popular-the-bv-family-of-infantry-support-vehicles-updated-02656/

A Viking comes ashore The BvS10 is the successor to the wildly popular Bv206, 11,000 of which have been sold to 40 countries around the world - including the USA (M978). Readers may have seen these vehicles elsewhere, too, as a number of Bv206s have…

Dutch XA-188 Pasi Wheeled APCs for Estonia

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Dutch-XA-188-Pasi-Wheeled-APCs-for-Estonia-06602/

Before Patria Oyj introduced the popular AMV 8x8 wheeled APC, Finland's XA-180 Pasi family of wheeled APCs was sold to a number of Nordic countries, as well as the UN and to several countries with UN peacekeeping missions. In 2004,

AMRAAM: Deploying & Developing America’s Medium-Range Air-Air Missile

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/amraam-deploying-developing-americas-mediumrange-airair-missile-updated-02512/

AIM-120C from F-22A (click for test missile zoom) Raytheon's AIM-120 Advanced, Medium-Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) has become the world market leader for medium range air-to-air missiles, and is also beginning to make inroads within land-based…

Joint Common Missile: It Lives!

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/joint-common-missile-it-lives-01719/

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EADS ParaLander Enters Precision Paradrop Market

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/eads-paralander-enters-precision-paradrop-market-04178/

"JPADS: Making Precision Air-Drops A Reality" covered efforts underway in America and elsewhere to create and use systems that used advanced guidance and flight control software to turn paradropped supplies into precision-targeted deliveries from high

MQ-8 Fire Scout VTUAV Program: By Land or By Sea

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-fire-scout-vtuav-program-by-land-and-by-sea-updated-01316/

A helicopter UAV is very handy for naval ships, and for armies who can't always depend on runways. The USA's RQ/MQ-8 Fire Scout Unmanned Aerial Vehicle has blazed a trail of firsts in this area, but its history is best described as "colorful." The

Kuwait to Upgrade its Spada Air-Defense Systems

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/kuwait-to-upgrade-its-spada-airdefense-systems-03128/

Kuwait has awarded MBDA a 3-year, EUR 65 million (currently about $86 million) contract to upgrade the Aspide air defense missile batteries deployed by the Kuwaiti air defence brigade. The units and missiles will be upgraded to SPADA 2000 configuration,…

Pilum High: The Javelin Anti-Armor Missile

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/pilum-high-the-javelin-anti-armor-missile-03440/#more-3440

The FGM-148 Javelin missile system aimed to solve 2 key problems experienced by American forces. One was a series of disastrous experiences in Vietnam, trying to use 66mm M72 LAW rockets against old Soviet tanks. A number of replacement options like

South Africa Orders IRIS-T Missiles

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/South-Africa-Orders-IRIS-T-Missiles-04948/

IRIS-T on Gripen(click to view larger) IRIS-T (InfraRed Imaging System - Tail/thrust vector controlled) emerged after Germany pulled out of the joint US-UK-German ASRAAM program, following testing with its "new" East German MiG-29s and their AA-11/R-73…

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