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LEMV Airship Sold Back to Manufacturer for a Song, and Future Data

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Rise-of-the-Blimps-The-US-Armys-LEMV-06438/

The rise of modern terrorism, sharply increasing costs to recruit and equip professional soldiers, and issues of energy security, are forcing 2 imperatives on modern armies. Modern militaries need to be able to watch wide areas for very long periods of…

Raytheon’s Standard Missile Naval Defense Family (SM-1 SM-6)

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/raytheons-standard-missile-naval-defense-family-updated-02919/

SM-2 Launch, DDG-77 (click to view larger) Variants of the SM-2 Standard missile are the USA's primary fleet defense anti-air weapon, and serve with 13 navies worldwide. The most common variant is the RIM-66K-L/ SM-2 Standard Block IIIB, which entered…

Umkhonto Missiles to Equip Visby Corvettes?

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/umkhonto-missiles-to-equip-visby-corvettes-03253/

Forecast International reports that Sweden has decided to equip its 5 Visby Class stealth corvettes with Denel's Umkhonto-IR anti-aircraft missile system (and see PDF brochure) at a total cost of about SEK 1 billion (currently about $149.6 million). The

Bunker Hill, Revisited: CG-52’s Modernization

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/31m-to-bae-for-cg-52-modernization-04604/

USS Bunker Hill, a CG-47 Ticonderoga Class AEGIS cruiser, was launched in 1985. The Ticonderoga Class remains critical to American seapower, functioning as the fleet's most powerful anti-air defense, and contributing substantial anti-ship and

NCADE: An ABM AMRAAM – Or Something More?

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/ncade-an-abm-amraam-03305/

A lot has been written in recent years about the improvements in air-air missiles. Short-range air-air missiles (SRAAMs) have received particular attention due to their vastly improved wide-angle seekers, computer processor improvements driven by

France’s Rafale Fighters to get F3R Upgrades, PDL-NG pods

https://web.archive.org/web/20140118143350/http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Frances-Rafale-Fighters-Au-Courant-in-Time-05991/

Dassault Rafale(click for cutaway view) Will Dassault's fighter become a fashionably late fighter platform that builds on its parent company's past successes - or just (Last update: 2014-01-12 22:39:15 GMT)

Radar Refits: F-15s Looking for the AESA Edge

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f-15s-looking-for-the-aesa-edge-04044/

Most F-15C Eagle air superiority fighters use APG-63 radars, passive arrays mounted on a movable swashplate. While upgrades over the years have improved them, a new generation of radar technologies has appeared. With cruise missile defense rising in

France’s Future SSNs: The Barracuda Class

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/frances-future-ssns-the-barracuda-class-02902/

SSN Barracuda cutaway In December 2006, France's Defense Ministry awarded a contract for nuclear-propelled fast attack submarines to state-owned warship builder DCN and nuclear energy group Areva-TA. The contract's total value could be as high as EUR…

IAR What IAR: The USMC’s SAW Substitution

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/IAR-What-IAR-The-USMCs-SAW-Substitution-05240

The US Marines have been using the M249 5.56mm light machine gun since 1984. Many were worn from use, and at 15-17 pounds empty, these belt-fed weapons are rather heavy. They can be more hindrance than help in some of the close-quarters urban warfare

A Spookier Spooky, 30mm at a Time? Nope.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/a-spookier-spooky-30mm-at-a-time-03023/

In 2006 GD was contracted to repackage A-10 ammo for AC-130 Gunships. As is so often the case, there's a story behind the story. The USA's fearsome AC-130U "Spooky" Hercules gunships were having their old 40mm

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