AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder Artillery-locating radars like the AN/TPQ-36 and TPQ-37 Firefinder radars, and the lighter LCMR, automatically detect, track and locate enemy mortars, artillery and rocket launchers. Once incoming rounds are picked up, the radar system backtracks...
Logistics & Support Articles
Chile Expanding its Air Fleets With Hueys, C-295 Maritime Patrol
Chilean Bell 412(click to view full) Chile is a country with a lot of area to cover, ranging from long sea coasts and maritime areas to deserts and mountain ranges, in temperatures that range from hot to near-Arctic. While new F-16 C/D aircraft from the USA and...
Rapid Fire 2011-04-05: Maritime Surveillance
* Ducommun is buying St. Louis, MO-based defense electronics firm LaBarge for $340 million. * Goodrich to pay EUR 330 million for Microtecnica, a Turin, Italy-based provider of flight control actuation systems for helicopters, aircraft, missile actuation, and aircraft...
Rapid Fire 2011-04-04: AGM-114R | EMATTs
* Russia to move Navy headquarters from Moscow to St. Petersburg by 2012, the Defense Ministry said. * Where is DoD's billions of dollars in FY 2012 cybersecurity spending going? Nextgov takes a look. * Providence Equity Partners agrees to acquire SRA International, a...
Rapid Fire 2011-04-01: Mobile Counter IED
* Huntington Ingalls Industries begins trading on New York Stock Exchange after Northrop Grumman completes the $6.7 billion spinoff of shipbuilding subsidiary. * UK military's antiquated information systems for logistics supply chain management have resulted in delays...
Djibouti, Africa: Base Operations Contracting
Djibouti & region(click to view full) Djibouti is an important base for western navies, the French Foreign Legion, and the US Marines. It sits in a very strategic location, at the entrance to the Red Sea and astride the passage from the Indian Ocean to the Suez Canal....
MARSS & More: Quasi-Civilian Spy Plane Services On the Front Lines
RC-7B "Crazy Hawk" The US military has planes like F-22A stealth fighters that make a lot of news. It also has planes that make very little news, even though they play key roles in a number of conflicts around the world. One example is the RC-7B/EO-5B "Crazy Hawk"/...
Rapid Fire 2011-03-31: State-sponsored Cyber Threats
* US costs of Libyan operation total $550 million so far, according to DoD official. * Flight International provides an overview of allied air operations and assets against Libyan air defenses, and adds the destruction of a Libyan plane by a French Rafale fighter -...
EADS Solidifies MRO Position with Vector Acquisition
A week after the March 2011 revelation that EADS was in discussions with Toronto Stock Exchange listed Vector Aerospace, a support agreement with EADS subsidiary Eurocopter Holding will acquire all of Vector's issued and outstanding common shares for consideration of...

