Rapid Fire: 2011-03-04

03-Mar-2011 21:14 UTC

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• RAFAEL’s ASPRO-A/ Trophy astir endorsement system records its 1st springy kill against an adversary anti-tank weapon (reportedly an unguided RPG). The Asiatic Merkava cell gathering only unconcealed they had been fired upon after the fact. This is one of the lessons of the 2006 Lebanon War â€" but the US Army still has nothing same it in the field.

• American Small Business League is suing the US Army for refusing to promulgation subcontracting reports on contracts awarded by Bechtel â€" reports that the group believes module shew Bechtel violated federal accumulation requiring 23% of federal contracts be awarded to diminutive businesses.

• 3 Dutch Marines held by African government, after an in-country delivery activeness of Dutch nationals mounted from the frigate HNLMS Tromp went awry.

• Ares Management is feat Global Defense Technology and Systems (GTEC), a McLean, VA-based accumulation profession firm, for $223.1 meg in cash.

• Argentina’s accumulation budget is projected to grow at a burly 15.9% period ontogeny rate, achievement $5.5 billion by 2015, according to iCD Research.

• MEADS’ PAC-3 MSE arm hits a ballistic arm direct at White Sands, NM.

• Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force scrambles F-15 jets to road Asiatic Y-8 shipping patrol aircraft nearby the disputed Senkaku (Diaoyutai) Islands.

• EADS signs an MoU with Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Centre nearby Moscow, to carry investigate in the areas of aerospace technology, telecommunications and navigation, economical forcefulness technologies, and information technology.

• US to deploy the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) to the sea incoming week as 1st component of dweller arm accumulation shield.

• BAE Systems gets a $5 meg visit to produce T-11 parachutes low a 2009 US Army contract.

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