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TEWKSBURY, Mass., April 7, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Navy successfully completed initial "lightoff" testing of the Dual Band Radar. The Dual Band Radar is an integrated active phased-array radar suite composed of the X-band AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar and the S-band Volume Search Radar, both of which radiated at high power during lightoff at the Navy's Engineering Test Center, Wallops Island, Va. "This is an enormous milestone for Raytheon and the...
TEWKSBURY, Mass., Dec. 18, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a not-to-exceed $3.3 billion order to provide advanced Patriot air and missile defense capability, whole life support and training for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/raytheon/36487/ Raytheon and teammate Lockheed Martin have worked with the U.S. and UAE governments during the past year to develop this agreement. The U.S....
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that the Nulka Active Missile Decoy System, which uses Aerojet's solid rocket motor, has reached the 100th installation milestone on a U.S. Navy ship. For this achievement, the Nulka system received the honor of 'Defence Project of the Year' in the Major Product category, by the Australian Defence Magazine (ADM). The ADM annual defense industry award recognizes Australia's...
LIBERTY LAKE, Wash., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SprayCool(R), a recognized leader in the development of advanced thermal management and environmental isolation products for the military, announced today that one of its electronics enclosures successfully completed its flight test program in brown-out conditions as part of Sierra Nevada Corporation's Helicopter Autonomous Landing System (HALS). The SprayCool liquid-cooled enclosure, mounted on the front of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, is...
3VR Security, Inc., the pioneer of searchable surveillance, today announced that Red Hawk, A UTC Fire & Security Company, has joined the 3VR National Network of Certified Dealers. Red Hawk is an integrated security solutions provider with 28 branch locations across the U.S. and approximately 1000 employees. Red Hawk's extensive security knowledge and state-of-the-art technology offerings make it one of the leading providers of security services to financial institutions in the U.S....
YAVNE, Israel - Rafi Yoeli has an unconventional solution to saving people from burning high-rises or rescuing soldiers trapped behind enemy lines: a flying car.Yoeli already has gotten a rudimentary vehicle off the ground - about three feet - and hopes to see a marketable version of his X-Hawk flying car by 2010.Although his dream might seem far-fetched, Textron Inc. (TXT)'s Bell Helicopters is taking a serious look, teaming with Yoeli's privately held Urban Aeronautics to explore X-Hawk's...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A missile fell off a truck and onto a New York highway on Friday, but the weapon did not have a warhead and posed no danger, police said. WCBS radio reported it was a Tomahawk cruise missile. Police and fire department officials could not confirm that. The cargo came loose when the truck carrying it collided with another truck on a motorway in the Bronx. "It was a military-type missile but it was inert. There was no danger and no one was harmed," a police spokesman...
By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon told Congress on Monday that national security needs made it necessary to continue a $6 billion Northrop Grumman Corp. unmanned surveillance drone program, despite major cost overruns. But Pentagon acquisitions chief Ken Krieg told lawmakers the Global Hawk program would be restructured and production would be limited to no more than five aircraft per year until initial operational tests were completed. "Global Hawk is providing...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department said Friday it had cleared an upgrade of United Technologies Corp.'s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, launching a process experts have said could be worth billions of dollars over time. The top weapons-buying panel authorized the Army to develop and test UH-60M helicopters using funds budgeted for fiscal 2007 and 2008, according to a Pentagon memorandum signed by Kenneth Krieg, the under secretary of defense for acquisition. The panel...
