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System Connects Afghanistan with Neighboring Countries
January 5, 2009 @ 12:00 AMJALALABAD AIRFIELD, Afghanistan --- Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Divisions 3rd Brigade Combat Team are working with Afghan citizens to install an international ring of communication that someday will span Afghanistan and connect to its neighboring countries.>> With our satellites stretched to their limits by fighting on two war fronts, the fiber ring will completely overhaul the current communication system by allowing the new system to flow very fast and efficiently, Army Maj
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Gates Approves Deployment of Aviation Brigade to Afghanistan
December 24, 2008 @ 12:00 AMWASHINGTON --- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has approved the deployment of an Army aviation brigade to Afghanistan this spring, a Defense Department official said today
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Sea Kings Fly High with New £258m Engine Contract
December 23, 2008 @ 12:00 AM> MoD has awarded Rolls-Royce Defence Aerospace a 258 million contract to support the engines on its fleet of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Sea King helicopters.>> The 10-year agreement with Rolls-Royce will provide a guaranteed delivery of the Gnome turboshaft engines for the Sea King fleet and covers engine support including the repair and overhaul of engines, provision of spares as well as delivery to MoD sites
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Get Ready for the Beast
December 22, 2008 @ 12:00 AMA beast of a vehicle will be unleashed on operations when MOD converts more than 100 Broncos, from Singapore Technologies Kinetics, into Warthog armoured vehicles for the Armed Forces in Afghanistan.>> Bronco will arrive in the UK in 2009 to undergo transformation to become the armoured, all-terrain vehicle Warthog replacing the Viking in Afghanistan
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Transition Command Helps to Build Afghan Air Corps
December 22, 2008 @ 12:00 AMKABUL, Afghanistan --- The Afghan National Army Air Corps has received the first three of six Mil Mi-35 attack helicopters, adding to its growing capabilities.>> The helicopters, donated by the Czech Republic, were refurbished by members of Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan
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Hutton: Snatch Essential to Operations
December 17, 2008 @ 12:00 AM>The Snatch Land Rovers lack of protection has been blamed for the death of 37 British soldiers, but despite a public campaign MoD will not hold a public inquiry into why it was kept in operation for so long. (MoD photo)Defence Secretary John Hutton has announced today that he will not be instituting a public inquiry into the use of Snatch Land Rovers by the British military on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq
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New CSBA Study Tracks War Costs, Funding Mechanisms
December 16, 2008 @ 12:00 AMThe Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments today released a new report Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Other Military Operations Through 2008 and Beyond.>> In this report, Steven Kosiak, Vice President for Budget Studies at CSBA offers a comprehensive picture of the direct budgetary costs of US military operations conducted since 2001
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Gates: Procurement System Must Be More Responsive to Current Requirements
December 16, 2008 @ 12:00 AMWASHINGTON --- The military procurement system needs to broaden its focus beyond high-end, high-tech systems so its better prepared to meet warfighters current requirements, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates wrote in the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs magazine
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Defence Committee Highlights Significant Increase In Cost of Operations In Afghanistan
December 16, 2008 @ 12:00 AMThe Government's forecast for the costs of military operations in Afghanistan in this financial year reveals a significant increase compared to the last financial year, says a Report from the House of Commons Defence Committee published today (Winter Supplementary Estimates 2008-09, HC 52).>> Meanwhile, the forecast operational costs for Iraq have remained broadly the same, and have even increased in one or two areas, despite the expected drawdown early in 2009
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Renault Trucks Defense Delivers Logistic and Tactical Vehicles to NATO
December 16, 2008 @ 12:00 AMAccording to the contract signed recently with NATO, Renault Trucks Defense is delivering the Sherpa 3 tactical vehicles as well as the heavy logistic trucks: Kerax 4x4, kerax 6x6 and 8x8 manufactured at Bourg-en-Bresse factory.>> Taking into account the operational urgency, those vehicles will be sent to the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan
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Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...