Argon ST announced that it was awarded a contract by the U.S
The U.S
Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that it has received a contract from a U.S
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, unveiled a full scale mock-up of the TUHP 149 helicopter at IDEF 2009 in Istanbul today. The TUHP 149 is the AgustaWestland candidate for the Turkish Utility Helicopter Programme (TUHP)
Kongsberg Gruppen has signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Procurement Division for the first phase in the development of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM). The contract has a financial framework of MNOK 166, and is scheduled for completion within 18 months
Raytheon Company has received a $19 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for development and demonstration of technology to detect and locate buried land mines and tunnels. n Raytheon's plan, a laser radar vibration sensor, or ladar vibrometer, would reveal hidden targets by measuring ground-surface vibrations and use electronic instructions for calculation and processing known as algorithms to interpret the information
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Griffon Corporation announced today that its Radar Systems Division received a $99.3M follow-on order from Lockheed Martin for the purchase of AN/APS-147 Multi Mode Radar System and subsystem spares
Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz
BVT Surface Fleet, the maritime Joint Venture between BAE Systems and VT Group, have announced that they will build, integrate, test and commission (up to Sea Trials) an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and undertake considerable further work on another, at its facilities on the Clyde in Glasgow. The two 90m vessels for the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard are part of a £150M+ contract signed in April 2007 between VT Shipbuilding and the Government of Republic of Trinidad & Tobago (GORTT)
- India successfully test-fired the land version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile and said it was ready for induction in the army. This was the third test-firing of the missile, developed under an Indo-Russian joint venture, since January