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  Bunker Hill, Revisited: CG-52’s Modernization

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/31m-to-bae-for-cg-52-modernization-04604/

  USS Bunker Hill, a CG-47 Ticonderoga Class AEGIS cruiser, was launched in 1985. The Ticonderoga Class remains critical to American seapower, functioning as the fleet's most powerful anti-air defense, and contributing substantial anti-ship and

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  EADS ParaLander Enters Precision Paradrop Market

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/eads-paralander-enters-precision-paradrop-market-04178/

  "JPADS: Making Precision Air-Drops A Reality" covered efforts underway in America and elsewhere to create and use systems that used advanced guidance and flight control software to turn paradropped supplies into precision-targeted deliveries from high

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  Britain’s VC10 Tankers Hit “Through-Life” End of Through-Life Support

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/britains-vc10-tankers-moving-toward-new-support-model-03382/

  As of 2002, the RAF had 19 of its 4-engined VC10 aerial tankers in service. These sleek aircraft with the unusual engine arrangement form the backbone of its aerial tanker fleet, and continued to do so for about another decade until the new Airbus A330

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  $96M to DS2 for LAIRCM Aircraft Defense System Support

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/96M-to-DS2-for-LAIRCM-Aircraft-Defense-System-Support-06289/

  Defense Support Services (DS2), a Greenville, SC-based venture between Lockheed Martin and Day & Zimmermann, received a $96 million contract to provide support for the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure (LAIRCM) System. Northrop Grumman's

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  Japan Orders Upgrades for its 4 E-767 AWACS

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/japan-orders-4-e767-awacs-radar-mission-upgrade-kits-for-147m-02215/

  In May 2006, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Japan of four sets of Airborne Early Warning (AEW) and Command, Control and Communications (C3) mission equipment/Radar System Improvement

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  Black Hawks for Brunei

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Black-Hawks-for-Brunei-07207/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=did&utm_medium=textlink&utm

  Thanks to its location on the oil-rich Island of Borneo, which it shares with Indonesia and Malaysia, the State of Brunei Darussalam is best known to most people as a frequent Guinness Book of World Records entry, with its Sultan as the world's richest…

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  Black Hawks for Brunei

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Black-Hawks-for-Brunei-07207/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=did&utm_medium=textlink&utm_term=Black%20Hawks%20for%20Brunei&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=did&utm_content=Black+Hawks+for+Brunei+%7C+LPD+22+%7C+PAC-

  Thanks to its location on the oil-rich Island of Borneo, which it shares with Indonesia and Malaysia, the State of Brunei Darussalam is best known to most people as a frequent Guinness Book of World Records entry, with its Sultan as the world's richest…

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  M1 Abrams Tanks for Iraq

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/M1-Abrams-Tanks-for-Iraq-05013/

  Tanks often decide battles, unless aircraft are around. Iraq had a lot of unfriendly visits by the USAF from 1991-2003, which left the largest armored force in the region looking to rebuild their armored corps from zero. Early donations and salvage fielded…

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  IAR What IAR: The USMC’s SAW Substitution

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/IAR-What-IAR-The-USMCs-SAW-Substitution-05240

  The US Marines have been using the M249 5.56mm light machine gun since 1984. Many were worn from use, and at 15-17 pounds empty, these belt-fed weapons are rather heavy. They can be more hindrance than help in some of the close-quarters urban warfare

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  The US Navy’s Mobile Landing Platform Ships (MLP)

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/The-US-Navys-Mobile-Landing-Platform-Ships-06525/

  The Montford Point Class Mobile Landing Platform is intended to be a new class and type of auxiliary support ship, as part of the US Navy's Maritime Prepositioning Force of the Future (MPF-F) program. They're intended to serve as a transfer station or…

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