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Navy shipbuilder
Huntington Ingalls (NYSE:HII) announced Tuesday that the United States Navy has ordered two REMUS 300 unmanned underwater vehicles to support their critical national security missions. No price was stated for the order.
The U.S. Army Clears Full-Rate Production Of Northrop Grumman’s CIRCM (Common Infrared Countermeasures)
The U.S. Army Clears Full-Rate Production Of Northrop Grumman’s CIRCM (Common Infrared Countermeasures)
An aircrew from 3rd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division taxis out of the Redstone Test Center Airfield at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. to an air assault mission during operational testing of the CIRCM. In the box: one of the jammers of the Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) system. (Photos: U.S. Army/ Northrop Grumman)
The new CIRCM system will equip all the service’s current helicopters, beginning from the UH-60M Black Hawk, and the Future Vertical Lift helicopters in development.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 03, 2021 at 2:43 PM
Martin UAS V-BATs
WASHINGTON: The Army is asking industry if it can accelerate delivery of a new scout drone, FTUAS, to replace the aging RQ-7 shadow after a successful year of field tests of four competing prototypes, culminating in a rainy-day “rodeo” at Fort Benning.
It was “a great infantryman day, a cold, rainy day where we couldn’t have launched the Shadow in that weather,” Col. Scott Anderson, project manager for drones, said. “All those systems launched and flew really spectacularly in that kind of weather and got great feedback from the soldiers.