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- Picatinny engineer pursues improved hand grenade
As far as the design of the basic hand grenade goes, essentially it has been frozen in time. The first pull-pin design with a lever and delayed fuze dates back to May 1915 and is often referred to as...
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- B-1 aircrews make history by employing laser JDAMS
B-1 Lancer aircrews from here employed laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions against moving targets during a weapon system evaluation program exercise May 14 through 16. Aircrews from the 37th Bomb...
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- Fighters to fly air defense exercise to prepare for NATO summit
Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region fighters will be active in the skies over Chicago on Friday in preparation for the next week’s NATO summit. Exercise Amalgam...
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- DR Congo army shells mutineers
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s military on Thursday shelled positions it believed were held by mutineers who have been fighting the army in the country’s east, a military source said....
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- US Navy destroyers steal the show in ‘Battleship’
US Navy sailors tend to be overlooked when it comes to Hollywood blockbusters, but the new action movie “Battleship” features American destroyers and their crews in the starring role,...
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- The top issues at the NATO summit
The war in Afghanistan, a missile shield for Europe and the pooling of military resources in times of austerity top the agenda of the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday and Monday. AFGHANISTAN US...
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- Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract for LITENING G4 Targeting Pods
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a delivery order by the Naval Air Systems Command totaling 3 million to deliver LITENING G4 targeting systems. Under the terms of the award, Northrop Grumman will...
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- New Standalone Launching System Significantly Reduces Weapons Integration Costs
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated the latest variant of its new launching system that maximizes the use of existing hardware and electronics to reduce the integration costs of weapons by more than 50...
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- Training missile falls from Army chopper in Texas: US
A US Army Apache helicopter accidentally dropped an inactive missile over central Texas, forcing dozens of homes to be evacuated, officials said Wednesday. No one was injured in the incident in which...
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- Defence Secretary Balances MOD Budget
The MOD’s budget deficit has been wiped out for the first time in a generation, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced today. Through a series of tough but necessary decisions, combined...
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