Successful JASSM flight spurs renewed marketing push

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Lockheed Martin Corp, with the Joint Program Office, conducted the first successful power flight of the AGM-158 Joint-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) in New Mexico on Nov 23, 1999. With JASSM's successful test flight, the Air Force is considering to increase its requirement from Lockheed Martin to 4,000 rounds from the previous' 2,000 rounds. Meanwhile, the company is also marketing JASSM to the Australian Dept of Defense.

Air-to-Surface Missiles, Lockheed Martin Corp.

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Intercept success for ESSM, AIM-9X

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The Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) naval surface-to-air missile and the AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missile proved to be effective durin their respective test flights. The ESSM hit a BQM-34S Frisbee target drone during its first guided flight in New Mexico in Mar 2000. Two weeks later in California, the AIM-9X that was fired from an F/A-18C fighter aircraft successfully intercepted a QF-4 drone.

Missiles

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Special forces introduce submersible multiband secure handheld radios

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Racal Communications Inc's AN/PRC-148 Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radio (MBITR) will be used by the US Special Operations Command to replace the AN/PRC-68 and AN/PRC-126. The company's original contract, which required 15 units for delivery, was expanded to supply 35 more radios for similar evaluation by the US Marine Corps. MBITR features a voice and traffic data range of 30MHz-512MHz for both AM and FM frequencies.

Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Military Communications Eqp, Military communications equipment, Racal Communications Inc.

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