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Navistar Defense Begins Producing MaxxPro Dash; To Reach Full Production by Mid-October

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- Navistar International Corporation Navistar Defense has begun to produce the International MaxxPro Dash at the company’s West Point, Miss., plant with delivery of 822 units to be completed by February 2009. Full production is scheduled to begin by mid-October.

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U.S. Army Awards ICx Technologies a Contract for Future Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance System with an Estimated Value of Up to $711 Million

WASHINGTON -- ICx Technologies, a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, announced today that it has been awarded a system-engineering, analysis and integration contract by the U.S. Army Research and Development Engineering Command Acquisition Center.

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Oshkosh Defense Awarded $180 Million Contract for 1,500 Reducible-Height Armor Kits

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, has been awarded a new contract valued at more than $180 million from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command. The contract includes more than 1,500 reducible-height armor kits to be supplied to the Marine Corps for aftermarket support of the Oshkosh Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) fleet.

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First Patria APC in Hands of Slovenian Military

The Slovenian Armed Forces presented Tuesday the first of the 135 armoured personnel carriers that it has bought from Finnish contractor Patria. The vehicle will undergo a four-week validation test before the military will officially take over the vehicle.

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Kongsberg Books $15M CROWS II Contract with US Army

WASHINGTON --- Last week, the US Army issued Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS a contract valued at $15 million for additional PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Stations (RWSs) to be integrated into the Vanguard Sniper Defense System and manufactured in Johnstown, PA.

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Army Fires First Round from Cannon on FCS chassis

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. -- The Future Combat Systems program successfully fired the first artillery projectile from the manned ground vehicle non-line-of-sight cannon prototype.

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BAE Systems Launches New Variant of South Africa’s Most Successful Export Mine Protected Vehicle

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- BAE Systems has launched the newest version of its acclaimed RG series of mine resistant personnel carrier vehicle, the RG31 Mk6E, which will make its debut at the African Aerospace & Defence 2008 show in Cape Town (17-21 September).

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Poland to spend $24.6 bln for army modernization by 2018

By 2018 Poland will spend 60 billion zlotys (roughly 24.6 billion U.S. dollars) to modernize its armed forces, Defense Minister Bogdan Klich said Monday.

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New Mastiff 2 vehicles to be rolled out

A £60million contract to deliver the new generation of Mastiff vehicles - the Mastiff 2 - has been announced by UK Defence Secretary Des Browne on a visit to NP Aerospace.

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Swedish Government Decision on Archer

The Archer artillery system will soon be in service. The government has made a decision on continued development and procurement of this modified Howitzer 77B.

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Navistar Defense to Develop Lighter and More Mobile MaxxPro Variant

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- The U.S. Marine Corps today awarded Navistar Defense, LLC., a contract worth more than $752 million to produce a lighter, smaller and more mobile variant of its International® MaxxPro™ Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) family of vehicles.

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Turkey's National Main Battle Tank Project (ALTAY) started with the ceremony held at Otokar factory

The Undersecretariat for the Defence Industries of Turkey (SSM) has contracted Otokar with the designing of first National Main Battle Tank of Turkey. The signing ceremony for the ALTAY Project was realised at Otokar plant.

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Antonov delivers first Ridgbacks to Brize

The first customised Cougar 4x4 vehicles arrived at RAF Brize Norton this week, a month ahead of schedule, where the process of turning them into the new Ridgback protected vehicle will begin.

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Northrop Grumman Awarded Major Security Delivery Order

RESTON, Va. -- Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $69 million delivery order to provide advanced technologies and systems for protecting military troops, facilities and assets at forward-operating bases throughout U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), its sixty-ninth delivery order under the Integrated Base Defense Security System (IBDSS) contract.

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TAK-4 Vehicle Suspension Developed and Tested for Northrop Grumman, Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicle

RESTON, Va. and OSHKOSH -- Northrop Grumman Corporation and Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, have completed testing of a next-generation suspension for their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) family of vehicles.