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SP's MAI Issue No. 14 | July 16-31, 2012 - Military Updates

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    Raytheon’s Exoatmospheric kill vehicle in demand

    Raytheon was awarded a $636-million development and sustainment contract to provide the Exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) to Boeing, which is the prime contractor for the groundbased mid-course defence programme.

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    Need for Seamless Integrated Planning
    By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia

    Forever a victim of its die-hard habit of sensationalising any and every bit of news, the Indian media has once again tried to give an ominous twist to the inter-service relations within the armed forces.

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    Sagem’s Hammer air-toground guided weapon tested

    French defence procurement agency DGA has successfully carried out the first qualification firing test of the laser terminal guidance version of the AASM Hammer modular air-to-ground weapon built by Sagem (Safran group).

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    Australian Defence Capability Plan

    The Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare recently released the 2012 Defence Capability Plan (DCP), which has priority projects planned for the four-year forward estimates period. The DCP contains 111 projects, or phases of projects, worth approximately $153 billion.

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    L-3 bags contract from USSOCOM

    L-3 Communications subsidiary L-3 GCS has been awarded a contract by the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to develop and manufacture very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite systems.