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Articles in October 2005 issue of Armada International

• NG's N-G GH enroute.(Digest)
• Hard shell: to improve survivability armoured fighting vehicles will get heavier before they get lighter. The US Army's claim that its 70-tonne M1 Abrams is the 'most survivable main battle tank in the world' is being tested each day in Iraq. Yet the army
  by Kemp, Ian
• Savi Technology.(Business)
• Northrop Grumman, Eads and Indra have teamed to pursue the systems engineering and integration contract as part of the Nato Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence programme.(Business)
• Thales.(Business)
• MH-60R lands at new home.(Digest)
• From brick to chip: the objective of providing the individual dismounted soldier with integrated computing solutions is to generate a hub through which other electronic systems and information are managed, keyed and exploited from a single point on the ma
  by Baddeley, Adam
• Flir Systems.(Business)
• Saab Avitronics.(Business)
• EDO.(Business)
• First SCA radio speaks.(Digest)
• Europe carries the tail light again: taking an eagle eye's view across the world map of unmanned aircraft, it only takes a few seconds to realise that in spite of its technological capabilities, Europe is the slow coach in terms of drone development and n
  by Biass, Eric H.
• Barco.(Business)
• Northrop Grumman will supply 108 additional global positioning and inertial navigation systems for the US Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor--these to fulfil critical navigation functions of the aircraft.(Business)
• GPS x 2 from NavCom.(Digest)
• Remote control overhead.(Digest)
• Weapons for whirlybirds.(Rotorcraft: armament)
  by Braybrook, Roy
• Rockwell Collins.(Business)
• Big deals in short.(Business)
• CZ Gripen delivered.(Digest)
• X-Craft gets her water wings.(Digest)
• 120 mm pop-&-scoot mortars: while the idea of mounting mortars on vehicles is not new, the current trend is to develop systems that increase their efficiency by providing a higher degree of automation both in terms of loading and laying. Munitions, fo
  by Biass, Eric H.
• Northrop Grumman will develop its Viper Strike as a stand-off munition for release from the AC-130 gunships of the US Special Operations Command (Socom).(Business)
• BAE Systems.(Business)
• DGCS X-Sys delivered.(Digest)
• CWCEC keeps cool.(Digest)
• A380 of course but a lot more ... there is no doubt that this year's show was stolen by the new Airbus that had made its maiden flight only a few weeks earlier and, although nothing very spectacular was to be announced on the military aircraft front, ther
  by Bias, E.H.; Hooton, E.R.; Keggler, J.
• Saab.(Business)
• Northrop Grumman has named its team of partner companies for the US Army's Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 Services--a $20 billion programme in support of US Army information technology services and solutions worldwide.(Business)
• Air laser given C for sea.(Digest)
• I-Vision for the head.(Digest)
• Return of the one-o-five: the 105 mm gun might be regarded as the shooting star of the 20th century--its passage across the skies being a brief blaze of glory followed by oblivion. Yet, far from fading away, this ordinance is flaring back and becoming att
  by Hooton, E.R.
• CAE has received a C$ 4.5 million award from Spar Aerospace to provide a C-130H part-task trainer (PTT) and three CAE Simtinity C-130H flight management system trainers (FMST) to the Royal New Zealand Air Force.(Business)
• Crimson Trace.(Business)
• Stronger than steel!(Digest)
• HMS Richmond beds down.(Digest)
• Pathways to enlightenment: for any mission to be successful real-time situational awareness is must. Yet being overloaded with data is akin to having to carry too much equipment--it will only serve to slow progression and help to confuse the warfighter. C
  by Keggler, Johnny
• Sectra.(Business)
• Lockheed Martin.(Business)
• RCWS tests North & South.(Digest)
• Titan Bes advancing.(Digest)
• General Atomics Aeronautical System.(Business)
• Eurotorp.(Business)
• Northrop Grumman.(Business)
• SE-Vision test flights.(Digest)
• NG drone on target.(Digest)
• General Dynamics.(Business)
• Teledyne Brown Engineering.(Business)
• Rolls-Royce.(Business)