Post Tagged with: "combat system"
Barracuda SSN: DCNS Opens Combat System Shore Integration Facility
Over 100 people, including DCNS employees and representatives of the DGA, the French Navy and partners, attended a ceremony at the Toulon naval base on Wednesday 28 November to inaugurate the combat system shore integration facility for the Suffren, the first nuclear-powered attack submarine of the new Barracuda type. The combat system is the submarine’s [...]
Aegis Combat System Installed on Two New US Navy Destroyers
The U.S. Navy, supported by Lockheed Martin, has installed the Aegis Combat System aboard two new Navy destroyers, USS Gravely (DDG 107) and USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109). The Aegis Combat Systems aboard the ships have also been certified as fully operational through the tests known as Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trials. During the trials, [...]
PEO Ground Combat Systems talks weapon systems modernization
WARREN, Mich.: Scott Davis, Program Executive Officer for Ground Combat Systems, and his management team led the PEO GCS panel discussion for industry leaders Tuesday at the 2010 NDIA Combat Vehicle Conference. Davis recognized the valuable contributions of the industrial base and invited leaders to accept the challenge of developing effective, efficient, and affordable systems [...]
FELIN Systems for France’s 1st Infantry Regiment
The French Army’s new FELIN combat systems were delivered to Sarrebourg’s 1st infantry Regiment at the end of August 2010. The soldiers will be outfitted with the mass-produced materiel progressively from the beginning of October to mid November. Sarrebourg’s 1st Infantry Regiment is the French army’s first unit to receive the mass-produced FELIN system. This [...]
Australian Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Prototypes Delivered
ARLINGTON, Va.: BAE Systems, through its U.S. Combat Systems business, along with partners Navistar Defense and ArvinMeritor, delivered three right hand drive operation configured Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) prototypes in a ceremony today in West Point, Mississippi. Each of these prototypes will be sent to Australia for durability testing that mutually supports both U.S. [...]
Canada’s Halifax Class Combat Systems Passes Key Design Review
OTTAWA, ONTARIO: Lockheed Martin Canada completed a successful System Design Review (SDR) with the Canadian Navy, marking a major milestone toward modernizing the combat systems on the Navy’s 12 Halifax-class multi-mission frigates. The SDR, a government-mandated review of a contractor’s progress and planning for all elements of a program, covered in detail all of Lockheed [...]
Contracts Signed for Air Warfare Destroyer Combat System
Minister for Defence the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP, today welcomed an announcement by the AWD Alliance of the signing of a further two contracts for provision of elements of the combat system for Australia’s three Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWDs) during his visit to Techport South Australia. “These latest contract signings mean that the [...]
S.Korean AEGIS Destroyer Detects N. Korean Rocket
The country’s first Aegis destroyer, Sejong the Great, proved its might by successfully detecting the launch of a North Korean long-range rocket that was fired off on April 5. “Sejong the Great had been stationed in the East Sea to monitor North Korea’s rocket activities and it successfully detected yesterday’s rocket launch,” an official said [...]



