Post Tagged with: "Weapons systems"
HELLFIRE team sustaining fight, cutting costs
As equipment is transitioned out of Iraq, perhaps none is more critical than the HELLFIRE missile system. Since the drawdown began, more than 750 HELLFIRE missiles have been shipped to the 402nd Army Field Support Battalion-Qatar, where they are serviced, tested and repaired by the HELLFIRE Forward Test and Repair Facility. The HELLFIRE team returned [...]
India and Russia to Step Up Defense Ties
In a spirit of a cooperation and understanding, India and Russia held their annual meeting to review the defence ties in Moscow on Tuesday (04 Oct 2011) and expressed “readiness to take all necessary measures to further expand the cooperation on a mutually beneficial basis.” In a Protocol signed after the Eleventh meeting of the [...]
Air Force Funds Future ICBM Studies
The first of several studies to determine the best options for maintaining or replacing the nation’s 450 Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile weapons systems after 2030 is underway, Air Force officials said here recently. “The Air Force is strongly committed to the ground-based leg of the nation’s nuclear triad and we’re taking all actions appropriate [...]


