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		<title>Rheinmetall, IMI Team to Propose M109 SPG Upgrades for the IDF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IMI has teamed with the German company Rheinmetall Defence to offer an upgrade package for the Israel Defense Forces M-109A5 self propelled howitzers. The modular package will enable the IDF to introduce a list of long awaited upgrades, required to maintain the M109 in service for 40 years.]]></description>
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		<title>DigitalGlobe Rejects GeoEye Proposed Acquisition</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120507_geoeye_offers_792_million_for_digitalglobe.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=geoeye_offers_792_million_for_digitalglobe</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 07:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defense-update.com/?p=31351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Satellite imagery company GeoEye Inc offered to buy rival DigitalGlobe Inc today for $792 million in cash and stock as it tries to make up for a possible revenue loss from U.S. defense spending cuts. ]]></description>
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		<title>With the Last F-22A Delivered, the Raptor’s Modernization is Only Beginning</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120502_last_raptor_delivere.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=last_raptor_delivere</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 20:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the last of 195th F-22 Raptors was delivered to the U.S. Air Force, at its home base in Alaska, other Raptors are being Upgraded to Assume Precision Strike Missions]]></description>
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		<title>Gamma Laser Demonstrates Burning Through an Anti-Ship Missile Skin</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120502_gamma-laser-demonstrates-burning-through-an-anti-ship-missile-skin.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=gamma-laser-demonstrates-burning-through-an-anti-ship-missile-skin</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 06:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman has test fired a ruggedized and compact high power solid-state laser designed to form the basic module of future, operational laser weapons.]]></description>
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		<title>US Army Allocates Half a Billion to Support Mobile Countermine Radar</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120501_niitek_hmds_contract.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=niitek_hmds_contract</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Counter-IED]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defense-update.com/?p=31148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US Army awarded NIITEK, Inc. a sole source contract for the supply of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS). This multi-year contract has a ceiling of US$579 million with an initial order of $161 million. This contract provides the U.S. Army the ability to procure spares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HardwareWall to Secure Predator and Reaper Ground Control Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defense-update.com/?p=31144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has received the first delivery of the Boeing tactical cross-domain technology, also known as eXMeritus HardwareWall, designed to improve the ability of intelligence analysts and warfighters to securely access videos and imagery from the MQ-1Predator and MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). GA-ASI contracted Boeing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Launches a SAR Satellite Risat-1</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120427_risat-1.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=risat-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defense-update.com/?p=30824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Space Research Organization launched yesterday the second radar imagery satellite, and the first indiginously built by the country&#8217;s space research organization (ISRO). The satellite named Risat-1 successfully deployed into a polar orbit at an altitude of 480 km and orbital inclination 97.552 degrees. Risat-1 has an expected life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the US Need Two Military Clandestine Services?</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120425_defense_clandestine_service.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=defense_clandestine_service</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defense-update.com/?p=30553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon is launching a new intelligence organization called 'Defense Clandestine Service' (DCS), focusing on interests of 'national intelligence' rather than battlefield intelligence and tactical support for the warfighter.]]></description>
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		<title>Norway to Spend US$1.74 Billion on Armored Vehicle Modernization</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120424_norway-to-spend-1-74-billion-on-armored-vehicle-modernization.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=norway-to-spend-1-74-billion-on-armored-vehicle-modernization</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armored vehicles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of a comprehensive four-year defense modernization bill, Norway plans to invest US$1.74 in CV90 armored vehicles modernization, to include added mine protection, improved C4ISR integration, rubber band tracks and Remote Weapon Stations for self defense.]]></description>
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		<title>Northrop Grumman Teams with Indonesian Companies to Offer AN/TPS-78 Air Surveillance Radars</title>
		<link>http://defense-update.com/20120424_tps78_indonesi.html?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tps78_indonesi</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamir Eshel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with with PT Industri Telekomunikasi Indonesia and the Research Centre For Electronics And Telecommunications of The Indonesian Institute Of Sciences to facilitate collaboration on pending ground-based radar opportunities in Indonesia. The MOU was signed at the Sixth National Radar Seminar [...]]]></description>
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