1979 Tucker Snowcat 
1979 Tucker Snowcat equipped with protective armour
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суббота, 26 сентября 2020 г.
Space Force awards a $120 M contract to the L3Harris for the Space Surveillance system upgrade
The U.S. Space Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract worth as much as $120M for the upkeep and modernization of the military’s ground-based sensors that track objects and activities in space.
The GEODSS systems are used to search, detect, track and identify all deep space objects to provide space surveillance information to the Combined Operations Space Center and the Distributed Space C2 – Dahlgren. (Air Force)
L3Harris Technologies Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been awarded a $119,172,657 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification (P00007) to contract FA8823-20-C-0004 for the Ground-Based Electro Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) System upgrade on Ground-Based Optical Sensor System (GBOSS) engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) pre-priced option. This modification provides for the exercise of an option for the GBOSS EMD Phase to complete the design for the integrated system; develop and/or modify software required to support the system; design and build new European and Pacific sites and add an additional sensor tower enclosure to the GEODSS White Sands Missile Range site; upgrade and/or acquire, integrate, test and field the 12 GEODSS Enhanced Technology sensor towers; and design, develop and/or acquire, integrate, test and field the three Advanced Technology Sensor towers. Work will be performed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by June 27, 2024. Fiscal 2020 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $12,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Total cumulative face value of the contract is $218,167,008. The Space and Missile Systems Center Directorate of Contracting, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is the contracting activity.
U.S. Space Surveillance Network
пятница, 25 сентября 2020 г.
Rheinmetall Lynx IFV demonstration in Hungary
About cooperation between Hungarian government and german Rheinmetall we have already wrote - Hungarian Armed Forces to Receive Delivery of Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Now I will presented to you photods of LINX IFV from demonstration in Hungary, which toock place yesteerday.
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