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Cubic Global Defense to provide training support services for British army by Richard Tomkins Washington (UPI) May 4, 2017 Cubic Global Defense will continue service support and repair of Area Weapons Effects Simulators at British Army training areas, the company announced on Thursday. Work on the three-year, $35 million contract will be performed at the Salisbury Plain Training Area in Britain and at the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Canada. "Cubic has worked with the British Army for nearly 15 years providing industry-best ground combat training solutions for its warfighters," Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense, said in a press release. "Our U.K. customer is very important to us and this award extends the work we have accomplished together to advance the British Ministry of Defense's training experience and standard." The AWES are used for force-on-force combat exercises and provide simulated effects of direct fire, artillery, mortar fire, mines and air-delivered munitions. Using GPS technology, they can track and monitor the actions and positions of more than 1,400 individual soldiers and 250 vehicles. Cubic Global Defense said the systems also have the capability to measure hits and misses of soldiers using laser engagement weapon systems.
Washington (UPI) May 1, 2017 Bertin Technologies reports that Australia has chosen its Second Sight MS standoff chemical threat detector to equip its armed forces. The Second Sight system is a gas-detection system that uses an infrared sensor to detect chemical warfare agents or toxic industrial gases at a range of as much as 3.1 miles. Bertin, headquartered in France, said the system has been certified by t ... read more Related Links The latest in Military Technology for the 21st century at SpaceWar.com
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