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![]() by James Laporta Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018
EFW Inc. has been awarded a contract for Apache Aviator Integrated Helmets and associated spare parts for the U.S. Army. The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $12.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract agreement. The Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet is a critical piece of hardware for pilots of the AH-64 Apache helicopter. The helmet boasts a heads-up display that delivers targeting information and infrared imaging to the helmet display. Work on the contract is to be determined with each order request, and is expected to be completed in January 2022. The U.S. Army Contracting Command out of Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting authority for this deal.
![]() ![]() A new family of aerodynamic configurations of hypersonic airplanes Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Hypersonic vehicles, which flight at Mach numbers lager than five (flight velocity more than 6000 km/h), will serve as a more convenient and efficient transport tool than present subsonic airplanes for long-distance journeys in future. Typically, it only takes a couple of hours from Beijing to New York. Recent interest in these vehicles has grown intensively, and various types of innovative designs have been proposed and studied. Despite entering the age of hypersonic flight, there still exist man ... read more
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