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Australia Awards Saab $25 Million Contract To Upgrade Air Defense Weapon And Radar Systems

Monday, August 15th, 2016

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Australia Awards Saab $25 Million Contract To Upgrade Air Defense Weapon And Radar Systems

Girafffe AMB. Photo: Saab Group

Saab AB signed a combined $25 million contract with the Australian Defence Forces to upgrade the Army’s RBS 70 ground-based air defense weapons system and the Giraffe AMB radar, the company said Monday.The contract will have Saab upgrade the existing Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) capability of the RBS 70 and Giraffe AMB systems to include Mode 5 functionality. Mode 5 uses modern modulation, coding, and cryptographic techniques to increase performance and security systems of the current Mode 4 waveform…

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