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BAE Systems Looks At TWS Possibilities

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Thursday, September 30th, 2010

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By B.C. Kessner A multi-year award to provide the Canadian Army with Thermal Weapon Sights (TWS), streaming international inquiries, new technologies, and the latest Army follow-on deal pushing contract values over the $1 billion mark, all have BAE Systems officials seeing green about the future of TWS. "Feedback has been very good on TWS, the soldiers like it," Bruce Zukauskas, BAE's director of soldier systems told Defense Daily. "That is reflected in well over $1 billion in orders since 2004."…

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