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Article: DoD buying several foreign systems after successful tests.(US Department of Defense; Air Force buying Matra CAP's Eagle Vision system, other systems to be purchased)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- April 12, 1996
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The Air Force is deciding whether to procure several units of a French-built mobile satellite receiving station that the service has tested and is currently using to support Bosnia operations, according to the Pentagon's annual report on the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) program.
The Eagle Vision system, built by Matra CAP, is one of 10 foreign weapons systems the Pentagon is likely to procure after they proved successful in the FY '95 FCT program. DoD has already awarded six procurement contracts to three United Kingdom-based firms and three other European countries for systems that completed successful tests in FY '95. Six of the programs are for the Navy, two ...