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BAE Systems Expanding Q-Sight Focus To Ground, Other Applications

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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By B.C. Kessner BAE Systems' Q-Sight helmet display products were originally designed for pilots, yet when the first contract went to the United Kingdom recently for helicopter door gunners, thoughts of additional applications soon materialized, company executives said last week. "We're seeing lots of interesting applications," John Nix, BAE's vice president for international business development, said during a video teleconference press briefing. "Some of them we dream up, but quite frankly it tends to be the end user that comes…

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