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L3Harris Gets Contract To Provide Ukrainian Forces With VAMPIRE Defense System

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, January 6th, 2023

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L3Harris Gets Contract To Provide Ukrainian Forces With VAMPIRE Defense System

L3Harris' VAMPIRE, or Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment. Photo: L3Harris.

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] last Friday said it has received a $40 million Pentagon contract to provide 14 of its VAMPIRE weapon systems to Ukraine this year, with the first four units delivered by mid-2023. The Vehicular Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment, called VAMPIRE, is a portable multi-purpose weapon system that will be installed on government furnished vehicles, that will strengthen Ukrainian defenses against unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) being used to attack civilian infrastructure. The system can also be used…

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