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Northrop Grumman Tapped To Supply Navigation Units To Germany

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Friday, October 9th, 2009

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Northrop Grumman [NOC]was awarded a contract by the German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) to deliver the first 257 inertial navigation units for the German Bundeswehr's new Boxer multi-role armored vehicle. The LLN-GY units will be built by the company's German navigation systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman LITEF. The LLN-GY is a hybrid land navigation system based on a state-of-the-art fiber-optic gyro and micro-electromechanical (MEMS) accelerometers developed and manufactured by Northrop Grumman LITEF in Freiburg, Germany. Combining inertial…

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