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Selex Galileo, Northrop Grumman, Demonstrate ECLIPSE Maturity

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Friday, April 9th, 2010

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Finmeccanica's Selex Galileo recently announced the results of recent U.S. government reliability and characterization tests demonstrated the maturity of the latest infrared countermeasure system ECLIPSE, developed with Northrop Grumman [NOC]. The ECLIPSE pointer tracker provides a low risk approach to protecting the U.S. Army's fixed and rotary wing fleet from surface to air missile threats. The benefit, experience and lessons learned from over 20 years of aircraft protection have influenced the design and development of the fifth generation, lightweight, low…

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