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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Taiwan Kidds to Receive Radar Parts

Kidd class destroyerThe Pentagon has released radar components for four Kidd-class destroyers sold to Taiwan in 2003 for $700 million.

California-based Communications & Power Industries won a $12.2 million FMS contract to supply Taiwan with the MK-74 TARTAR-D system traveling wave tubes (TWT) and solenoids.

"The MK-74 TARTAR-D TWT is a component of the MK-74 Guided Missile Fire Control System (GMFCS)," according to a Pentagon contract award notice on May 12. "The GMFCS MK-74 functions as part of the missile weapons system to support the anti-air and anti-surface warfare missions of ships." Contract completion scheduled for 2014.

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