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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Congress Asked to Approve $179 Million Arms Sale to Singapore

AN/TPQ-53America's national checkbook may be frozen by the government shutdown, but luckily for our defense contractors, not all countries are in such dire straits.

Case in point: The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Tuesday of plans to sell the government of Singapore a half-dozen AN/TPQ-53 (V) Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar Systems from Lockheed Martin.

The AN/TPQ-53 is a counter-battery radar system, which means it tracks the speeds and trajectories of incoming rockets, mortar rounds, and similar missiles to determine where the fire is coming from, enabling the user to know where to shoot back -- hence "counterfire."

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