When America, along with its allies, launched ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, few could have guessed it would be stepping into its longest war.
Yet if the legacy of this two-decade conflict will be long disputed, bleeding as it did both literally and metaphorically into the invasion of Iraq two years later, and a broader War on Terror, it would be wrong to forget the unity of that pre-invasion month in 2001.
For 9/11 shocked the world and left no room for equivocation.
Rescue workers sift through the wreckage of the World Trade Center, two days after the terrorist attack
SOFINS puts UAV innovation on the menu - Air Warfare
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US Army awards Northrop Grumman $960M contract for IR countermeasures.
12 May 2021
.and Flir wins $15.4 million contract to supply image-generating Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems.
NGâs CIRCMs are already installed on more than 1,500 aircraft.The U.S. Army has awarded military and aerospace systems developer Northrop Grumman (NG) a five-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $959.1 million for full-rate production of the Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) system.
The CIRCM system provides U.S. Army aircraft protection from current and emerging missile threats. The award follows the U.S. Armyâs approval for the Northrop Grumman CIRCM system to enter full-rate production based on design maturity and demonstrated production capability.