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Oxley Group Ltd
Oxley specialises in the design and manufacture of advanced electronic and electro-optic components and systems for air, land and sea applications within the military sector. Established in 1942, Oxley has manufacturing facilities in the UK and USA and enjoys representation worldwide. The company’s products include night vision and LED lighting, data capture systems and electronic components. Oxley has pioneered the development of night vision compatible lighting. It offers a total package incorporating optical filters, equipment modification, cockpit and external lighting along with fleet wide upgrade services including engineering, installation, support, maintenance and training. The company’s long experience of manufacturing night vision lighting and LED indicators, coupled with advances in LED technology, has enabled it to develop LED solutions to replace incandescent and fluorescent lighting in existing applications as well as becoming the lighting option of choice in new applications such as portable military hospitals, UAV control stations and communication shelters.
14 Feb 10. A high-powered laser destroyed a target missile in flight off the Central California coast in a milestone test of a futuristic but troubled national defence system, the Air Force announced late on Friday. A laser weapon mounted on a Boeing jumbo jet tracked the missile as it accelerated over the ocean off the Point Mugu Naval Warfare Centre on Thursday night, then fired an energy beam that heated the missile until it cracked and broke up, according to statements from the Air Force and two aerospace companies involved in the programme. The test is a boost for a programme that has had billions in cost overruns and saw its budget sharply cut last year by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who called the concept “fatally flawed” and destined it for minimal research-and-development. While the success of the test is a technological triumph, it won’t save the airborne laser programme from being placed on life-support, a defence analyst said. “The programme results are, unfortunately, two years behind the secretary’s decision to cancel the programme,” said Jim McAleese of Mcaleese and Associates, a lawyer and defence consultant in Virginia who is not affiliated with the project. The laser programme was designed to kill missiles at short range. The 2011 budget for the Missile Defence Agency concentrates instead on two ship-based missiles the Aegis and the SM-3 that are more useful for regional conflicts involving, say, Iran or North Korea, Mcaleese said. “As a practical matter, absent something extraordinary, the programme has already receded backwards into a technology incubator as opposed to proceeding into production and fielding,” he said. (Source: Google)
17 Feb 10. ARINC Launches New HF Voice Service for South East Asia Routes. Effective immediately, air carriers and general aviation operators have a new air/ground voice radio service they can depend on for reliable communications while operating in the South East Asia region. ARINC Incorporated yesterday declared its new High Frequency (HF) Voice radio station operational at Hat Yai, Thailand. The new HF Voice station was built in cooperation with Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (AEROTHAI), ARINC’s partner in providing the GLOBALinkSM portfolio of aeronautical communications services. The new station delivers robust coverage to the South East Asia flight region, including the western Pacific, China, India, and all of South East Asia. The new station fills a major communications gap and expands ARINC’s Air/Ground International voice radio coverage from the U.S., the Americas, and the Atlantic Ocean across the Pacific Ocean, to include South East and Eastern Asia.
15 Feb 10. A robot hand that can defuse bombs and a luminous goo that will protect soldiers from getting hit have been unveiled by the UK MoD. The r