When companies compete to build military hardware, they expect that once a contract is won they will be the sole supplier of a weapon system for a decade or longer.
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Such demonstration-based assessments underpin both the certification of a refurbished weapon system and the Annual Assessment Review.
Most of the so-called problems with the B-2 are either so minor as to be operationally insignificant, or are expected occurrences at this stage of a complex weapon system's development and production.
The fight against online piracy just gained a new weapon in the form of the Copyright Alert System (CAS) aka the " six strikes" policy.
It also involved the first use of new Advanced Tomahawk Weapon Control System software, which is designed to ease joint missions involving Royal Navy and US Navy vessels.
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Most nuclear warheads are designed for use with a specific delivery system, or means of delivering the weapon to the target.
This kind of LEMP weapon could be theoretically deployed as an air defense system to neutralize conventional (IR guided or radar guided) missiles, but could also be used to neutralize UAVs, which are dependent on electronic systems.
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To find the body's secret weapon, scientists remove cells from a lymph node - a part of the circulation system used by immune cells, but which also often forms a "staging post" for cancer as it spreads around the body.
Even in an imperfect system, the nuisance value of a threatened lawsuit is a useful weapon for the weak.
The Arrow Weapon System, produced by Israel Aircraft Industries with American financial help, has a record of successful tests (five out of six).
Anti-nuclear protesters chained themselves together at the gate of the Faslane naval base on the Clyde which is home to the UK's Trident weapon system.
Jared Loughner was not in the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) that records the names of people of deemed ineligible to purchase a weapon.
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The system even detected when a passing gesture was made, seamlessly making a virtual transfer of the weapon.
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