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Marine West : Marines prepare for AN/PAS-28 deliveries

29th January 2010 - 08:30 GMT | by Scott Gourley in Camp Pendleton, California

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The US Marine Corps will soon begin receiving deliveries of its new AN/PAS-28 Medium Range Thermal Biocular.

‘The only two military departments that have a thermal bino requirement are [United States Special Operations Command] and the Marine Corps,’ explained Allen Horman, who works with Advanced Sighting System Products at ELCAN. ‘In the case of the Marine Corps, we received an IDIQ [indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract] for 10,000 units.’

In late January 2009, Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS) announced that ELCAN Optical Technologies (a Raytheon Company) had received a $180 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the procurement, delivery, maintenance,

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