Orders for General Dynamics HOOK2T Combat Search and Rescue Radios Exceed 10,000
U.S. Air Force purchases 744 new units and upgrades 1,500 more
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – General Dynamics Decision Systems has now sold 11,000 HOOK2™ combat search and rescue (CSAR) radios, thanks to recent U. S. Air Force orders totaling $13 million. These orders include a $4.8 million order for 744 AN/PRC-112G™ radios from the U. S. Air Force Air Combat Command in Langley, Va., the largest U.S. order to date for the field-proven radio.
Through two additional orders, the Air Force also bought upgrades to nearly 1,500 earlier-model AN/PRC-112 radios, to add the global positioning satellite (GPS) location capability and encrypted two-way messaging, features that are inherent in the newer AN/PRC-112G radios. The upgraded radios will be used by the 16th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Fla., and by U.S Air Force units in Europe. Together, these two orders for upgrades are valued at $8.2 million, for work to be completed in September.
“Confidence in the HOOK2 CSAR system has grown tremendously,” said Chris Brady, director of Assured Communications Systems at General Dynamics Decision Systems. “The more our U.S. and foreign customers use our system, the more they value its unique advantages in achieving timely rescues, and the more they seek to equip their personnel with our products.”
General Dynamics’ HOOK2 CSAR system provides line-of-sight and over-the-horizon communications directly between downed personnel and their rescuers through a wide range of aircraft and national assets. The latest generation of the company’s HOOK2 CSAR radios, the AN/PRC-112G, provides encrypted two-way messaging and GPS-location capabilities to help ensure quick, secure location and rescue of downed aircrew and other forces. The radios are interoperable with earlier General Dynamics’ survival radios as well as other NATO and Coalition partner equipment.
General Dynamics has delivered more than 9,300 HOOK2 CSAR radios to U.S. customers, including the Air Force, Army, Marine Corp, Navy and Special Operations Forces, and has delivered $12 million worth of the radios to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence over the past six months. Militaries in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Portugal have also procured HOOK2 radios.
General Dynamics Decision Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), is a leader in products and systems for information assurance, communications and situational awareness for defense and industrial customers in the U.S. and abroad. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz., General Dynamics Decision Systems also has facilities in Huntsville, Ala., Orlando, Fla., and Columbia, Md., as well as other locations close to customer centers of operation.
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 64,600 people worldwide and anticipates 2003 revenues of $15.5 billion. The company has leading market positions in mission-critical information systems and technologies, land and amphibious combat systems, shipbuilding and marine systems, and business aviation.
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General Dynamics Corporation (ticker: GD, exchange: NYSE)
News Release - Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Press Contact: (912) 965-7372
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