FARA Offering by AVX/L3 Made to Satisfy Requirements from Get Go, L3 Says

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PARIS AIR SHOW--Now the president of L3 Technologies' [LLL] surveillance and strikesystems sector, Luke Savoie said that he remembers an Army OH-58 Kiowa Warrior crewmember firing an M4 carbine out of the window of the aircraft during U.S. operations in Iraqmore than a decade ago--a decision made to avoid possible collateral damage from thehelicopter's Hydra-70, 2.75 inch diameter rockets, he said.Savoie said that he was then an Air Force Special Operations Command AC-130 aircraftcommander and that the dilemma faced by the Kiowa Warrior crew has helped motivate him inhis work on the AVX/L3 Technologies offering for the U.S. Army's Future Attack ReconnaissanceAircraft (FARA) program.