Paul MacCready(click for memoriam) For Labour Day on Monday, DID salutes all of the people who work every day with their tools, in order to give the people on the front lines the tools they need to do a difficult and dangerous job. The late Dr. Paul MacCready...
Super Tucano(click to view full) Operating and recapitalization costs for front-line fighters are up in the stratosphere, even as a wide variety of conflicts around the world fit counterinsurgency profiles requiring affordable, persistent surveillance and rapid fire...
British FACs(click to view full) Rockwell Collins recently received an $18 million contract from the United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide a suite of products for the next generation Forward Air Controller and Forward Observation Officer (FAC/FOO)...
Cougar 6×6, IEDed(via EU Referendum,click to view full) Sometimes, a picture really is worth 1,000 words. The crew of this Cougar 6×6 MRAP CAT-II vehicle escaped with only minor injuries and no one was killed, even though the IED land mine blast ripped out...
T-90(click to view full) Thales has announced a contract with Russian state firm Rosoboronexport (amount undisclosed) for around 100 Catherine FC thermal imaging cameras, which will equip T-90 tanks of the Russian army as all-weather sights. Their qualification for...