by Joe Katzman | Feb 28, 2008 | India, Industry & Trends, Official Reports, Other Corporation
India’s defense industry has some measure of transparency due to the country’s democratic structure and rule of law, but a powerful bureaucratic tradition contributes a parallel level of obfuscation that makes information less forthcoming than it is in...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 28, 2008 | Europe - Other, France, India, Other Corporation, RFPs, Russia, Submarines
Scorpene construction(click to view full) Infodefensa relays a Negocios newspaper report [Espanol] that Navantia has submitted its S-80 Class currently under development for Spain, in response to an Indian Navy RFP for a follow-on submarine purchase. The purchase...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 28, 2008 | Bases & Infrastructure, Delivery & Task Orders, Other Corporation, Training & Exercises, USA
Fix that pipe!(click to view full) When things go wrong on a naval ship, they can go very badly wrong indeed. Accidents, hostile fire, or hazardous conditions can force a crew to fight to save their vessel. Since humans don’t survive very well in open ocean,...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2008 | Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, R&D - Contracted, Singapore, Support & Maintenance, Transformation
RSAF AS332 on LSD-49(click to view full) Maintenance trends are one of the most underrated issues in the defense field. Britain is leading the way with “contracting for availability” approaches that pay fixed annual costs over a system’s lifetime,...
by Joe Katzman | Feb 27, 2008 | Delivery & Task Orders, Japan, Northrop-Grumman, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
Japanese E-2C (click to view full) On Feb 25/08, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp in Bethpage, NY received two contracts via the US Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD related to Japan’s E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) aircraft....
