by Joe Katzman | Dec 30, 2011 | Budgets, India, IT - Cyber-Security, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, Remote Weapons Systems, Rockets, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, UAVs, USA
DID would like to wish all of our readers a Happy New Year! * So, what milestones does India’s Ministry of Defence want to highlight from 2011? * Dynamint Nobel is still working on its classic Panzerfaust, whose modern versions have proven quite popular. The...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 29, 2011 | Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Japan, Logistics, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, Soldier's Gear
* The Pentagon is to modestly reduce the number of its top-ranked officers, after a decade of “star creep.” * How do you squeeze a Merlin AW101 helicopter into a C17? The BBC explains with a timelapse video and helpful charts. * Some British soldiers are...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 28, 2011 | Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, USA
EO-5C “Crazy Hawk” The US military’s Dash-7 derived “Crazy Hawk”/ Airborne Reconnaissance Low aircraft use their short-field takeoff capabilities and array of imaging, signals collection, and radar sensors to monitor developments on the...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 28, 2011 | Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., China, Daily Rapid Fire, GPS Infrastructure, Russia
* Last week the US GAO dismissed Hawker Beechcraft’s [HBDC] protest of the Air Force’s decision to exclude the company’s proposal as “technically unacceptable”, in the context of the Light Air Support (LAS) RFP (FA8637-10-R-6000). The...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 27, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Explosives, Mines & Countermine-IED, Other Corporation, USA, Warfare - Lessons
MPLC In December 2011, Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense in Simsbury, CT received a $10.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for 3,000 Man Portable Line Charge Systems that can fire rope-shaped plastic explosives for remote detonation, and 206 Inert Training...
