UK Boasts Double Digit Defense Export Order Growth in 2013

UK Boasts Double Digit Defense Export Order Growth in 2013

* The UK’s government released 2013 defense export numbers up 11% to £9.8B ($16.8B), thanks to helicopter sales to Norway and South Korea, ongoing Middle Eastern deals, and a still respectable billion pounds worth of orders from the US. The report shows the UK...
UK Boasts Double Digit Defense Export Order Growth in 2013

Prescription Drugs Crowd Out Shipbuilding in US Defense Budget

* Bloomberg has seen the US Navy’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan, which finally acknowledges that it “requires funding at an unsustainable level” to deliver the number of new vessels in the plan. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has been...
UK Boasts Double Digit Defense Export Order Growth in 2013

Clash in Karbala Hints of Complexity of Iraq’s Ongoing Internal Conflict

* Iraqi forces clashed with a militia following a local Shia cleric in Karbala, south of Baghdad. Prime Minister Maliki seems to be losing support even from his Shia backers. * Meanwhile fighting against ISIL continued in the north in several contested areas of...
UK Boasts Double Digit Defense Export Order Growth in 2013

France, Germany to Create Export-Savvy Land Forces Specialist

* France’s state-owned Nexter and Germany’s privately-owned Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) have announced [PDF] their intent to form a joint holding company. If this alliance (the word merger is studiously avoided) is completed as expected next year, the...