* Russia looks to China [Izvestia / RIA] to get military components it won’t be able to buy from the West. * Russia will be keeping [ITAR-TASS] its MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors in service for another 15 years. Their radar size and missile capacity makes them...
Searcher II with SAR(click to view full) Since 2007, we’ve been treated to ongoing speculation about Syria buying Russian weapons with Iranian financing, including reports of MiG-31 and MiG-29 fighters. Some reports even placed the Islamic Republic of Iran as...
* President Obama authorized targeted airstrikes against ISIL insurgents in Iraq, as well as humanitarian assistance to civilians stranded on a mountain. British Prime Minister David Cameron is “extremely concerned” by the situation in the country and...
* The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to award a sole source contract to Raytheon/BBN, SRI, and Leidos for Phases 4 and 5 of its Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program, whose purpose is to detect speech in very noisy environments. Does...
What is it good for?(click to view full) The Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) program began in 1995, and it has taken a very long time. Its MoU was late, its contract will be both late and smaller in scope, and it won’t meet even a revised 2012 – 2014...