Gowind Family(click to view full) In October 2010, Malaysia’s Boustead received a letter of intent from their government for 6 “second-generation patrol vessels.” In January 2012, South Africa’s DefenceWeb reported that DCNS and its local...
* The US has been struggling to figure out what to do with its MRAPs in Afghanistan for about a year. The State Department is now confirming that Pakistan is requesting a Foreign Military Sale of 160 MaxxPros for about $198 million, an idea first floated back in...
The Obama administration, including DoD, rolled out their FY2015 budget request on March 4, alongside the release of the new quadrennial defense review (QDR). Even with this year’s partial rollback of sequestration, cuts were still on the agenda, but by the end...
* A Belgian newspaper reported over the weekend that Belgium’s federal prosecutor had foiled several terrorist attacks in past months that had been planned by jihadists coming back from Syria. Another report, from the Het Laatste Nieuws tabloid, alleged that...
IqAF C-208B ISR(click to view full) African countries need counter-insurgency and surveillance aircraft, but they aren’t about to buy top-end gear like an AC-130. Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano turboprop trainer and light attack aircraft is about the upper...