* A400M transport aircraft: What a long strange trip it’s been!
* Don’t get no respect: Pentagon opposes US Senate bill giving USMC equal billing to US Navy in department’s title.
* US State Department accepts first modernized S-61T helicopters.
* EADS Eurocopter unveils a diesel-electric propulsion… helicopter?
* North Korea Minister of Defense threatens cyber attack as US and South Korea gear up for joint military exercises.
* It is balloon!: Lockheed Martin snags $142 million in US Army orders for Persistent Threat Detection Systems – tethered aerostats used for long endurance ISR.
* European holiday: Eatontown, NJ-based Enrise’s $20 million sale of Advanced Control Components unit to Aeroflex to fund European defense expansion.
* SAIC secures follow-on contract worth up to $94 million to provide program management and technical services to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic‘s Tactical Command and Control Division for the Rapid Capability Insertion operation.