by Joe Katzman | Jan 28, 2013 | Events, Force Structure, India, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Tanks & Mechanized
Arjun tank(click to view full) India’s indigenous Arjun tank project began in 1974, and originally aimed to replace the Russian T-54 and T-72 tanks which made up the bulk of that country’s armored firepower. As has often been the case in India, its DRDO...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 27, 2013 | Budgets, Contracts - Intent, Domestic Security, Europe - Other, Issues - Political, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Russia, Trucks & Transport
Linces in Afghanistan(click to view full) In a strong-commodity, weak-dollar/Euro world, Russia has the finances it need to replenish its badly depleted military. What it doesn’t have yet is the industrial and engineering capacity, which was lost during the...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 22, 2013 | Avionics, Brazil, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, ECM, Electronics - General, Other Corporation, Radars, Signals Radio & Wireless, Specialty Aircraft
Amazon AEW&C(click to view full) Embraer’s ability to design and deliver EMB 145 AEW&C aerial surveillance jets to Brazil’s FAB and foreign customers places Brazil within an elite group of countries. The FAB’s 5 “E-99” jets play...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 22, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Laser & EM Weapons, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Testing & Evaluation, USA
747 ABL(click to view full) In January 2013, Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA received a $9.5 million to cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification under the Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) Program. To explain that term in plain English, turbulence and...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 21, 2013 | Contracts - Modifications, Other Corporation, Support & Maintenance, UAVs, USA
MQ-1, Afghanistan(click to view full) General Atomics may make the USA’s Predator and Reaper drone fleets, but Battlespace Flight Services LLC in Arlington, VA has been a key provider of maintenance support for several years now, and their FY 2007 multi-year...
