by Joe Katzman | Dec 20, 2011 | Americas - Other, Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, General Atomics, IT - Cyber-Security, Medical, Middle East - Other, Mines & Countermine-IED, People, Specialty Aircraft, UAVs, USA
* Britain is really missing its Nimrod patrol planes. They had to dispatch a Type 42 destroyer from Portsmouth on the English Channel, to watch a Russian battlegroup 25 miles off of Scotland that included the Admiral Kuznetzov aircraft carrier. * The British Ministry...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 18, 2011 | Contracts - Awards, Northrop-Grumman, Radars, Specialty Aircraft, Support & Maintenance, USA
E-8C JSTARS(click to view full) In mid-December 2011, Northrop Grumman Corporation announced a 30-month, $540 million contract extension, covering Total System Support Responsibility (TSSR) for the 17-plane operational fleet of E-8C JSTARS ground surveillance and...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 18, 2011 | Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Force Structure, Helicopters & Rotary, Sensors & Guidance, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA
MHRCS Mi-8(click to view full) Hungary’s air force (Magyar Honvedseg Repulo Csapatai; MHRCS) shrank quickly after the Soviet Union fell, and its helicopter force was not spared. Its transport fleet reportedly consists of just 8 remaining Mi-8s and 7 related...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 16, 2011 | Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Satellites & Sensors, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Submarines
* The US Senate voted 86-13 for the FY12 defense bill which President Obama is now expected to sign. Congress is also on the verge of finding another midnight hour funding compromise to avoid a government shutdown, pending votes later today. Meanwhile Republicans and...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 15, 2011 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Asia - Other, Australia & S. Pacific, Boeing, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, France, Heavy Bombers, India, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, People, Policy - Personnel, Politics, Satellites & Sensors, Scandals & Investigations, Specialty Aircraft, UAVs, USA
* After the cremated remains of at least 274 fallen US service-members, and 1,762 other unidentified body parts, were unceremoniously thrown into a county landfill as waste, Tom Ricks says that “either the Air Force Secretary, its Chief of Staff, or both”...
