by Joe Katzman | May 12, 2011 | Avionics, Contracts - Awards, Force Structure, Legal, Saudi Arabia, Transport & Utility, Turkey, USA
TuAF C-130s(click to view full) Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review reports that the US State Department has approved the resale of 6 Saudi C-130E Hercules medium tactical transport planes to Turkey, green-lighting a deal that was struck in summer 2010. Under...
by Joe Katzman | May 11, 2011 | Asia - Central, Clothing, Contracts - Awards, Field Reports, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Project Successes, Soldier's Gear, USA, Warfare - Lessons
ECWCS-III: all 7 layers(click to view full) “During Operation Mountain Lion I found myself praying for bad weather, the first time in my military career I was actually begging for a cold front to come through. I knew my soldiers could handle it and the enemy...
by Joe Katzman | May 10, 2011 | Africa - Other, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Naval
Valour Class frigates(click to view full) In mid-April, South Africa’s DefenceWeb reported an R 49.2 million ($7.3 million) in contracts to begin resupplying its MEKO-derived Valour Class frigates with Umkhonto Mk.2 short range air defense missiles, perform...
by Joe Katzman | May 8, 2011 | Boeing, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Corporate Innovations, Design Innovations, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, People, R&D - Contracted, R&D - Private, Spotlight articles, Testing & Evaluation, Transformation, UAVs, USA
X-45C, F/A18F, F-15E(click to view full) In 1998, Boeing began a revolutionary development program: create an unmanned aircraft that was about the size of the USAF’s F-117 stealth fighter, with similar performance, better stealth, and better range. DARPA’s...
by Joe Katzman | May 4, 2011 | Asia - Other, Biological Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Chemicals & HAZMAT, Contracts - Awards, Issues - International, Northrop-Grumman, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, Support Functions - Other, USA, WMD Proliferation
Through the Co-operative Threat Reduction program, the Department of Defense provides equipment, services, and technical advice to Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to assist them in eliminating (or in the case of Russia, reducing) the weapons of mass...
