by Joe Katzman | Jun 10, 2010 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, MBDA, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, Partnerships & Consortia
June 9/10: Finmeccanica subsidiary SELEX Sistemi Integrati announces [PDF] a 5-year, EUR 238 million contract from the Italian Ministry of Defence’s Land Armaments General Directorate, for a digitized system known as Forza NEC (Network Enabled Capability). The...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 10, 2010 | Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, India, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Other Corporation, Surface Ships - Combat
USCG Boutwell, Iraq(click to view larger) In June 2010, India’s largest privately-owned ship-builder, Pipavav Shipyard, won a Rs 2,600 crore (about $553.5 million) contract, as the lowest bidder to build 5 new 110m, 2,000t offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for the...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 8, 2010 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Forces - Marines, Guns - Personal Weapons, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
SA80A2s, Iraq(click to view full) If fighting in Iraq was mostly about Close Quarters Battle, experience on the ground in Afghanistan is driving home the opposite imperative: marksmanship and lethality at range. US studies like the influential “Taking Back the...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 3, 2010 | BAE, Design Innovations, Trucks & Transport, USA
M1151 w. Frag Kit 7(click to view full) BAE Systems Survivability Systems, Inc. in Fairfield, OH received a $52.7 million firm-fixed-priced requirements contract for 6,000 improved turret drive system retrofit kits, and field service representative support. Note the...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 3, 2010 | Budgets, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Specialty Aircraft, Tanks & Mechanized
Not any time soon…?(click to view full) Greece made an about face on half of its future fighter order, switching from a EUR 4.9 billion contract (about $5.8 billion) for 60 EADS Eurofighters to a roughly $2 billion contract for 30 F-16C/D Block 50/52s as a...
