by Joe Katzman | Apr 25, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica
Austrian AB212(click to view full) Austria’s mountainous terrain makes helicopters very important to its military, which operates a handful of S-70 Black Hawks, plus an aging fleet of AB212 Hueys that were license-built in Italy, and even older French...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 25, 2010 | Coastal & Littoral, France, MBDA, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Anti-Ship
Exocet MM40 Block 3(click to view full) The Emirate of Qatar sits in the middle of the Persian Gulf, a shallow and narrow body of water that lends itself to fast, small, missile armed ships and boats. Qatar’s Navy relies on 7 French and British 400t-500t Fast...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 22, 2010 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Force Structure, Issues - Political, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Small Business, USA
4ID-3BCT: Baqubah, Iraq(click to view full) Fort Carson is located just 1 mile away from NORAD’s famous headquarters in Colorado. It is now home to the 2nd and 3rd Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) of the 4th Infantry Division (a misleading name – 4ID contains...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 14, 2010 | Blimps & LTA Craft, Britain/U.K., China, Coastal & Littoral, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Forces - Special Ops, Issues - International, Legal, Pre-RFP, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Surface Ships - Combat, Transport & Utility, USA, WMD Proliferation
* US heavily reliant on China for supply of rare earth metals used in high-tech weapons such as radar, night vision devices, and smart bombs, GAO warns. GAO report [pdf] | Bloomberg | TechNewsDaily * Foreign Policy magazine: “Time Is Of the Essence” to...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 13, 2010 | Bases & Infrastructure, Corporate Innovations, Daily Rapid Fire, Helicopters & Rotary, Israel, IT - Software & Integration, Legal, Lockheed Martin, Materials Innovations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Missiles - Anti-Armor, New Systems Tech, R&D - Contracted, Robots, Science - Basic Research, Sensors & Guidance, Small Business, Specialty Aircraft, Surface Ships - Combat, T&C - RAND Corp., Textron, UAVs, University-related, USA
* RAND Corp. adds to lessons learned from the 2006 war in Lebanon: “Military Capabilities for Hybrid War; Insights from the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon and Gaza” [PDF] * Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry may have found a way to improve the...
