by Joe Katzman | Dec 15, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
M1200 Armored Knight Dec 10/09: Textron Systems Corp. in Slidell, LA, receives a $10 million firm-fixed-price letter-contract for 27 M1200 Armored Knights. Work is to be performed in Slidell, LA, with an estimated completion date of Dec 31/10. One bid was solicited...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 15, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Corporate Innovations, Forces - Marines, R&D - Contracted, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
USMC M1-ABV(click to view full) Most main battle tanks have derivative Armored Engineering Vehicle variants. They sacrifice the main gun in order to provide powerful support for combat engineering tasks under fire, while keeping up with a mechanized brigade in any...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 13, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, Indonesia, Other Corporation, Radars, Specialty Aircraft
Dirgantara CN-235 MPA(click to view larger) Indonesia has more coastline to cover than almost any country in the world (2nd only to Canada), and its archipelago straddles one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints. On Dec 11/09, its defense ministry...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 10, 2009 | Budgets, Fighters & Attack, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Think Tanks, USA
F-35 in the spotlight(click to view full) The $300 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program could well become the largest single weapon program in modern history. With the next Quadrennial Defense Review on the way, however, tensions are rising for the program amidst...
by Joe Katzman | Dec 9, 2009 | Guest Articles, Iraq, Projections & Assessments
(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...
