by Joe Katzman | Jan 20, 2009 | Asia - Central, BAE, Contracts - Awards, Field Innovations, General Dynamics, Other Equipment - Land, USA
2-503’s MRS, Afghanistan(click to read article) The easiest way to clear mines is to trigger them. Heavy armored vehicles often use mine ploughs to clear the way. Lighter wheeled vehicles tend to use mine rollers instead, pushing the weighted devices in front of...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 20, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, General Dynamics, Missiles - Anti-Armor, New Systems Tech, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Tanks & Mechanized, Transformation, USA
Leo2 fires Lahat -time-lapse photo(click to view full) Ever since anti-tank missiles proved their lethality on the battlefield, designers and officers have wanted to create tank rounds that could act like guided missiles. The pursuit hasn’t always gone well. The...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 19, 2009 | BAE, Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Events, Issues - Political, IT - Cyber-Security, Official Reports, Security & Secrecy, Submarines, Surface Ships - Combat, Warfare - Trends
Cyber-security is an ongoing issue for any enterprise these days, but the defense sector is more of a target than most. Britain’s Ministry of Defence has been finding this out the hard way lately, as a string of announcements have placed its security under a...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 18, 2009 | Corporate Financials, Engines - Aircraft, Events, Fighters & Attack, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Mergers & Acquisitions, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Procurement, Russia
MiG-35D(click to view full) As Sukhoi’s SU-30 family of large, multi-role fighters has come to dominate Russian aircraft exports over the past decade, the positions of Sukhoi and MiG have reversed. Now MiG is the deeply secondary design bureau, and Sukhoi is the...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 15, 2009 | Asia - Central, C4ISR, Contracts - Intent, Corporate Innovations, Field Innovations, Helicopters & Rotary, Intelligence & PsyOps, Interoperability, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, Transformation, UAVs, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
IqAF King Air 350-ISR(click to view full) In 2009, the Ottawa Citizen’s defense reporter David Pugliese reported that the US military was about to spend $100 million to upgrade the facilities at Kandahar, Afghanistan, in order to accommodate up to 26 aircraft...
