by Joe Katzman | Apr 2, 2019 | Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Issues - Political, Radars, Saudi Arabia, Specialty Aircraft, USA
Saudi E-3 (click to view full) The 707-based E-3 aircraft forms the backbone of American, British, French, and NATO airborne early warning and control (AWACS), monitoring large swathes of airspace from an elevated position to detect incursions by enemy fighters,...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 1, 2019 | Africa - Other, Budgets, Issues - Political, Projections & Assessments
(click to view full) Low value. Corrupt. Aid-driven. Despite the odd exception like Algeria, and South Africa’s indigenous defense industry, most people think of these terms when they think of the African defense market. Analyst firm Forecast International sees...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 28, 2019 | Alliances, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Intent, Field Reports, General Atomics, MBDA, New Systems Tech, Radars, Raytheon, Sensors & Guidance, Transformation, UAVs, USA
RAF MQ-9, armed (click to view full) Britain decided to stand up a full Reaper flight in late 2007, after positive early experience with 3 unarmed MQ-9s in Afghanistan. The British initially saw the MQ-9 only as a high-end surveillance drone to complement their...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 27, 2019 | C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, General Dynamics, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, New Systems Tech, UAVs, USA
WIN-T concept (click to view larger) As the Army’s tactical portion of the USA’s Global Information Grid (GIG) network, Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) is designed to help deployed forces tap into that global network and its databases,...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 27, 2019 | Africa - Other, Alliances, Avionics, Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, ECM, Events, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, France, GE, General Dynamics, Guns - 20-59 mm direct, Issues - Environmental, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Protective Systems - Aircraft, Radars, Raytheon, Sensors & Guidance, Signals Radio & Wireless, Specialty Aircraft, Spotlight articles, Thales, United Technologies, USA
French Mirage F1s (click to view full) Morocco’s combat air force currently flies 2 squadrons of old F-5 fighters, and 2 squadrons of only slightly newer Mirage F1s. T-37 light jets serve as high-end trainers. Their neighbor and rival Algeria flies MiG-23s of...
