by Joe Katzman | Jan 17, 2019 | Asia - Other, Contracts - Awards, Middle East - Other, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, South Korea, Tanks & Mechanized
South Korea’s XK2 (click to view full) Turkey’s tank fleet is currently made up of American M-48s and M-60s, some of which have been modernized with Israeli cooperation into M-60 Sabra tanks, plus a large contingent of German Leopard 1s and Leopard 2s....
by Joe Katzman | Jan 17, 2019 | Air Reconnaissance, Boeing, Britain/U.K., C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, FOCUS Articles, Industry & Trends, Israel, New Systems Tech, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Doctrine, Project Failures, Project Successes, Radars, RFPs, Sensors & Guidance, Thales, Transformation, UAVs
Watchkeeper 450 (click to view full) Britain’s Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program aims to give the Royal Artillery an advanced mid-range UAV for surveillance – and possibly more. Watchkeeper will be an important system, working within a...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 15, 2019 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Force Structure, Germany, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Legal, Other Corporation, Scandals & Investigations, Submarines, Support Functions - Other, Testing & Evaluation
Papanikolis at HDW (click to view full) On Monday Sept 21/09, ThyssenKrupp Marine informed the Greek Minister of Defence that it was canceling “The Archimedes Project” contract for 4 U-214 diesel-electric submarines with Air-Independent Propulsion...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 11, 2019 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Iraq, Other Corporation, Rumours
Runway Buzz: L-159As (click to view full) Czechoslovakia originally ordered 72 of Aero Vodochody’s sub-sonic L-159A single-seat light attack jets. Their preceding L-39/59 Albatros trainer and light attack aircraft family became the world’s most popular jet...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 10, 2019 | Airbus, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, FOCUS Articles, France, Issues - International, Issues - Political, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Project Methodologies, R&D - Contracted, Testing & Evaluation, UAVs
Saab concept (click to view full) The European nEUROn project joins Britain’s Taranis UCAV, Russia’s MiG SKAT, Boeing’s X-45 Phantom Ray, and the US Navy’s X-47 UCAS-D program as unmanned aircraft projects with fighter-substitution potential....
