by Joe Katzman | Jun 25, 2024 | Airbus, Asia - Other, BAE, Boeing, Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Eng. Control Systems, Expeditionary Warfare, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Forces - Naval, General Dynamics, IAI, Interoperability, Israel, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Materials Innovations, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Doctrine, Power Projection, Procurement Innovations, Project Methodologies, Protective Systems - Naval, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Sensors - Aquatic, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation, Training & Exercises, Transformation, USA, UUVs & USVs, Warfare - Trends
Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy’s idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet....
by Joe Katzman | May 17, 2024 | Coastal & Littoral, Delivery & Task Orders, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Sensors - Aquatic, Testing & Evaluation, UAVs, USA
RQ-4A Global Hawk (click to view full) Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV has established a dominant position in the High Altitude/ Long Endurance UAV market. While they are not cheap, they are uniquely capable. During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the...
by Joe Katzman | May 16, 2024 | Avionics, Boeing, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, GE, India, Israel, Issues - International, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Pre-RFP, Raytheon, Rumours, Support Functions - Other, United Technologies, USA
MiG-21 ‘Lancer’ (click to view full) The MiG-21 is reaching the end of its service life, but it can still be effective for a little while. India’s refurbished MiG-21 ‘Bisons’ combined Russian, Indian and Israeli technology to excellent...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 24, 2024 | Americas - Other, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, FOCUS Articles, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, Procurement Innovations, Radars, USA
G/ATOR diorama (click to view full) The US military’s long run of unquestioned air superiority has led to shortcuts in mobile land-based air defenses, and the US Marines are no exception. A December 2005 release from Sen. Schumer’s office [D-NY] said that:...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 17, 2024 | Airbus, Australia & S. Pacific, Contracts - Intent, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Force Structure, France, GE, Helicopters & Rotary, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Support & Maintenance, Thales, United Technologies, USA
MH-60Rs fire Hellfire (click to view full) Australia’s AIR 9000, Phase 8 project aimed to buy 24 modern naval helicopters to 16 existing S-70B-2 Seahawks, along with the disastrous A$1.1 billion, 11-helicopter SH-2G “Super Seasprite” acquisition...
