by [email protected] | Feb 16, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * A month after it was reported to have accidentally been sent to Cuba, the US has regained possession of its Hellfire air-to-ground missile. The inert munition had been used in NATO training exercises in Spain during 2014, however, shipping errors had it...
by [email protected] | Feb 15, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The US Army plans to upgun their 8×8 Stryker armored vehicles. The vehicles will be fitted with a 30mm automatic cannon, that comes with air-burst shells, for use in air defense activities. The gun would allow the vehicles to act as a mobile...
by [email protected] | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The head of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has played down reductions to the F-35A annual procurement quota to 48. Lt. Gen Christopher Bogden said that this would be upped to 60 units annually from fiscal 2018-2020. When adjusted for increased orders...
by [email protected] | Feb 11, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * All nuclear modernization programs are to be kept on track in Fiscal Year 2017, with the Pentagon to spend roughly $3.2 billion on programs to modernize and recapitalize the service’s nuclear submarines, bombers, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM),...
by [email protected] | Feb 10, 2016 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Mini-UAVs causing a nuisance? Well Finmeccanica may have found a solution that has the ability to find, fix, track, identify, and defeat threats from small UAVs that end up where they shouldn’t. Dubbed “Falcon Shield”, the system combines...
