by Editorial Staff | Sep 26, 2012 | China, Daily Rapid Fire, People, United Technologies, USA
* Sikorsky announced on Monday that they would close their Military Completions Center in Big Flats, NY, by the end of the year. That facility was developed in 2007, following the acquisition of Schweizer Aircraft in 2004, to prep Black Hawk and Naval Hawk helicopters...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 25, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Canada, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Germany, Mergers & Acquisitions, Official Reports, People, USA
This way to the top Chinese authorities officially confirmed [government source, in Chinese] today that they commissioned the Liaoning (formerly the USSR’s unfinished Riga then Varyag), their first aircraft carrier. * If there are American opponents to a...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 24, 2012 | Africa - Other, Airbus, Alliances, BAE, Boeing, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, France, Germany, Mergers & Acquisitions, Russia
* China’s first aircraft carrier was delivered to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)… or was it really? After Vice President’s Xi Jinping temporary disappearance for two weeks earlier this month for reasons that remain unclear,...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 21, 2012 | Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Russia, USA
* Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale told the House Armed Services Committee that he thought large cancellation fees would be largely avoidable in case sequestration was implemented. The Pentagon would focus on lowering quantities and postponing shipbuilding within...
by Editorial Staff | Sep 20, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, European Union (EU), France, Germany, Lobbying, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D - Contracted, Russia, Submarines, USA
* Swedish general Hakan Syren, the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, tells it like it is: “The military capabilities of the EU member states are on a steady downward slope. […] Looking a few years into the future, it is simple mathematics...
