by Editorial Staff | Feb 19, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
The F-35 needs some code rewrites before it can be released as initially combat ready, according to the head of Lockheed’s aeronautics division. The radar tracking parts of the mission systems software had problems, but the Lockheed executive said the problem...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 18, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
In a clever game of resource swapping, Germany is now receiving 20 Leopard 2A7 main battle tanks in return for having lent a number of Leopard 2 A6M tanks to Canada for its immediate needs in the Afghanistan deployment. Canada, as promised, procured 20 Leopards from...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 17, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Mark Welsh, the Air Force’s chief of staff, joined other brass in proclaiming continued desire to perform the close air support mission. Welsh himself was an A-10 pilot in the early 1980s. The Air Force has been simultaneously fighting the impression that it...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 16, 2015 | Contracts - Awards
Ukraine’s deal to sell Zubr hovercrafts made by the Feodosiya Shipyard to China was going along, with two of the landing craft delivered. There were disputes between it and Russia’s Almaz Shipbuilding about who owned the design (the craft does appear...
by Editorial Staff | Feb 13, 2015 | Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire
Russia’s Ilyushin aircraft company is testing out the mounting of bomb rails onto its Il-76MD transport aircraft. War Is Boring reports that Russia intends to field them in Tver, Orenburg, Pskov and Taganrog, conveniently close to potential future conquests. The...
