by Editorial Staff | Dec 11, 2014 | Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, France, Legal, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, UAVs
* Readers can decide for themselves what the latest GAO report on regulatory efforts over UAV integration in the US national airspace may say about the Administration’s priorities, or the state of the US economy as a whole: “As of December 4, 2014, FAA...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 10, 2014 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Tanks & Mechanized
For sale The Netherlands and Estonia signed an agreement on Dec. 9/14 for the sale of 44 CV 9035NL Mk-III tracked infantry fighting vehicles. These vehicles are used but were acquired in recent years before the Netherlands decided it no longer needed them, or more...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 10, 2014 | Brazil, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, France, Pre-RFP, Scandals & Investigations, United Technologies, USA
* Last week Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon reported that according to US officials China had conducted its 3rd test of a hypersonic missile. Chinese officials seemed to implicitly confirm the test in the state-run China Daily today. * Yu Long is the second...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 9, 2014 | Airbus, Canada, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Russia, Tanks & Mechanized, USA
* The state-owned Russian TASS agency quotes Pavel Sozinov, an armament designer at Almaz-Antey: “Russia is working on an equivalent of the THAAD missile defense complex, which is capable of intercepting ballistic intermediate range missiles and, to a certain...
by Editorial Staff | Dec 8, 2014 | Asia - Central, Asia - Other, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DID site, Israel, Mergers & Acquisitions, United Technologies
* It’s not an official request yet, but Afghan President Ashraf Ghani would like the US to slow its drawdown in the next 2 years. US Industry * According to the WSJ former United Technologies CEO Louis Chenevert left the company after its board discussed...
