by Joe Katzman | Jan 13, 2006 | Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Electronics - General, Europe - Other, Israel, Middle East - Other, Mines & Countermine-IED, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Other Equipment - Land, Policy - Doctrine, Signals Radio & Wireless, Warfare - Trends
Polish patrol, Iraq(click to view full) Elbit Systems’ 100% subsidiary Elisra Electronic Systems has received an order estimated at $3 million from the Polish Ministry of Defense for its unique EJAB (Electronic Jammer Against Bombs) system. Designed to thwart...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 13, 2006 | Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Other Equipment - Land, Policy - Procurement, Rockets, USA
M270 MLRS, firing(click to view full) In DID’s recent coverage of US contracts for the M142 HIMARS expeditionary rocket artillery system and the purchase of (unspecified) rockets with DPICM cluster bomblets, DID mistakenly identified the rocket system as the...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 13, 2006 | DID site, Submarines
USS San Francisco(click to view full) Reader Chris Doyle of General Dynamics Electric Boat writes in with a valid complaint. He notes that a past DID article had placed a caption of “Uhhh…Dad…” below the photo seen here, and argued it was...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 12, 2006 | Budgets, Fighters & Attack, Force Structure, Heavy Bombers, Issues - Political, Official Reports, Specialty Aircraft, Transport & Utility, USA
The end for the U-2?(click to view full) DefenseTech notes that a draft plan from the US Air Force plan (“program budget decision 720”) intends to retire the USA’s 33 U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, its 55 F-117 stealth fighters, 38 of its 76 C-21...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 12, 2006 | Avionics, Boeing, Design Innovations, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Procurement Innovations, Testing & Evaluation, USA
MIL-STD-1553 Core In September 2005, DID wrote an article pointing out that the need for data transfer speed was taking military avionics in two directions – one that depended on the old reliable MIL-STD-1553 data bus standard, and another that looked to faster...
