by Joe Katzman | Jan 15, 2009 | Asia - Central, C4ISR, Contracts - Intent, Corporate Innovations, Field Innovations, Helicopters & Rotary, Intelligence & PsyOps, Interoperability, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Policy - Doctrine, Transformation, UAVs, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
IqAF King Air 350-ISR(click to view full) In 2009, the Ottawa Citizen’s defense reporter David Pugliese reported that the US military was about to spend $100 million to upgrade the facilities at Kandahar, Afghanistan, in order to accommodate up to 26 aircraft...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 15, 2009 | Airbus, BAE, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Radars
Italian Eurofighters(click to view full) Fresh from brinksmanship around the go-forward plan for Europe’s multi-national A400M military transport, EADS has dived into another spat with European governments. The firm is reportedly threatening to suspend...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 14, 2009 | Budgets, France, Issues - Political, Surface Ships - Combat, USA
While France plans to use its economic stimulus spending to accelerate key defense buys and add another Mistral Class amphibious operations ship, the USA appears to be taking a different approach. Congressional Quarterly magazine’s “Defense Firms Seek...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 14, 2009 | Airbus, Contracts - Intent, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Lockheed Martin, Transport & Utility, USA
C-27J Spartan(click to view larger) Around the world, buyers of light military transport aircraft face 3 main choices: Alenia’s C-27J Spartan, EADS-CASA’s C-295M, or Russia’s AN-32. EADS-CASA began with notable leads in orders and customers over its...
by Joe Katzman | Jan 13, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Forces - Marines, Logistics Innovations, Tanks & Mechanized, USA, Warfare - Lessons
M1A1 Overwatch, Iraq(click to view full) The lessons of Objective Peach, the pivotal Thunder Run, and the Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq proved that modern tanks still have a key role to play as the battlefield’s mobile behemoths – vehicles that can...
