by Joe Katzman | Mar 9, 2009 | Australia & S. Pacific, Fighters & Attack, MBDA, Missiles - Air-Air, Testing & Evaluation
ASRAAM on RAAF F/A-18A(click to view full) Key advances have been made in short-range air-to-air missiles and work well in combination with helmet-mounted sights. The combination of new wide-angle ‘staring’ seekers, exponential growth in onboard computer...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 8, 2009 | Avionics, Helicopters & Rotary, Industry & Trends, IT - Cyber-Security, Middle East - Other, Security & Secrecy, Transformation, USA, Warfare - Trends
VH-3D (top), VH-60N(click to view full) P2P Intelligence firm Tiversa claims that in Oct/Nov 2008, it traced a file that contains details regarding the VH-60N Presidential Helicopter’s CAAS avionics architecture, and some program financial data, on public-access...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 8, 2009 | Boeing, Chemicals & HAZMAT, Lockheed Martin, Support Functions - Other, USA
Worker Safety isn’t often given much thought outside the companies who build defense technologies. The dangers may not be as obvious as those facing skyscraper construction crews, but the nature of these technologies can create challenges in their own right. The...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 5, 2009 | Contracts - Awards, Electronics - General, GE, Helicopters & Rotary, Specialty Aircraft, USA
MV-22, landing(click to view full) March 2/09: GE Aviation Systems, LLC in Grand Rapids, MI received a $12.1 million ceiling-priced indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for aircraft recorders. The order includes 27 Crash Survivable Memory Units (CSMU) for...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 4, 2009 | Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Engines & Propulsion - Naval, Other Corporation, Submarines, Support Functions - Other
SSBN Vanguard Class(click to view larger) Britain’s 16,000t Vanguard Class nuclear missile submarine HMS Vigilant (S30) has been moved into Plymouth for a GBP 300 million (currently $422 million) overhaul that will take about 42 months to complete. At it’s...
