by Fred Donovan | Nov 29, 2010 | ABM, Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Delivery & Task Orders, Electronics - General, Events, Fighters & Attack, Industry & Trends, Israel, IT - Cyber-Security, L3 Communications, Leadership & People, Materials Innovations, MBDA, Medical, Memoriam, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Other, News, Partnerships & Consortia, Raytheon, Sensors & Guidance, Simulation & Training, Thales, University-related, USA, Warfare - Lessons
* Afghan poppy production down by half, creating heroin shortages on Britain’s streets. Pity. That pleospora papaveracea sure is potent. Nothing like having a lot of Taliban foreigners traipsing through the poppy fields, to ensure that outbreaks spread… *...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 29, 2010 | Engineering Vehicles, Europe - Other, Other Corporation, Tanks & Mechanized
Swiss Pz 87(click to view full) Switzerland became a Leopard 2 tank customer under Armament Program 84, with 380 Leopard 2A4 variants delivered as “Pz 87s” from 1987-1993. The Swiss military has been drawing down sharply over the last decade and a half,...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 29, 2010 | Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Small Business, Support Functions - Other, USA
White Sands Missile Range(click to view full) New Mexico Technology Group, LLC in El Paso, TX recently won a 6-year, $84.4 million cost-plus-award-fee contract for mission support services, to support the testing mission at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The 3,200...
by Fred Donovan | Nov 28, 2010 | Asia - Other, Britain/U.K., China, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Force Structure, Forces - Land, France, Issues - Environmental, Issues - Political, IT - General, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Other, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Surface Ships - Combat, Tanks & Mechanized, Thales, Transformation, USA
* Playing the field: Only weeks after the US Congress broke the deadlock on $100 million in military aid to Lebanon, Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri visits Tehran and appeals for closer military cooperation with Iran. * Red flag: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says China is...
by Joe Katzman | Nov 28, 2010 | Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, France, Other Corporation, Rockets
AT4 firing -note backblast(click to view full) Sweden’s Saab Bofors Dynamics recently announced a SEK 150 million ($18.6M/ EUR 14M) order for its AT4-CS infantry rockets. This is France’s 4th order for the unguided system, following purchases in 1996,...
