by Editorial Staff | Mar 8, 2012 | Airbus, Budgets, China, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, IT - Cyber-Security, Robots, Soldier's Gear, USA
* EADS announced they grew yearly revenue by 7.4% to 49.1 billion euros in 2011 (about $65B). Growth was driven by Airbus Commercial (their best year ever) and Eurocopter (whose revenue was 47% military). The Airbus Military business lost 6.7% from 2010 to 2.5 billion...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 7, 2012 | Alliances, Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Design Innovations, Fighters & Attack, Israel, Issues - International, Missiles - Ballistic, Missiles - Precision Attack, Official Reports, Other Corporation, Russia, Warfare - Lessons
* The US Air Force made its FY13 force structure announcement [PDF] to reflect its strategic guidance [PDF] in how its manpower is allocated. Its reserve is to change about 3,000 jobs in FY13. * An F-35A Lightning II made – in the words of Team Eglin Public...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 6, 2012 | Airbus, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Robots
* The US Army intends to perform a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) and On-Condition Cyclic Maintenance (OCCM) on its fleet of 34 Landing Craft Utility 2000 (LCU 2000) vessels. They are in service since 1990 and were originally planned for a 25-year service life,...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 5, 2012 | Brazil, Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Food-related, Issues - Political, Legal, Logistics, Logistics Innovations, USA
* China is officially announcing that its 2012 budget is increasing by 11.2% to about $106B. It is broadly agreed that this significantly understates total military spending. After about 25 years of double-digit growth China is now clearly the second biggest defense...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 4, 2012 | Airbus, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Intent, Fighters & Attack, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Air-Air, Other Corporation, Radars, Rumours, Tanks & Mechanized, Transformation, Trucks & Transport
Latest updates: Civil war ends; Hydrocarbon output back up; Post-Gadhaffi, France to refurbish Mirage F1s. SU-35 flight, 2008(click to view full) After a long hiatus in major arms purchases, and an equally long fall from its status as an ultra-modern Soviet arms...
