by Joe Katzman | Jul 9, 2012 | Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Specialty Aircraft, Transport & Utility
Latest updates: ISR ground stations delivered, project progress report. Finnish C-295M(click to view full) In May 2006, the Finnish Air Force officially selected EADS CASA’s C-295M as its next generation tactical transport aircraft. They will replace...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 9, 2012 | Australia & S. Pacific, Bombs - Smart, Brazil, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, France, Lockheed Martin, Other Corporation, Radars, Raytheon, United Technologies
* France has begun qualification trials of Sagem/MBDA’s dual-mode laser/GPS-guided SBU-64 AASM Hammer rocket-assisted smart bombs. * Meanwhile, Raytheon found a novel way to integrate its competing Enhanced Paveway laser/GPS smart bombs onto France’s...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 8, 2012 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Support Functions - Other, Transport & Utility, USA
This is the end…(click to view full) In July 2012, Boeing in Long Beach, CA received a $500 million contract for the orderly transfer of the manufacturing assets and data used to produce the C-17A Globemaster III heavy transport, once production ends. Work will...
by Joe Katzman | Jul 6, 2012 | Airbus, Asia - Other, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Events, Fighters & Attack, France, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, USA
* A parliamentary majority opposed to buying the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has emerged in the Netherlands. Despite lobbying from the MvD, and 2 planes ordered already, the issue seems set to come to a vote. If the vote goes badly, the cost of ending the...
by Editorial Staff | Jul 5, 2012 | Asia - Central, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Logistics, Russia
* NATO supplies started crossing the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan earlier today, after months of negotiation, and the eventual apology from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the deaths in November 2011 of Pakistani soldiers. Releasing withheld...
