by Joe Katzman | May 21, 2012 | Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Middle East - Other, Support & Maintenance, USA
Tony Stark approves(click to view full) In May 2012, Boeing in Huntsville, AL received an $83 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, for “engineering services in support of the Avenger weapon system.” Work will be performed in Huntsville, AL until March...
by Joe Katzman | May 21, 2012 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Boeing, Britain/U.K., General Dynamics, India, IT - Cyber-Security, Middle East - Other, Other Corporation, Policy - Doctrine, Surface Ships - Other, Think Tanks, Transport & Utility, USA, Warfare - Lessons
* NATO and Pakistan have not found an agreement on reopening transport routes out of Afghanistan. The fact Pakistan tried to increase the price per truck by a factor of 20 might have something to do with it. If allied combat troops are to withdraw by mid-2013 and...
by Joe Katzman | May 18, 2012 | India, Russia
From RIA Novosti’s op-ed feature “India’s Arms Market: Everyone In, Nobody Out” : “The Indian arms market is an extraordinary place even by the standards of the markets of the Gulf oil monarchies, which buy weapons indiscriminately,...
by Editorial Staff | May 18, 2012 | Africa - Other, Asia - Other, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Japan, Official Reports
Not a “heart” emoticon The US Department of Defense released its annual report [PDF] to Congress on Chinese military developments. Analysis of spending is pretty bare-bones: “Using 2011 prices and exchange rates, DoD estimates China’s total...
by Joe Katzman | May 17, 2012 | Airbus, Americas - Other, Budgets, C4ISR, Contracts - Intent, Domestic Security, Events, Issues - International, Specialty Aircraft, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
Mexican CN-235 MPA(click to view full) Mexico’s military needs have escalated, as the country faces what counter-terrorist analyst John Robb has called a growing “open source insurgency” composed primarily of narco-traffickers, with some leftist...
