by Editorial Staff | Jun 7, 2013 | Alliances, Asia - Central, Canada, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Middle East - Other, Polar Regions, Protective Systems - Naval, Russia, Submarines, USA
* US NAVSEA conducted last month tests of its Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) system from USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77). * Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) delivered Minnesota (SSN 783) to the US Navy. It’s their 10th Virginia-class submarine. * Should...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 6, 2013 | Alliances, Americas - Other, Asia - Central, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, Helicopters & Rotary, India, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, South Korea, Think Tanks, Transport & Utility, USA
* CEO of Airbus Military Domingo Ureña-Raso said the company was mulling developing a 16-18t transport aircraft, below C-130s and roughly at Embraer’s level with its KC-390. * In the absence of having been proven guilty, AgustaWestland wants to be paid the funds...
by Joe Katzman | Jun 5, 2013 | Contracts - Awards, Delivery & Task Orders, Israel, Logistics, Oshkosh, Other Corporation, Trucks & Transport, USA
LVSR comes ashore(click to view full) Why are trucks a big deal? Because they are the unglamorous but very necessary backbone of any mobile military force. The US Marines certainly fit the description of a mobile force, and Oshkosh Defense supplies their MTVR medium...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 5, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, C4ISR, Daily Rapid Fire, Engineering Vehicles, Europe - Other, Germany, India, Issues - Political, Logistics, Pre-RFP, Surface Ships - Other, Think Tanks, UAVs, USA
* Contributing to a sudden, redoubled effort from interest groups to pressure the US government into starting significant reforms at the Pentagon, the conservative National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and R Street Institute released a report [PDF] outlining yet another...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 4, 2013 | Budgets, Contracts - Awards, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Industry & Trends, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Japan, Legal, Lobbying, Nuclear Weapons, Policy - Doctrine, Russia, Signals Radio & Wireless, South Korea, Think Tanks, Turkey, UAVs, USA
* The US Navy posted a summary [obnoxious text-as-image format, because PDF would have been too easy] of the Air-Sea Battle (ASB) concept which even has its own office. Summary of the summary: the US needs to relearn how to fight enemies with better gear than...
