Do Buy… Airliners * Day 1 of the Dubai airshow broke records yesterday in the airliner world, but on the military side the UAE still hasn’t decided which jets to acquire, despite hands-on business development help from UK Prime Minister David Cameron....
LWPS(click to view full) You can live for weeks without food. A week without water will leave you dead, especially if you’re exerting yourself in unfriendly conditions. More bad news: water is heavy to carry, which means it takes a lot of resources to transport....
Marder 1A3(click to view full) In August 2012, reports emerged that Indonesia had made a deal with Germany to buy heavy tanks and infantry carriers, after the Dutch had demurred. The Indonesian Army has a long record of human rights abuses, which sparked considerable...
FAC Kfir C7(click to view larger) Years of unswerving pressure from the Colombian army wore down the narco-terrorist FARC. Much of that pressure was led by the popular (former) President Uribe, who ruled out a bid for constitutional amendments and an attempt at a 3rd...
DoD to Focus on Data Rights * Katrina McFarland, assistant secretary of defense (acquisition), wants to push program managers to move away from closed systems such as those used on the F-22: “What have you done to make your system open, and why? Where did you...
