by Editorial Staff | Apr 9, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, Boeing, China, Daily Rapid Fire, France, Laser & EM Weapons, Official Reports, Russia, Satellites & Sensors, South Korea, Thales, USA
* The US Navy will deploy a solid-state laser aboard USS Ponce during the coming fiscal year. USS Ponce, an amphibious transport dock ship formerly known as LDP 15, was refitted last year as an Afloat Forward Staging Base, Interim (AFSB-I), and will be deployed to the...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 8, 2013 | Budgets, China, Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, France, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Submarines, USA
* The Pentagon will ask for $526.6B in the President Budget to be rolled out on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg. Pretending that sequestration does not exist worked out so well, they’re about to do it again with the FY14 budget. The House of Representatives...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 5, 2013 | Asia - Other, Brazil, Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, Think Tanks, WMD Proliferation
* British Prime Minister David Cameron is not ruling out defense budget cuts after 2015 (video embedded below), but he’s arguing that the country is getting significant equipment upgrades for the money, and that the nuclear deterrent should be preserved. The...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 4, 2013 | Britain/U.K., Budgets, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, France, Germany, Nuclear Weapons, Turkey, USA, WMD Proliferation
* In a speech at the National Defense University, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the usual laudable calls for acquisition reform without quite explaining what would make it happen. Hagel asked for time and flexibility – as if huge bureaucracies ever...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 3, 2013 | Airbus, Daily Rapid Fire, India, Leadership & People, Legal
* Russian president Vladimir Putin wants to use loans to support armament sales but: “these loans must be based on market principles and not be like the loans the Soviet Union used to accord for ideological reasons, and that no one ever saw again. Our work in...
