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LCS: The USA’s Littoral Combat Ships

by Joe Katzman | Mar 31, 2025 | Airbus, Americas, Asia, Asia - Other, BAE, Boeing, Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Corporation, Design Innovations, DID site, Electronics & IT, Eng. Control Systems, Expeditionary Warfare, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Forces - Naval, General Dynamics, Geographical Focus, IAI, Industry, Innovation, Interoperability, Israel, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Logistics & Support, Materials Innovations, Middle East & Africa, Military Overall, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, Naval Equipment, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Ordnance & Guns, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Doctrine, Politics, Power Projection, Procurement Innovations, Project Methodologies, Projects, Protective Systems - Naval, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Sensors - Aquatic, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation, Training & Exercises, Transformation, USA, UUVs & USVs, Warfare - Trends

Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet....

ER/MP Gray Eagle: Enhanced MQ-1C Predators for the Army

by Joe Katzman | Mar 19, 2025 | Budgets, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Delivery & Task Orders, Electronics - General, FOCUS Articles, Forces - Air, Forces - Land, General Atomics, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Transformation, UAVs, USA

ER/MP, armed (click to view full) Its initial battles were fought within the Pentagon, but the US Army's high-end UAV has made its transition to the battlefield. The ER/MP program was part of the US Army's reinvestment of dollars from the canceled RAH-66 Comanche...

US Marine Corps Test Launched LRPF Capability | Rheinmetall To Supply 390 Simulators To Netherlands | Indian Army Plans To Buy 1,000 Surveillance Helos

by Emily Erhold | Feb 19, 2025 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas The Colombian Air Force (FAC) is evaluating the potential inclusion of the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB3 drone into its fleet in an ongoing effort to modernize its capabilities. High-ranking FAC officials reportedly traveled to Ankara to assess the operational...

Lockheed And Boeing In Talks For Space Force Satellites | Norwegian Navy Received Minesweeping Sytems From Patria | Singapore Deployed USV

by Emily Erhold | Feb 13, 2025 | Daily Rapid Fire

Americas Lockheed Martin and Boeing are in a competition to build new military communication satellites for the US Space Force. Both companies have successfully passed early design reviews, allowing them to proceed to the next stage. Lockheed Martin emphasized its use...

Trident II D5 Missile: Keeping Up with Changing Times

by Fred Donovan | Feb 5, 2025 | BAE, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, FOCUS Articles, General Dynamics, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Ballistic, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Raytheon, Submarines, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other, USA

Trident II D5 Test Launch (click to view full) Nuclear tipped missiles were first deployed on board US submarines at the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, to deter a Soviet first strike. The deterrence theorists argued that, unlike their land-based cousins,...

France’s Rafale

by Joe Katzman | Feb 3, 2025 | Aircraft, Americas, Brazil, Canada, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Corporation, Electronics & IT, Europe, Fighters & Attack, France, Geographical Focus, Industry, Innovation, Logistics & Support, MBDA, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East & Africa, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Radars, Rumours, Support & Maintenance, Thales, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Dassault Rafale (click for cutaway view) Will Dassault's fighter become a fashionably late fighter platform that builds on its parent company's past successes - or just "the late Rafale"? It all began as a 1985 break-away from the multinational consortium that went on...

AMRAAM: Deploying & Developing America’s Medium-Range Air-Air Missile

by Joe Katzman | Dec 10, 2024 | Africa - Other, Asia - Central, Asia - Other, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Design Innovations, Europe - Other, Field Reports, FOCUS Articles, France, Israel, Japan, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Air-Air, Missiles - Surface-Air, New Systems Tech, Official Reports, Other Corporation, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Support & Maintenance, USA, Warfare - Trends

AIM-120C from F-22A (click for test missile zoom) Raytheon's AIM-120 Advanced, Medium-Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) has become the world market leader for medium range air-to-air missiles, and is also beginning to make inroads within land-based defense systems. It...

Eurofighter’s Future: Tranche 3, and Beyond

by Joe Katzman | Dec 6, 2024 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Engines - Aircraft, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, FOCUS Articles, Germany, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Rolls Royce

Italian Eurofighters (click to view full) The multi-national Eurofighter Typhoon has been described as the aerodynamic apotheosis of lessons learned from the twin engine "teen series" fighters that began with the F-14 and F-15, continued with the emergence of the...

The JAS-39 Gripen: Sweden’s 4+ Generation Wild Card

by Joe Katzman | Nov 15, 2024 | Africa - Other, Avionics, Contracts - Awards, Elbit Systems, Europe - Other, Fighters & Attack, Finmeccanica, FOCUS Articles, GE, Issues - Political, Lobbying, Other Corporation, People, R&D - Contracted, Radars, Support Functions - Other, Training & Exercises

South African JAS-39D (click to view full) As a neutral country with a long history of providing for its own defense against all comers, Sweden also has a long tradition of building excellent high-performance fighters with a distinctive look. From the long-serving...

Australia’s Troubled E-7A “Wedgetail” AWACS Program

by Joe Katzman | Nov 6, 2024 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Bases & Infrastructure, Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Corporate Financials, Events, Israel, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Project Failures, R&D - Contracted, Radars, Raytheon, Specialty Aircraft, Testing & Evaluation, Thales, Transformation, USA

E-7A Wedgetail over New South Wales (click to view full) The island continent of Australia faces a number of unique security challenges that stem from its geography. The continent may be separated from its neighbors by large expanses of ocean, but it also resides...

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