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...
EMB-314, FAD concept(click to view full) Brazil's EMB-314/ A-29 Super Tucano continues to be the aircraft of choice for Latin American air forces who want to conduct drug interdiction and counterinsurgency missions. Their modern trainer/ counterinsurgency concept is...
AMX/A-1 light fighter(click to view full) In the late 1980s, Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA (Embraer) and Aermacchi launched The AMX project, a joint Italian/Brazilian program to create a lead-in fighter trainer and light attack aircraft. The result was a...
VC10 & Tornado F3s(click to view full) As of 2002, the RAF had 19 of its 4-engined VC10 aerial tankers in service. These sleek aircraft with the unusual engine arrangement form the backbone of its aerial tanker fleet, and continued to do so for about another decade...
* The roll call that defeated the Amash-Conyers amendment to the FY14 House Appropriations bill was close enough that several congressmen have since the reiterated their support for or opposition against attempts to limit the NSA's phone data gathering. It seems...
The last quarterly report [PDF] from SIGIR (the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction) included an interview with OSC-I (Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq) head Lieutenant General Robert Caslen. Among other things, it provides an interesting breakdown of...
Gripen & S-1000/S340(click to view full) It's a small, agile fighter that can take off and land on highways, while carrying the latest technologies and weapons. It does very well against NATO's best aircraft in exercises, comes with a reasonable price tag, and is...
* The US Defense Acquisition University will host a workshop on (Better Buying Poker) Better Buying Power in Fort Belvoir, VA, on April 9. On the agenda: should cost, data rights, performance-based logistics. * Australia's phased withdrawal from Afghanistan will...
UAE C-17: 1st delivery(click to view full) The biggest news from the 2009 IDEX exhibition was the UAE's twin selections of medium (12 Lockheed C-130J) and heavy (4 Boeing C-17) transport aircraft. Estimates at the time placed the total value at AED 10.7 billion (about...
BAE's Hawk:over the top(click to view full) The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) spent 6 years chasing BAE Systems, over allegations that bribes were paid to secure foreign deals in a number of countries. Bribes are the least of the allegations involved in some...