Super Tucano(click to view full) In January 2009, "8 Super Tucanos to Dominican Republic" added that a 24 plane sale worth up to $280 million was also pending to Ecuador, on South America's west-central coast. Embraer has now confirmed that sale. The Fuerza Aerea...
Begun in 2001, IDEX in the United Arab Emirates has become the Middle East's biggest defense show. The UAE is a significant buyer in its own right, as illustrated in "UAE Announces Deals at IDEX 2007," which covered a range of deals for advanced aerial tankers,...
MiG-35D(click to view full) As Sukhoi's SU-30 family of large, multi-role fighters has come to dominate Russian aircraft exports over the past decade, the positions of Sukhoi and MiG have reversed. Now MiG is the deeply secondary design bureau, and Sukhoi is the firm...
F-35A AA-1(click to view full) The F-35 Lightning II is a major multinational program intended to produce an "affordably stealthy" multi-role strike fighter that will have three variants: the F-35A conventional version for the US Air Force et. al.; the F-35B Short...
DRASH interior(click to view full) On Dec 10/08, the US DSCA announced a slew of official requests from Iraq to buy military equipment. Some of these requests will represent important upgrades for Iraq's combat structure as a whole, such as the return of offensive air...
PT6 engine(click to view full) United Technologies subsidiary Pratt & Whitney is well known around the world as a manufacturer of turbine engines for aircraft, helicopters, and even industrial uses. Within that firm, its Canadian subsidiary has a well established...
EMB-145 Erieye(click to view full) As Southeast Asia's growing prosperity and political challenges filter down to it military buys, equipment in the region continues to become more sophisticated. An influx of modern submarines around critical ocean chokepoints has...
GBU-39 test Israel was the first non-US customer for JDAM kits, which turn ordinary bombs into GPS-guided precision smart weapons. In August 2007, they submitted a request for thousands more JDAMs through official channels. They also build their own GPS-guided...
Dutch F-16B(click to view full) In April 2006, our Benelux subscriber David Vandenberghe lets us know that the Gazet van Antwerpen is reporting that Jordan is acquiring surplus F-16 A/B fighters which underwent the MLU (mid-life upgrade). DID noted in November 2005...
Chilean A-37(click to view full) The A-37 Dragonfly was developed from the T-37 Tweet trainer as a counter-insurgency support aircraft, whereupon it was sent to Vietnam and became only aircraft to undergo operational testing in actual combat. The jet's slow speed,...