USCG Boutwell, Iraq(click to view larger) In June 2010, India’s largest privately-owned ship-builder, Pipavav Shipyard, won a Rs 2,600 crore (about $553.5 million) contract, as the lowest bidder to build 5 new 110m, 2,000t offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) for the...
SA80A2s, Iraq(click to view full) If fighting in Iraq was mostly about Close Quarters Battle, experience on the ground in Afghanistan is driving home the opposite imperative: marksmanship and lethality at range. US studies like the influential “Taking Back the...
M1151 w. Frag Kit 7(click to view full) BAE Systems Survivability Systems, Inc. in Fairfield, OH received a $52.7 million firm-fixed-priced requirements contract for 6,000 improved turret drive system retrofit kits, and field service representative support. Note the...
Not any time soon…?(click to view full) Greece made an about face on half of its future fighter order, switching from a EUR 4.9 billion contract (about $5.8 billion) for 60 EADS Eurofighters to a roughly $2 billion contract for 30 F-16C/D Block 50/52s as a...
ASLAV-25, Afghanistan(click to view full) The ASLAV is a variant of General Dynamics Land Systems’ LAV-II/LAV-25 wheeled armored vehicles, which are in use by the US Marines, Canadian military and other customers. GD MOWAG markets a similar vehicle as the...
