USMC M1-ABV(click to view full) Most main battle tanks have derivative Armored Engineering Vehicle variants. They sacrifice the main gun in order to provide powerful support for combat engineering tasks under fire, while keeping up with a mechanized brigade in any...
Dirgantara CN-235 MPA(click to view larger) Indonesia has more coastline to cover than almost any country in the world (2nd only to Canada), and its archipelago straddles one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints. On Dec 11/09, its defense ministry...
F-35 in the spotlight(click to view full) The $300 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program could well become the largest single weapon program in modern history. With the next Quadrennial Defense Review on the way, however, tensions are rising for the program amidst...
(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...
On Nov 17/09, J.F. Lehman & Company reached an agreement to sell Atlantic Inertial Systems to Goodrich Corporation, for about $375 million, subject to customary government approvals. AIS’ 2009 sales are expected to be approximately $180 million, but...
