While France plans to use its economic stimulus spending to accelerate key defense buys and add another Mistral Class amphibious operations ship, the USA appears to be taking a different approach. Congressional Quarterly magazine’s “Defense Firms Seek...
C-27J Spartan(click to view larger) Around the world, buyers of light military transport aircraft face 3 main choices: Alenia’s C-27J Spartan, EADS-CASA’s C-295M, or Russia’s AN-32. EADS-CASA began with notable leads in orders and customers over its...
M1A1 Overwatch, Iraq(click to view full) The lessons of Objective Peach, the pivotal Thunder Run, and the Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq proved that modern tanks still have a key role to play as the battlefield’s mobile behemoths – vehicles that can...
Writing in the December 2008 issue of Armed Forces Journal, Scott Hamilton conveys part of a protectionist sentiment that is rising in America. The target is outsourcing, which has taken large strides in China. It’s also picking up in India, and is even...
USS Kearsarge & LCACs(click to view full) The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge [LHD-3] has an innovative crew that has saved the Navy money, but she still needs maintenance just like every other ship. BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair in Norfolk, VA received a...
