LITENING AT on US F-16C(click to view full) The Royal Netherlands Air Force, which has already selected RAFAEL’s REECELITE pod for aerial reconaissance, recently selected [release in Dutch] Northrop Grumman & RAFAEL’s 3rd-generation LITENING Advanced...
S-70B Seahawk(click to view full) In June 2005 the government of Turkey and Sikorsky signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy 12-17 S-70 Seahawk helicopters for the Turkish Navy. Sikorsky just announced that it has managed to turn that MoU into a contract with the...
Press conference(click to view full) Donald Rumsfeld resigned as US Secretary of Defense on Wednesday, November 8, 2006. Former CIA chief Robert Gates has been nominated as his replacement. There has been a fair bit of commentary on Rumsfeld’s tenure, much of...
“We feeeel the need…” DARPA’s Underwater Express Program has a characteristically brief description. It is intended to: “…demonstrate stable and controllable high-speed underwater transport through supercavitation. The intent is to...
C-130J Hercules(click to view full) The privately-developed C-130J Hercules variant has been the subject of heavy criticism and a 2005 near-death budget experience, followed by its reinstatement by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on grounds that cancelling the contract...
