JS Myoko(click to view full) The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a pair of requests from Japan for Standard-family naval air and missile defense systems. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $528 million. The...
ScanEagle BCAS(click for alternate view) Boeing Phantom Works and a team of U.S. bio-defense companies have been given a two-year $8.2 million Phase I contract to modify the Boeing/Insitu ScanEagle unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to look for biological warfare agents as...
United Technologies Corp., whose subsidiaries include Sikorsky and Pratt & Whitney, has entered into a $283 million settlement of government contract accounting matters with the U.S. Department of Defense. The agreement ends litigation over Pratt &...
F312 KNM Otto Svedrup(click to view full) Guest Article by Endre Lunde On June 1st, The Norwegian navy sailed its newest acquisition, the KNM Fridtjof Nansen, into the heart of Oslo. The stealthy 5,100 tonne Spanish-built frigate marks the beginning of its class,...
Not yet. Japan is finding itself hemmed in these days by increasingly hostile and dangerous neighbours. Whether the issue is the unstable Kim Jong-Il of North Korea with his drive for nuclear weapons and penchant for launching missile tests that travel over Japan, or...
