F/A-18F with tanks(click to view full) Smiths Aerospace Mechanical Systems – Santa Ana Inc. in Santa Ana, CA received a $13.1 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00421-00-C-0433) to exercise an option for the procurement of...
As the New Year approaches, DID thought we’d end on a different kind of note. A recent report from the United States Department of State notes that the USA has spent more than $1 billion over the past dozen years on humanitarian land mine removal efforts around...
V-22 Osprey The USA’s Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, MD has issued a series of contracts over the last week or so related to the twin-engine V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft. The V-22 Osprey remains controversial given its $100 million per...
ATFLIR on USMC F/A-18C DID has covered the ATFLIR’s success in theater over Iraq, and how it has changed the roles of the F/A-18 aircraft fitted with it. Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) combines three pods into one: a targeting FLIR, a laser...
Not counted.(click to view full) France booked arms export orders worth EUR 3.4 billion (about $4 billion) in 2004, and delivered EUR 7.1 billion (about $8.4 billion under current conversion rates) of military equipment to foreign buyers, according to the official...
