* After long negotiations between its ministry of finance and defense officials, Israel’s defense budget looks set to be reduced by 3 billion sheqels (about $830M) in 2014, with 1 NIS billion in reserves used to dampen cuts that were initially expected to be...
* Raytheon Missile Systems announced it completed test flights of the control test vehicle (CTV) for the Counter-Rocket Artillery Mortar(C-RAM) Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative (AI3). In February 2013 the US Army had announced a sole sourced 5-year IDIQ...
* Israel told the US that they suspect Russia intends to sell 4 S-300 missile batteries – for a total of 144 missiles – to Syria, according to the WSJ. For what it’s worth, Russia is also setting up an international conference with the US to resolve...
Spilling her guts out * In response’s to the Pentagon’s latest assessment of Chinese military capability, China issued their usual credulity-stretching denials. Of course everybody spies on everybody, and China has been caught again and again with their...
No lack of friction points * The Pentagon released its annual report [PDF] to Congress on military developments in China. The excitable media is getting their panties in a bunch over the explicit denunciation of Chinese attacks that could help map “military...
