Latest updates: New helicopters arrive; Crash in Afghanistan. RAAF & US CH-47Ds(click to view full) After decades as a largely unheralded workhorse, the distinctive, twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook medium-heavy lift helicopter has suddenly become the belle of the ball....
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* Poland has ordered another 5 of Airbus Military's C295 light tactical transports, for an undisclosed price. That will bring its fleet to 16, making Poland the type's biggest single customer. * The 3,750t Dutch OPV, HNLMS Holland, is impressing American allies over...
* The Government Accountability Office updated its cost estimates of the last round of US base realignments and closures (BRAC 2005) and concluded that net savings came at less than 28% of the $35.6B originally expected. Ironically the main culprit is one-off...
UK M270+(click for before & after) In June 2012, Lockheed Martin announced a $27.1 million contract from the U.S. Army for Phase 1 of a 3-year development program to update its fleet of 225 M270A1 tracked Multiple Launch Rocket System launchers. Lockheed Martin will...
US ORNL laser test(click to view full) Readers who follow the tech press may be familiar with the concept of quantum computing. Computers use binary bits: on/off, yes/no, represented by 0 or 1. A quantum bit, or qubit, can be 1, or 0... or both. Whereas 111 = 7 in...
* United Technologies subsidiary Pratt & Whitney Canada pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and making false statements in connection with its export to China of US-origin military software used in the development of China's Z-10 attack helicopter....
* The US Missile Defense Agency's FTM-18 test goes well, as the AEGIS BMD 4.0.1/ SM-3 block IB missile combination tracks & hits a separating ballistic missile target. That's the same configuration that will be used on land in Europe, as of 2015. * Meanwhile, the...
* The CEOs of prime contractors including Lockheed Martin and EADS North America met with US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to discuss how to avoid next year's pending budget sequester. A previous meeting of industry bigwigs with the White House's budget office did...