Used to be ours...(click to view full) Back in 1991, Canada's Mulroney government sold the country's CH-47 Chinook medium-lift helicopter fleet to the Dutch. They cost a lot to maintain and operate, and Canada didn't need them anyway. Or so they thought. Fast forward...
* Records gathered by the Pentagon and analyzed by RAND show how Iraqi extremists withstood U.S. anti-terror efforts. Sustained funding is a top predictor of a guerrilla/terrorist movement's long-term viability. * Senator John McCain [R-AZ, SASC] may be isolated, but...
* France's foreign affairs minister Laurent Fabius is the first of a series of Western officials to meet with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and is #2 Arun Jaitley to discuss what some hope may be a new wave of defense acquisitions. Fabius is eager to finalize...
Pacific 24 RIB(click to view full) Britain's Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British Army, and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Police have about 1,450 small boats that need to be maintained. They include offshore raiding craft, pontoons up to 50 metres in length, police...
* Germany's defense minister Ursula von der Leyen might think that "Russia has destroyed a massive amount of trust" and claim that her country "wants to take on more responsibility", echoing recent declarations from the Germans. But in practice Germany's role in UN...
* American officials say Iran is flying surveillance UAVs over Iraq as well as sending supplies and equipment to the Maliki government. * FT: Iran-Saudi proxy war heats up as Isis entrenches in Iraq. Recent developments indicated a thaw might be starting between the...
* Turkey seems determined to go ahead with their local TF-X fighter, which is being designed in conjunction with Saab, rather than become part of a Korean-led KF-X. To that effect they have just solicited bids from GE and PW for the research project's engine. *...
Hoefyster/ Badger -Denel concept(click to view full) DID has covered a number of contracts for wheeled armored personnel carriers; in Europe, the 3 perennial combatants are GD-MOWAG's Piranha/LAV, GD-Steyr's Pandur II, and Patria's Armored Modular Vehicle (AMV). Now...
* DARPA is organizing an industry day on July 10 in Arlington, VA to discuss Blue Wolf, a program meant to create prototypes of undersea vehicles that go beyond the speed-range boundaries of existing fixed-size platforms. There is $13.9M in the agency's FY15 budget...