Try one on!(click to view full) Sept. 25/12: Ops Core Inc. in Boston, MA, was awarded a $45.5M firm-fixed-price contract for Modular Integrated Communication Helmets (MICH). The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Natick, MA, is the contracting activity (W911QY-12-D-0033)....
* Sikorsky announced on Monday that they would close their Military Completions Center in Big Flats, NY, by the end of the year. That facility was developed in 2007, following the acquisition of Schweizer Aircraft in 2004, to prep Black Hawk and Naval Hawk helicopters...
Before: AH-64A(click to view full) With the collapse of the RAH-66 Comanche program, and rededication of its funding into the ARH-70 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH), the UH-145 Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), and other programs, the AH-64 Apache will remain the...
This way to the top Chinese authorities officially confirmed [government source, in Chinese] today that they commissioned the Liaoning (formerly the USSR's unfinished Riga then Varyag), their first aircraft carrier. * If there are American opponents to a BAE/EADS...
RV Kilo Moana(click to view full) The USA's University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System conducts research throughout the world's oceans, and their fleet has shifted to 4 basic research vessel types: Global, Ocean/Intermediate, Regional and Coastal/Local. From...
* China's first aircraft carrier was delivered to the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)... or was it really? After Vice President's Xi Jinping temporary disappearance for two weeks earlier this month for reasons that remain unclear, there's a disturbing level of...
French EC725, SAR(click to view full) In September 2012, the Thai Air Force signed an undisclosed contract with EADS Eurocopter for 4 EC725 medium search and rescue (SAR) helicopters. The twin-engine EC725 Cougar features a unique digital 4-axis autopilot, which is...
* Pentagon Comptroller Bob Hale told the House Armed Services Committee that he thought large cancellation fees would be largely avoidable in case sequestration was implemented. The Pentagon would focus on lowering quantities and postponing shipbuilding within...
Beretta 92/M9, firing(click to view full) In September 2012, Beretta USA Corp. in Accokeek, MD received a 5-year, $64 million firm-fixed-price contract for up to 100,000 of their M9 9mm Pistols. All of the pistols will be manufactured at the Beretta USA facility in...