Hezbollah/Iran's rockets In the aftermath of the 2006 war between Iran/Syria proxies Hezbollah and Israel, after action reviews and assessments began to trickle in. While war is inseparable in practice from political strategy, and the Olmert government's interference...
Death from above(click to view larger) The Viper Strike began life as the BAT - a canceled munition option for ground-fired ATACMS missiles. After USAF Predator UAVs armed with Hellfire missiles began to show promise in the Global War on Terror, however, US Army...
* The RAND Corporation has a few interesting maps in its review of the US overseas military presence and the related strategic choices. * The latest Crosstalk [PDF] covers how to build resilient cyber ecosystems. * Maintream media coverage of the Palantir vs. DCGS-A...
The Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory serves as a U.S. Navy UARC (University Affiliated Research Center) in Defense science and technologies, with a focus in naval missions and related areas. In September 2012, they were awarded a 5-year,...
* The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on the rationale for Performance-Based Logistics (PBL): There are 9 contracts among the services to support [the T700] aircraft engine, plus some DLA contracts. That sounds like someone put together a bunch of contracts without...
MBITR on 101st in Iraq(click to view full) Tactical radios are one of the quiet lifelines of the battlefield. They can also be be a very quiet pain in the nether regions. After-action reviews by US troops in Iraq have cited lack of compatibility among available...
* With the US Congress back from recess this week, Senator John McCain [R-AZ] released selected quotes from the CEOs of the major primes pointing to the uncertainty and disruption associated with sequestration. Meanwhile the OMB is past its deadline on the report...
* The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its interim report [PDF] on the pretroleum-related logistics capabilities of the Afghan National Army (ANA). NATO's Combined Security Transition Command in Afghanistan (NTM-A/CSTC-A) has...
FAB S-70 in Bolivia(click to view larger) Brazil relies heavily on Bell Helicopter and Eurocopter models for its armed forces, and a billion-dollar deal with Eurocopter made the Eurocopter EC725 Cougar Brazil's standard medium helicopter across all 3 services....