* The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recommends [PDF] to grow US-Brazil defense trade through the promotion of corporate partnerships and easing technology transfer. The Institute for National Strategic Studies makes a similar assessment [PDF]...
Latest updates: FY 2012 order. APOBS The MK7 MOD 2 Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System (APOBS) is used to clear mines or wire obstacles, and create a safe footpath for troops. APOBS can be carried by 2 people, takes 30 to 120 seconds to be set up, and fires a...
* The Congressional Research Service updated their report [PDF] on international conventional weapon sales with 2011 data. Agreements for new sales from the US to developing nations boomed above $56B or a close to 80% market share, leaving #2 Russia far behind. The...
Come onYou can do this! Army Sustainment explains the intricacies involved in recovering an RG-31 MRAP that rolled over last year on "little more than a goat trail" in Northern Afghanistan. Plan A involved lifting the ditched vehicle with a massive MRAP Recovery...
* The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a short report [PDF] on the effects of sequestration, though they note that their estimates are not binding, as it's the Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that has authority to determine how cuts...
Mavericks got better eyesight as they aged The US DSCA notified Congress [PDF] on August 21, 2012 of Indonesia's request for 18 AGM-65K2 Maverick missiles, 36 TGM-65K2 Captive Air Training Missiles, 3 TGM-65D Maintenance Training Missiles, and the necessary services...
2007 signing(click to view full) On Sept 5/07, The Australia-United States Treaty on Defense Trade Cooperation was signed by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US President George W. Bush. The USA and Canada have had a special agreement for several decades,...
* It seems recent outreach efforts from US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and his deputy Ash Carter might be paying off: according to the Times of India a $1.4B order for 22 AH-64D Apache helicopters (and assorted weapons) is about to be signed. However such...
* President Obama sticks to presenting a binary choice "between sequester going through or tax cuts continuing for millionaires and billionaires" as if these were the only two possible options. * Australia passed legislation banning the use of cluster munitions....