UH-60Q MEDEVAC(click to view larger) On Dec 10/10, the Pentagon announced a pair of contracts covering the "overhaul, repair and recapitalization" of the Army's H-60 helicopter fleet. The US Army operates a variety of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter types, including a...
* Macroeconomics matter: are we all living in Allentown now? * BAE Systems to cut 1,300 jobs due to UK defense budget cuts, particularly the cancellation of the company's Nimrod MRA4 and Harrier contracts. * EU defense ministers say members should pool defense...
* SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule launch successfully (webcast & tweets | PDF briefing | Space.com). This is the first flight under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) project, and the 1st new American human capable spacecraft to...
* Wikileaks, and China's role in North Korea's nuclear weapons program. * The value of US defense contracts to Massachusetts businesses has almost tripled since 2001, reaching $15.6 billion last year. * Reality disconnect, Example 1,754,348: Gen. Cartwright says the...
(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...
PS-701 Fatah(click to view full) On Nov 30/10, the US DSCA announced [PDF] Iraq's formal request to buy naval Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, which can help it monitor and defend critical...
* USNI Blog: Pearl Harbor - 69 years later. * Japan to adopt new deterrence strategy against China in first revision of its National Defense Program Guideline in 6 years. * Australian Department of Defence is asking for industry help in developing a cybersecurity...
Guest Article by Mike McNamara, Michael Zolandz, Peter Feldman & Jeffrey Krilla. Among many sobering revelations coming out of the latest Wikileaks document dump - another quarter-million pages of classified documents posted - is that absolutely everyone is worried...
* Northern exposure: New South Korean Defense Minister Kim says country should refocus its military capabilities to deal with threat from North. * Decline and fall: Could European military budget cuts undermine the continent's international clout even further? *...