* "War on Waste" - DoD CIO and Business Transformation Agency, along with JFCOM, will be casualties of Defense Secretary Gates' $100 billion effort to trim the defense budget; support contractors will be cut by 10% per year over 3 years. But will it really save money,...
* Russia is moving to reduce reliance on the Ukraine for defense industrial work. * ITT to sell off its CAS defense systems engineering and technical assistance unit in Huntsville, AL to Wyle for $235 million in an effort to expand in non-defense segments. * Christmas...
MK47 Striker40(click to view full) 40mm grenade machine guns (GMGs) like the Mk19 are extremely effective weapons against lightly protected opponents, offering fast firepower overmatch against superior numbers. This has made them an increasingly popular choice on the...
* Footlong Sub: Iranian navy takes delivery of 4 Ghadir class midget submarines, the 1st Iranian-built class of submarine, which is thought to be based on the North Korean Sang-O class coastal submarine. * Bulking Up: Iran says it is beefing up its indigenous Mersad...
F910 Wielingen(click to view full) Bulgaria's government recently allocated BGN 256 million (about EUR 131M/ $174M) from the country's fiscal reserve in order to complete a number of arms deals, lest it find key defense items repossessed. Bulgaria is actually one of...
* USAF 59th Medical Wing Clinical Research division at Lackland AFB, TX are studying vascular injuries and their effects on limbs, based on field experience in Iraq and Afghanistan where these injuries are 75% more common than previous wars. Their subject model...
* The Israeli approach linking threats to military budgeting... and their "Talpiot" program that has started plucking top 18 year olds out of standard military service and putting them to work solving key problems in the government, military and industry. * They'll...
* Chinese Exercises: China is conducting major air defense exercises in Shandong and Henan provinces involving more than 10,000 troops from the naval and army aviation units and land-based air defense forces, as well as 100 aircraft, including the J-10 fighter. * How...