* Taranis Rex: Named for the Celtic god of thunder, the GBP 143 million Taranis stealth unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) was unveiled by manufacturer BAE Systems. * US Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan says US pullout will mean more use of...
USN SH-60F Seahawk(click to view full) On July 2/10, the US DSCA announced [PDF] Tunisia's formal request to buy 12 refurbished US Navy SH-60F Seahawk utility Helicopters, plus associated equipment. The SH-60Fs would be offered as Excess Defense Articles (grant EDA...
USMC boot(click to view full) Combat boots remain one of the infantry's most important and least-appreciated pieces of gear. Unless you've served in the infantry, of course. After decades of "Army boots" being used as a term for old-fashioned, heavy, uncomfortable...
USNS Patuxent(click to view full) Oilers do what their name suggests: provide fuel to Navy ships at sea, and jet fuel to aircraft assigned to aircraft carriers. They're often overlooked, or considered secondary, but the truth is that the number, quality, and capacity...
* Boeing and Airbus submits KC-X aerial tanker bids, as World Trade Organization delays ruling on EU complaint against Boeing. * France's ONERA lab thinks they have a revolution in coastal surveillance radar design (incl. video), with 80% effectiveness out to 400 km...
(click to view full) Guest Article by Lou Crenshaw, Vice Admiral U.S. Navy (ret.) After a sustained period of sizable increases, growth in the DoD budget is expected to slow considerably starting in 2011. Defense discretionary spending is likely to be constrained by...
New USAF ABU(click to view full) In March 2006, "Fractal Creep: New Digitized Camo Uniforms for USAF, USN, Jordan" looked at some of the new fractal camouflage patterns emerging on the market, and the some of the design decisions behind the uniforms themselves. The...
US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic in Charleston, SC recently awarded an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple-award contract for telephony and telecommunications system maintenance and support throughout the contiguous...
Afghan commando trainees(click to view full) If the allied strategy in Afghanistan really rests on the eventual ability of their central government to handle the lion's share of the campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, its government will have to be able to...