F-35A and F/A-18(click to view full) The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is at least as much an industrial program as it is a fighter aircraft. The commitment stages involved have been carefully designed on all fronts, from the conflating of USMC, Navy, and Air...
USMC live firings(click to view full) Confronting tanks can be a terrifying experience for dismounted infantry, and armies around the world have looked for ways to equalize the odds ever since tanks were invented during World War I. The trick is making that equalizer...
Hermes 450(click to view full) Elbit Systems Ltd. recently announced [PDF] a contract to supply Hermes 450 UAV systems to "a country in the Americas" for the total of approximately $25 million. The Hermes 450 is currently in service with Israel, Britain (as the...
Shadow 200 in Iraq(click to view full) Limitations on UAV use are imposed by the threat of collisions between UAVs and manned aircraft. An RQ-7 Shadow UAV is definitely large enough to create real problems if it hits a helicopter or other aircraft, and a UAV's...
In 2006 Saudi Arabia announced a raft of arms purchases, from mobile howitzers, to helicopters, to advanced fighter aircraft. More requests have followed, including a controversial request for JDAM GPS-guided bombs. Many of these official requests have yet to turn...
The Air Force District of Washington/A7KI in Anacostia Annex, DC recently awarded a trio of contracts to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., of McLean, VA (FA7014-08-D-0008); Shafer Corp., of Chelmsford, MA (FA7014-08-D-0009); and Systems Research and Application Corporation...
Chilean A-37(click to view full) The A-37 Dragonfly was developed from the T-37 Tweet trainer as a counter-insurgency support aircraft, whereupon it was sent to Vietnam and became only aircraft to undergo operational testing in actual combat. The jet's slow speed,...
MaxxPro MRAP(click to view full) Mantech Telecommunications and Information Systems Corp. in Chantilly, VA received a $106 million time & materials contract for one lot of "route clearance equipment contractor logistics support services" in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Stryker M1128, Iraq(click to view full) The M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System faced issues since deployment in combat situations began in 2007. The Stryker MGS' most prominent feature is a 105mm auto-fed gun mounted on its wheeled LAV-III/ Piranha-III APC chassis....