One of the driving forces behind Airbus' A400M military transport program, and of "pool" programs like NATO's SALIS with Russian AN-124s or its recent SAC C-17 pool, is Europe's shortage of transport aircraft to support military missions. This shortage will not be...
* Last week Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon reported that according to US officials China had conducted its 3rd test of a hypersonic missile. Chinese officials seemed to implicitly confirm the test in the state-run China Daily today. * Yu Long is the second...
* The state-owned Russian TASS agency quotes Pavel Sozinov, an armament designer at Almaz-Antey: "Russia is working on an equivalent of the THAAD missile defense complex, which is capable of intercepting ballistic intermediate range missiles and, to a certain extent,...
* It's not an official request yet, but Afghan President Ashraf Ghani would like the US to slow its drawdown in the next 2 years. US Industry * According to the WSJ former United Technologies CEO Louis Chenevert left the company after its board discussed concerns that...
* According to the Korea Herald, South Korea's 2015 defense budget has been finalized by parliament at 37.4 trillion won ($33.4B), a 4.9% increase slightly below what the ministry had asked. 11.1 trillion won ($9.9B) is allocated to procurement. US DoD Leadership *...
NZ ANZACs(click to view full) It's time to modernize New Zealand's only serious combat ships. New Zealand bought 2 ANZAC frigates in the 1990s, as a cooperative venture with Australia using the MEKO 100 German design. F77 Te Kaha was commissioned in 1996, and F111 Te...
Saudi ASTROS-II(click to view full) At the end of August 2011, Brazil's Ministerio da Defesa announced the beginning of a BRL 1.09 billion (about $685 million) project to update Avibras' ASTROS (Artillery SaTuration ROcket System) multiple rocket launcher system to...
* DARPA is organizing a proposer's day [FBO] on December 16 in Arlington, VA, to discuss the Target Recognition and Adaption in Contested Environment (TRACE), a program meant to "develop algorithms and techniques that rapidly and accurately identify military targets...
Hmm, I'll research"Swarm Robotics" next Just before resigning, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel launched a "third offset" strategy whose purpose was to invite DoD and civilian resources to identify future technologies that would allow the US to maintain and renew its...