Talwar class(click to view full) In July 2006, the Indian government announced that Russia would build 3 "stealth warships" for India under a Rs 5114 crore (INR 51.14 billion, then about $1.1 billion) contract signed in New Delhi. The contract actually covers 3...
The all-nuclearTask Force One, 1964(click to view full) There was a time when USS Enterprise was the most famous ship in the world. It still is, but these days, most people think of the fictional starship rather than the world's first nuclear-powered carrier. The real...
* Sean O'Keefe, head of EADS North America and the NDIA trade association, urges the US government to at least grant the Pentagon flexibility within sequestration-level budgets. * Latest from the US GAO: feed us more acquisition metrics; improve Army Industrial...
* Big defense contracts in Eurocopter's sights, according to La Tribune [in French]: the US, Qatar, Poland, Norway, India, and Malaysia. * The US started shipping weapons to Jordan to deliver them to Syrian rebels. * The US Air Force's Cold Weather Aviation System...
Forecast Me Not * IHS Jane's is making the bold prediction that aggregated Asian defense budgets will supersede North America's by 2021. Maybe. They don't share their methodology but from their release it appears that by "forecast" they mean "project recent past...
MMP-15/30(click to view larger) TML's work with the US military began in July of 2007, via a request by the US Army to design 3 new man-portable EOD robot systems with a 4-axis arms, video display OCU, multiple cameras, swappable batteries and chargers, all of which...
* US Acquisition Undersecretary Frank Kendall received [PDF] 90+ proposals from 50+ American companies interested in joint projects with India. He wants to remain realistic given India's preference for local production: "We will carefully assess a number of factors,...
* The office opened just days ago by the Taliban in Qatar to start peace negotiations used several signs of a nation state, including floating the flag they used when they held power in Afghanistan. They agreed to lower their profile on Sunday, but that is a telling...
* Syrian rebels have told AFP that they have started receiving an untold quantity of unknown weapons from an unnamed source, though they did say sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons were among this first shipment, with more to come. The EU embargo was lifted only 3...