LVSR comes ashore(click to view full) Why are trucks a big deal? Because they are the unglamorous but very necessary backbone of any mobile military force. The US Marines certainly fit the description of a mobile force, and Oshkosh Defense supplies their MTVR medium...
* Contributing to a sudden, redoubled effort from interest groups to pressure the US government into starting significant reforms at the Pentagon, the conservative National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and R Street Institute released a report [PDF] outlining yet another...
* The US Navy posted a summary [obnoxious text-as-image format, because PDF would have been too easy] of the Air-Sea Battle (ASB) concept which even has its own office. Summary of the summary: the US needs to relearn how to fight enemies with better gear than...
* Bloomberg reports, based on anonymous sources, that Israel is reviewing what types of systems it will buy from the US with American aid. New V-22s and used KC-135s are part of the talks. * Coming this Wednesday: the full FY14 authorization markup by the US House...
* After almost 2 years of denial, US Defense Undersecretary Ashton Carter instructed the services to work on FY 14 and FY15 budgeting scenarios that span a range going from the president's unrealistic FY14 budget to full sequestration (~10% lower). Give it another...
F-35A test flight(click to view full) The $300+ billion, multi-national F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is the largest single military program in history. It's also reaching a critical nexus. In order to keep costs under control and justify the industrial ramp up...
* 4 major defense-focused American think tanks joined forces to weight budget trade-offs for the Pentagon over the next 10 years. They have a clear consensus [PDF] to primarily target personnel, and more specifically DoD civilians, for cuts, whether sequestration is...
HMS Astute & Type 45(click to view full) In late May 2013, Thales UK signed a 10-year, GBP 600 million Sensor Support Optimisation Project (SSOP) with the Ministry of Defence. It extends the 2003 Contractor Logistics Support deal that covered electronic warfare/ ESM...
* Spain's armament exports decreased by 19.6% in 2012 after a record 2011, to EUR 1.95B (about $2.5B). That is still more than twice the yearly average up to 2010. Australia replaced Venezuela as their largest purchaser. El Pais [in Spanish]. * Japan may sell US-2...