Aug 31/11: Towne Group Media & Management in Columbia, MD receives an $8.4 million contract modification, subject to availability of FY 2012 funds, exercising the 3rd option year on the current firm-fixed price commercial service contract to support Pentagon Channel...
* Bulgaria is looking for 8-12 new fighters, and the USA has a financing offer for its F-16s. Other contenders include the JAS-39 Gripen leased by Bulgaria's neighbors, EADS' Eurofighter, and even a Russian offer to sell NATO-interoperable MiG-29s (something the...
* How Israel speeds up its counterstrikes using UAVs - and spycraft, and back-end IT. Also serves as an overview of their entire aerospace ISR set. * Elbit Systems' UT-30 unmanned 30mm turret has completed acceptance testing on Brazil's new VBTP Guarani wheeled...
* Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday to reporters in Ankara that after downgrading diplomatic ties with Israel, he is now suspending defense ties between the two countries. Turkey is also asking most Israeli diplomatic personnel to leave by...
Latest updates: US Marines wearing 'em out. F/A-18C to Afghanistan(click to view full) In October 2008 a fleet-wide inspection program and limited grounding became necessary after aileron hinge cracks are discovered in some of the US Navy's 630 or so F/A-18 A-D Hornet...
* The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka Supercommittee - will it fly?) will have its first organization meeting on Thursday September 8. This will no doubt lead to a string of announcements from interested parties throughout the week. Bloomberg says...
Loaded to the K-MAX(click to view full) With its 5,145 lb empty weight (2.3 metric tons), the K-MAX UAS cannot quite convey the same sense of graceful lightness as its Hummingbird Boeing competitor, coming at slightly less than half the weight. Belonging to a...
TARS, deployed(click to view full) An aerostat is a lighter-than-air craft that relies on a ground tether for movement and sometimes for electrical power as well, as opposed to blimps which are self-powered, free-flying craft. The US military has slowly come around to...
US F-16(click to view full) In Smithsonian Air & Space magazine's 10-year, post-9/11 look at the US Air National Guard, Lt. Col. Scott Van Beek talks about the US ANG's coming pilot crunch, driven by trends in civil aviation, and by the military's own attempt to shift...