* According to a new report from ASDReports the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia spent $11.1 billion on new or upgraded military equipment in 2010. ASD also predicts that there will be robust demand for defense materiel by Saudi Arabia over the next decade. * India receives...
Iraqi Policeman,Baghdad(click to view full) $146M order. (May 27/11) Global Fleet Sales, Inc. is a member of the RM Asia Group of Companies, and has a long history of working in "difficult market situations" to produce modified and baseline Ford vehicles for companies...
* As a British Government Minister declares that offensive cyber warfare is an integral part of the UK's armory, the Ministry of Defence outline their new Materiel Strategy. * Cassidian win contract to provide the Canadian Navy new technologies to detect and counter...
* President Medvedev is longing for the good old days when poor contract performance earned a Siberian home, Russia is prosecuting people for a catastrophically failed GLONASS GPS launch... and now Russia's chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky tells Rossiiskaya...
Honor & Reflect(click to view cartoon) Monday, May 30th is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are reminded that in America, the Memorial Day moment of silence...
* Cartwright's rumored x-out for the pending Pentagon Chief of Staff slot is likely to have wide implications for future Pentagon buys. Even as it raises questions about the nature and origins of the whisper campaign that covertly works to do him in. * "The [US]...
Apaches head out(click for full view) May 25/11: Radiance Technologies, Inc. in Huntsville, AL receives an $8.8 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract from the US Army. They'll produce the hardware needed to equip a full battalion of AH-64D Apache Longbow...
* As operations over Libya drain European stockpiles of smart bombs, Defense Update's "The High Cost of Precision Attack" looks at progress, pricing, and options. * The world military helicopter market reached $12.6 billion in 2010, and demand is predicted to remain...
* The global armored vehicle and counter IED vehicle market is predicted to reach $25.1 billion this year, but decline to $24.1 billion by 2021, according to ASDReports.com * Russian prosecutors are pursuing criminal charges against space officials over 4.3 billion...