P-3P Orion(click to view full) Covering the Atlantic side of Europe out of the Azores, and sitting near the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, Portugal has a lot of maritime territory to patrol. The FAP has received a number of upgraded P-3 Orion aircraft over the...
* Forbes critiques Pentagon's rush to bring military functions performed by contractors in-house. * Union workers at Lockheed Martin's Marietta, GA plant ratify a 3-year labor contract, despite calls from union leaders to reject it. The plant manufactures the C-130J...
* US Senate appropriators unveil a 7-month FY 2011 continuing resolution (CR) with $514 billion proposed for the defense base budget, $26 billion below what DoD wants and $2.1 billion less than the House-passed CR. * On the other hand, China is expanding its defense...
* RAFAEL's ASPRO-A/ Trophy (and see video) active protection system records its 1st live kill against an enemy anti-tank weapon (reportedly an unguided RPG). The Israeli Merkava tank crew only discovered they had been fired upon after the fact. This is one of the...
* British PM David Cameron describes recent British military operations within Libya. Meanwhile, Canada has sent its JTF2 special forces unit, the civil war flares in Marsa Al Burayqah, and the rebels have Tobruk's oil terminal working. * Russia busts arms export...
Cypriot Mi-35P(click to view full) As Rosvertol General Director Boris Slyusar announced the firm's 2010 trading figures, he revealed that a fall 2010 deal had been signed with Azerbaijan for 24 Mi-35 attack helicopters. That would more than double the current fleet...
IdZ-ES components(click to view full) The German Bundeswehr's 21st century IdZ (Infanterist der Zukunft, or "Infantryman Of The Future") project, is part of a wider global trend in advanced militaries: fully integrated sets of weapons, computing, and sighting systems...
Swiss militia(click to view full) A number of countries are currently developing "future soldier" kits that attempt to give soldiers the same kind of advanced technologies now going into vehicles, aircraft, etc., including wearable computers, helmet displays, video...
* The types of no-fly zones, and what that might mean for Libya. * Russian army expects to receive advanced S-300V4 air defense missile system in 2011, according to the defense ministry. * After scrapping its Nimrod fleet, the Royal Navy is beginning to accept that it...