In January 2006, "IBM Wins $370M Contract for Commissary Point-of-Sales System" covered IBM's 5-10 year, $370 million maximum contract to support the US Defense Commissary Agency's Commercial Advanced Resale Transaction System (CARTS), which replaces replace the...
Free? No.(click to view full) Datalinks are an under-rated but critical technology set for any modern military. In simple terms, a datalink provides virtual circuit and datagram services that guarantee reliable, simultaneous, multi- channel transmissions. They can...
RPG-27 Back in December 2005, "Russia to Dominate $5.33B Portable Anti-Armor Market Through 2014" covered analyst firm Forecast International's global predictions for man-portable, unguided, anti-tank and bunker-buster weapons. In January 2009, the firm's rolling...
USNS Sgt. William R. Button(click to view full) The USA's T-AK and T-AKR classes of Maritime Prepositioning Ships serve as vast, floating stocks of equipment, ammunition, and supplies that can be sailed into friendly ports to meet up with flown-in Marines. This...
CAE Sim(click to view full) CAE of Montreal, PQ, Canada recently announced more than C$ 80 million (about $65 million) in military contracts. Recipients include: US Army: Synthetic Environment Core program to support general electronic (synthetic) simulators, and the...
2-503's MRS, Afghanistan(click to read article) The easiest way to clear mines is to trigger them. Heavy armored vehicles often use mine ploughs to clear the way. Lighter wheeled vehicles tend to use mine rollers instead, pushing the weighted devices in front of their...
Leo2 fires Lahat -time-lapse photo(click to view full) Ever since anti-tank missiles proved their lethality on the battlefield, designers and officers have wanted to create tank rounds that could act like guided missiles. The pursuit hasn't always gone well. The force...
Cyber-security is an ongoing issue for any enterprise these days, but the defense sector is more of a target than most. Britain's Ministry of Defence has been finding this out the hard way lately, as a string of announcements have placed its security under a...
MiG-35D(click to view full) As Sukhoi's SU-30 family of large, multi-role fighters has come to dominate Russian aircraft exports over the past decade, the positions of Sukhoi and MiG have reversed. Now MiG is the deeply secondary design bureau, and Sukhoi is the firm...