IqAF King Air 350-ISR(click to view full) In 2009, the Ottawa Citizen's defense reporter David Pugliese reported that the US military was about to spend $100 million to upgrade the facilities at Kandahar, Afghanistan, in order to accommodate up to 26 aircraft for a...
Italian Eurofighters(click to view full) Fresh from brinksmanship around the go-forward plan for Europe's multi-national A400M military transport, EADS has dived into another spat with European governments. The firm is reportedly threatening to suspend production of...
While France plans to use its economic stimulus spending to accelerate key defense buys and add another Mistral Class amphibious operations ship, the USA appears to be taking a different approach. Congressional Quarterly magazine's "Defense Firms Seek Insulation From...
C-27J Spartan(click to view larger) Around the world, buyers of light military transport aircraft face 3 main choices: Alenia's C-27J Spartan, EADS-CASA's C-295M, or Russia's AN-32. EADS-CASA began with notable leads in orders and customers over its C-27J rival....
M1A1 Overwatch, Iraq(click to view full) The lessons of Objective Peach, the pivotal Thunder Run, and the Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq proved that modern tanks still have a key role to play as the battlefield's mobile behemoths - vehicles that can take surprise...
Writing in the December 2008 issue of Armed Forces Journal, Scott Hamilton conveys part of a protectionist sentiment that is rising in America. The target is outsourcing, which has taken large strides in China. It's also picking up in India, and is even happening with...
USS Kearsarge & LCACs(click to view full) The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge [LHD-3] has an innovative crew that has saved the Navy money, but she still needs maintenance just like every other ship. BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair in Norfolk, VA received a...
(click to view full) Biometrics is a key weapon of war these days, in addition to its uses as a defensive system. That's the new reality described in "Biometrics Shifting from Defensive to Offensive Uses in Iraq" with help from firms like SAIC. Governments like...
Environmental Leader magazine has a pair of stories covering achievements in the defense sector: Lockheed Martin received several awards in 2008 for its progress towards the aggressive 25% reduction goals for carbon, waste, and water use it had set in 2007. The firm...