RE HMMWV, changes(click to view full,new parts in yellow) As "$650.1M for 4,526 Hummers" explained in mid-April 2008, the US military continues to orders Hummers by the thousands. Now AM General, LLC in South Bend, IN has received a follow-on a $522.4 million...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast in Jacksonville, FL has issued several indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, multiple award, design-build construction contracts for general building type projects at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay. Each contract...
New barracks(click to view full) Over the next 5 years, the US Army plans to invest some $40 billion in military construction on American bases, in order to provide lodgings and facilities for soldiers and their families. As "The Army's Building Boom" [PDF] notes,...
Few of us would argue that soldiers returning from the battlefield deserve treatment for stress as well as wounds, as a moral obligation. Not to mention preventative programs and techniques similar to those discussed in Grossman's On Combat book and "Bulletproof Mind"...
(click to view larger) As of July 2007, Raytheon Technical Services held the US Army contract for live training support, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) carries the contract for virtual training (simulators), and General Dynamics the one for constructive training...
SLAMRAAM launch(click to view full) Key AMRAAM derivatives include a ground-launched version intended to provide short-medium range mobile anti-aircraft coverage and cruise missile defense. In the USA, the derivative is known as SLAMRAAM, or CLAWS (by the US Marines,...
"I Serve With HSV-2!"(click to view full) All the USA's fast catamaran transports, from the Bollinger/Incat ships Joint Venture, Spearhead & Swift to Austal's Westpac Express, offer the ability to move whole battalions and their accompanying supplies much faster than...
CNR-9000 VHF(click to view full) Elbit Systems Ltd. recently announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tadiran Communications Ltd, received a $127 million contract to supply tactical communications radio equipment and systems from "a European customer." The systems...
OH-58Ds, Kirkuk, Iraq(click to view full) "Comanche's Child: The ARH-70 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter" discusses the USa's OH-58D fleet: "The USA's Kiowa Warrior fleet has accumulated well over 1.1 million flight hours, including over 200,000 combat flight hours....