LEAPP(click to view full) Digitization and smaller electronics affect the battlefield in a number of ways. In the area of air defense, it has become possible to make small radars quite powerful, while also connecting them in networks that can provide a combined...
CH-53E lifts UH-60, Iraq(click to view full) DID FOCUS Article "CH-53K: The USMC's HLR Helicopter Program" notes that: "On average, existing CH-53E aircraft are more than 15 years old, have over 3,000 flight hours under tough conditions, and are becoming more and more...
Italian FREMM(click to view full) The Franco-Italian FREMM (FREgate Multi Mission or FREgata Multi Missione) program is designed to create an affordable and somewhat flexible naval combatant that offers good to very good performance in the 3 key fleet roles of...
AEY Betrayal?(click to view full) Reports surfaced in late March 2008 that a company with several hundred million dollars worth of contracts, acting as the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan's army and police forces, has been delivering substandard ammunition...
Mirach target(click to view full) The UK Armed Forces face a wide variety of aerial threats, with variables that include speed, stealth, and flight profiles. Attack helicopters can have a speed of zero, for instance, while some anti-ship missiles can exceed Mach 3....
US SOUTCHCOM Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in Orlando, FL won a $91.3 million firm-fixed price contract for the design and construction of a building complex to support United States Southern Command and their collaborative partners. SOUTHCOM handles US security...
The Defense Security Assistance Management System (and see DISAM Journal 2000 review) is a worldwide automated information system that is used for managing the USA's multi-billion Foreign Military Sales Program. Legal restrictions concerning military technology...
On July 25/07, new UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the UK MoD Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) will be shut down. The agency was set up in 1966, when the UK arms industry was largely state-owned and concerned with selling off surplus...
Seahawk fires Penguin(click to view full) Kongsberg recently announced a signed contract from the Turkish Navy worth roughly NOK 210 million (about $41 million). In return, the Norwegian firm will provide an unspecified number of Penguin short-range anti-ship missiles...