Rapid Fire Morning 2011-06-13: Saab Export Efforts

by [email protected] | Jun 13, 2011 | Air Reconnaissance, Aircraft, Asia - Other, Boeing, Daily Rapid Fire, Europe - Other, General Dynamics, Helicopters & Rotary, IAI, Industry & Trends, Japan, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Signals Radio & Wireless, UAVs, USA

* A new report from Pike Research predicts that global military agencies’ spending on renewable energy technologies will continue to rise rapidly over the next two decades, growing from $1.8 billion per year in 2010 to $26.8 billion by 2030. Portable soldier...

Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle, June 2011

by Joe Katzman | Jun 12, 2011 | Africa - Other, Contracts - Awards, Europe - Other, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Iraq, Radars, Signals Radio & Wireless, Transport & Utility, USA

(c) DJ Elliott(click to view full) DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation...

Panetta Senate Hearings vs. Gates NATO Speech

by [email protected] | Jun 12, 2011 | Alliances, Asia - Other, Budgets, Domestic Security, Issues - Environmental, Issues - International, Issues - Political, Leadership & People, Middle East - Other, Official Reports, Policy - Doctrine, Politics, Think Tanks, USA

Leon Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his main objective as the new Defense Secretary will be to ensure that the United States continues to have the best trained, best equipped and strongest military in the world. Despite the Department of...

Iraq Orders Eurocopter’s EC635s

by Joe Katzman | Jun 12, 2011 | Airbus, Contracts - Awards, Force Structure, France, Helicopters & Rotary, Iraq, Issues - International, Lobbying, Support & Maintenance, Support Functions - Other

Jordanian EC635 SAR(click to view full) Iraq’s air force is growing, slowly. The force still has no fixed-wing combat aircraft, but a handful of helicopters, transports, and surveillance aircraft have created a set of limited core capabilities. Bell...

Rapid Fire 2011-06-10: AFTAC ESAS Support

by [email protected] | Jun 10, 2011 | China, Contracts - Awards, Elbit Systems, European Union (EU), France, Honeywell, Logistics & Support, Naval Equipment, Oshkosh, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, RFPs, Specialty Aircraft, Thales, UAVs, USA

* A new Electronics.Ca Publications report predicts that the global machine vision and vision guided robotics market will be worth $15.3 billion by 2015. The Asia Pacific region is expected to continue its dominance over this time period. * MDA, Ltd. and IAI’s...