The Washington news cycle will be dominated for the next few days by the Wikileaks document drop as the journalistic herd pores over the 92,000 mostly classified reports that went up on the Wikileaks site yesterday and provided to some media outlets weeks ago. Keep in mind, these are mostly tactical level SIGACT (significant action) […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2010
By Craig Hooper Defense Tech Naval Warfare Analyst One of the more thankless contributors to America’s “National Fleet” is the U.S. Army’s Logistic Support Vessel (LSV). The 8 General Frank S. Besson Class LSVs are next-generation LSTs–an expendable, beach-able, plodding, “fill-with-what-you-will” vessel. The LSV is a perfect example of defense “humbletech”–a technical asset so mundane […]
Our man in Farnborough, Glenn Anderson, shot some video of British firm Air2Air’s DraganFlyer X6 Mini tri-rotor helicopter mini drone (I think it might be a bit large to be classified a micro-drone). The highly-maneuverable drone, which Air2Air claims most anybody can operate with just two days instruction, carries low light or infra-red cameras and […]
Although feeling the pressure from aircraft manufacturers in China spitting out passable knock-offs of its own designs, Russia will maintain its second place position behind the U.S. in global fighter sales at least until 2013, according to a Moscow think tank. Russia sold 476 fighters worth $27.7 billion from 2006 to 2009. That number is […]
Saudi Arabia plans to buy 84 new F-15s along with some 72 UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, defense officials tell Bloomberg. Navy Vice Admiral Jeffrey Wieringa, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), said Congress will be notified of the sale in the next couple of months. We reported on the pending sale last September; Boeing […]
