It’s Paris 2011 and the big theme at what, (so far, it’s early in the show) feels like a queter than usual kickoff to one of the aviation world’s biggest event is companies pitching how mature their products are; meaning they won’t cost much, if anything, to develop, have known operating costs and can be delivered on time. Several defense exectuves have […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2011
Well it’s been a while coming but Russia just signed a $1.6 billion deal to buy two Mistral class amphibious assault flat tops from France. Yes, its a good step toward modernizing the hard-up post-Soviet navy. We’ll see if Russia can follow through with its massive naval rebuild. Oh, and look out, (ex-Soviet state) Georgia!
Here’s the latest evidence (aside from Chinese officials saying so already) suggesting that China’s first aircraft carrier will likely put to sea very soon; the construction trailers are starting to be removed from the Shi Lang’s (ex Soviet Varyag) flight deck. That image was presented last night on China Defense Blog along with the hilarious […]
Yup, Defense Tech and sister site DoDBuzz will be covering the Paris Air Show next week. Check out our coverage from on the sites and our Twitter feeds. In the meantime, here’s a list of the DoD personnel and aircraft that will be making an appearance at the show: Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn will […]
This morning DT’s sister site, Kit Up!, published this interesting ‘what if’ piece about some tech that could have been used in the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Basically, Kit Up! asks what if the operators on the raid were using the rumored-to-exist night vision contact lenses. Now, we’ve seen the QUADEYE night vision devices for […]
