2013-03-07 By Richard A. McCormack,
[email protected] http://www.manufacturingnews.com Structural changes in U.S. industry over the past 30 years caused primarily by the financial sector's insatiable quest for profits have left "gaping holes" in the American system of scaling up new technologies to large-scale production, according to preliminary findings from a study…
2013-02-20 The kind of capability which the A400M delivers will be highly valued by the French forces when deliveries start later this year. The evolving concepts of operations by the French forces are built on rapid insertion of force and keeping up a tempo of attack. Airlifters are a central…
2013-02-11 Unfortunately, the debate about the littoral combat ship, and the confusion of building a fairly limited ship with disruptive change, has obscured the real transformation at sea. The dynamics of change affecting the seabase are truly significant. The ARG-MEU is being transformed into an expeditionary strike group. With the addition…
2013-02-08 The UAE has ordered three A330MRTT tankers. It has now received its first one. According to a comment made to Second Line of Defense by a senior USAF officer (retired) who has worked closely with the UAE: “They should consider buying a larger fleet of tankers, in order to…
2013-02-06 Recently, the USCG has ordered an additional aircraft to its Maritime Patrol aircraft fleet. This order will bring the fleet size to 18. The role of the Ocean Sentry (the USCG's version of the CN-235) is central to the USCG's missions. [caption id="attachment_50622" align="alignnone" width="300"] A USCG CN-235 in…
The F-35 is built to become a global plane. The defense industrial agreement underlying the program have both that intent and if realized that impact. In a recent Japanese piece on the F-35 this was underscored. The fighter jet is being developed by an international consortium led by U.S.…
2013-01-30 According to a Lockheed Martin Press Release: Assembly of the 100th Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II is well underway at the F-35 production facility here. [caption id="attachment_50376" align="alignnone" width="300"] Wing of 100th F-35 on the Fort Worth Assembly Line, January 2013. Credit: Lockheed Martin [/caption] F-35 technicians…
2013-01-30 By Brett Davis Unmanned aircraft the size of hummingbirds could one day sport GPS navigation capability, according to Rockwell Collins, which is developing tiny GPS systems with DARPA. DARPA's Dynamics Enabled Frequency Sources (DEFYS) program has created tiny electronic oscillators that Rockwell Collins is testing on GPS radios. “Never…