By: Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press MONTREAL - Heroux-Devtek expects of its production of landing gear for the F-35 jet fighter will remain stable for the next few years before taking off due to international orders. "For the next two to three years there's somewhat limited growth but after that…
İZMİR – Anatolia News Agency Turkey can be as significant a production base in aeronautics as it is in automotives, Turkey’s Defense Industries Undersecretary Murad Bayar said yesterday, at a press conference as the Global Industrial Cooperation conference 2012 kicked off. Touching on the benefits of Turkey’s participation in Lockheed…
by Richard Weitz Russia and China conducted their first official bilateral naval exercise (variously referred to as “Maritime Cooperation 2012” and “Sea Interaction 2012”) from April 22-27 in the Yellow Sea near Qingdao, China. The exercise was a genuinely mixed operation, in which both countries made major contributions to the…
5/24/12 by Robbin Laird The visit to Spain and France to participate in the Airbus Military Trade Media Briefing provided an opportunity to look again at the evolution of the A330 multi-mission tanker and the A400M. 21st century air systems are designed differently from older military systems. This has been…
5/23/12 By Robbin Laird As the Euro zone is re-shaped, it will have a major effect on Europeans and defense. Defense and national forces are a key part of sovereignty and expression of what a nation believes and seeks to defend. The Euro zone countries face a major question because…
5/23/12 The Black Swan of the Arab Spring in 2011 whose effects are still unfolding coupled with the Gray Swan of an abrupt entry of Iran as a nuclear power will create a very fluid situation for the Middle East in 2012. Preparing to constrain, contain and attack anticipated Iranian…
5/22/2012 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Press Release) An F-35B Lightning II made its first flight at Eglin Air Force Base today, two months after 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing officially introduced the Marine Corps' fifth generation fighter to the world at the 33rd Fighter Wing. [caption id="attachment_39225" align="alignleft" width="240"…
In late 2010 a collision between a Japanese Coast Guard (JCG) vessel and a Chinese fishing trawler in a disputed maritime area in the East China Sea saw Sino-Japanese relations enter into a deep freeze from which they are still recovering. The dispute itself, over not only a large maritime…
