The Russian defense industry may not have long to survive. Long the provider of massive amounts of weapons to the Soviet armed forces and those of satellite nations and much of the Third World, today some experts believe that only a massive infusion...

In 1999 the Indian government had not sanctioned money for sheds in one of the depots, so the ammunition was lying in the open, grassy fields. Instead of paying someone to cut the grass, the...

I guess I'm going to have to dive in here...though I'm reluctant to because the sides are so polarized in the issue. The fight in the Senate is going on over the added funding for F-22s inserted into the 2010 DoD budget by Raptor allies in s...

It's a downsized Navy that, save for pirate sniping, is having a hard time grabbing the limelight in a ground-intensive war (sorry, contingency operation) against Islamic extremists. So, you've...

Wearing their Rapid Equipping Force hat, The Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group set about to assemble a package of Commercial Off the Shelf Soldier Systems equipment to conduct a demonstration with...

This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.  Positive reports are streaming in from U.S. Marines flying newly remanufactured AH-1Z Cobra and UH-1Y Huey helicopters, but the program office is not losing focus on its substantial...

Network member Ned Conger sent this one along today that caught me by surprise. Turns out the Pentagon has been tweaking the software a bit on the AIM-9X  Sidewinder to hit ground targets. Strategy Page reported it but our boy Steve Trimble had it as...

Now that the magnitude of cyber attacks have increased and these acts have become so pervasive, governments have taken action to try and bring these malicious actions under control. Many of these attacks are conducted by independent hacktivists and...

Our boy Greg Grant passed this information down to us that he obtained from someone on the plane with SecDef Gates on his trip to the AO: And I’ll be asking about equipment in general. For example, one of the members of Congress told me offline at...

UPDATED UPDATE: Courtesy of our good friends at Soldier Systems, it looks as if PEO has indeed fielded 1100 individual shot detection systems — but not the BBN one. Oddly enough, despite funding the development of Boomerang Warrior, the Army seems...