For those who know defense acquisition, it’s never a surprise when timelines to bring revolutionary weapon systems to life slip to the right, but the US Army’s new program office to manage the acquisition of a Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft is laser-focused on getting to low-rate production by its goal of 2030. Over the past […]

The annual Air Force Association conference will kick off outside of Washington next week, where Boeing is putting its latest and greatest combat aircraft developments on show for industry and Washington power brokers. This includes new F-15 configurations that allow the 43-year-old design to lug 16 air-to-air missiles into combat instead of the standard eight […]

Early last month, Japan’s central government made a surprise announcement that it would suspend for one month from August 10to September 9 the construction of the controversial U.S. Marine Corps air base in Henoko, Okinawa. Building this landfill facility on the edge of Camp Schwab on Oura Bay has been the precondition for closing down […]

Six of the 18 Camp Pendleton Marines injured when a seven-ton truck overturned on the North County military installation remained in critical condition Friday, and eight others were listed as stable. One Marine was killed when the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement crashed on Basilone Road early Thursday afternoon. The crash involved personnel with the 1st […]

Taliban guerrillas launched a salvo of rockets at Bagram Air Field but caused no casualties or damage at the sprawling facility north of Kabul, officials said Friday. The attackers fired four short-range rockets at the base, where large numbers of U.S. and NATO troops are stationed, on Thursday night but caused no harm, said Abdul […]

The U.S. government has expressed its opinion to Icelandic authorities that considering increased Russian aggression there may be reason to reopen the U.S. Navy base in Iceland; the U.S. Armed Forces operated the Naval Air Station in Keflavík as a NATO base from 1951 to 2006. Its location was considered to be of great importance […]

AM General has been awarded a $428,295,155 firm-fixed-price, multi-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for new M997A3 HMMWV Ambulance Chassis Vehicles for domestic disaster relief efforts by the Army, Army Reserve and Army National Guard. Under the initial contract award of $89.5 million, AM General will provide the National Guard 654 M997A3 HMMWV Ambulance Chassis Vehicles. “We […]

U.S. Army forces in Europe are preparing for a major journey from Germany to Hungary as part of a training exercise and effort to show solidarity and strengthen a U.S.-Hungarian alliance, service officials said. The exercise will begin with a 700 kilometer Stryker unit convoy from Germany across the Danube River into Hungary – designed to demonstrate […]

During  MSPO 2015, 23rd International Defence Industry Exhibition 2015 was presented the WR-300 HOMAR concept of a rocket launcher. Concept of a rocket launcher HOMAR  using Lockheed Martin HIMARS  carries a single six-pack of MLRS rockets or one ATACMS missile system components and chassis Jelcz 663.32 – the same as for the self-propelled howitzer Krill. Demonstrated by […]

Europe-based tanks and other armored vehicles will soon be repainted to woodland green in a strategic shift away from the desert tan that has marked the Army’s fighting vehicles for more than a decade. The vehicles had been painted desert tan for operations in the Middle East; the return to the forest colors coincides with […]