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  AGM-158 JASSM Family Cruise Missiles: FY 2012 Orders

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/agm-158-jassm-family-cruise-missiles-fy-2012-orders-07450/

  The 2,000 pound AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is intended to be a stealthy, inexpensive GPS/IIR (Global Positioning system/ Imaging InfraRed) guided cruise missile that lets American aircraft attack well-defended targets - without

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  US MSC Charters Westpac Express Catamaran

  https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/us-msc-charters-westpac-express-catamaran-for-15-more-years-02269/

  The Westpac Express fast ferry ship has been instrumental in changing the way the US Navy approaches sealift in the Western Pacific. It's fast enough to substitute for airlift in many cases, and large enough to move a Marine battalion with its gear.

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  Japan Orders Upgrades for its 4 E-767 AWACS

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/japan-orders-4-e767-awacs-radar-mission-upgrade-kits-for-147m-02215/

  In May 2006, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Japan of four sets of Airborne Early Warning (AEW) and Command, Control and Communications (C3) mission equipment/Radar System Improvement

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  BAE’s L-ROD Cage Armor

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/baes-lrod-cage-armor-03473

  Russian-designed RPG shoulder-fired rockets are a widespread threat in many parts of the world, including the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. At present, the most common threats involve RPG-7 single warhead variants, which are also produced in

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  $27M for LITENING Targeting & Recon Pods

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/27m-for-litening-targeting-recon-pods-0929/

  Northrop Grumman Corp. in Rolling Meadows, IL received a $27 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract modification to provide for LITENING advanced airborne targeting and navigation pods for U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps use. Designed…

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  Britain’s VC10 Tankers Hit “Through-Life” End of Through-Life Support

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/britains-vc10-tankers-moving-toward-new-support-model-03382/

  As of 2002, the RAF had 19 of its 4-engined VC10 aerial tankers in service. These sleek aircraft with the unusual engine arrangement form the backbone of its aerial tanker fleet, and continued to do so for about another decade until the new Airbus A330

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  Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle, June 2011

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Iraqi-Security-Forces-Order-of-Battle-June-2011-06920/

  DJ Elliott is a retired USN Intelligence Specialist (22 years active duty) who has been analyzing and writing on Iraqi Security Forces developments since 2006. His Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle is an open-source compilation that attempts to map and

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  Sustaining the M1 Abrams: US Army Puts a TIGER in its Tanks

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/sustaining-the-m1-abrams-us-army-puts-a-tiger-in-its-tanks-01790/

  Honeywell International Inc. in Morris Township, NJ won a U.S. Army contract to change the way it supports its AGT-1500 turbine engine, used on the M1 Abrams tank and related platforms. Honeywell had forecast that the overall contract under the US

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  MRAPs and New Wheeled APCs for Spain

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/mraps-and-new-wheeled-apcs-for-spain-04144/

  Western militaries are quickly coming to the realization that the light Land Rover, G-Wagen, and HMMWV type flat bottom vehicles deployed as light troop transports are no longer adequate on a non-linear battlefield with no defined front lines, in a world

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  Virginia Block III: The Revised Bow

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/virginia-block-iii-the-revised-bow-04159/

  Virginia Block I-II (click for SuperSize) "GDEB Receives $148M as Virginia Class Lead Yard" described changes to the Virginia Class submarine's design that are expected to reach 20% of the $200 million savings goal by the time orders for the versatile…

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