9/2/2010 Stop the War Talk  The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, purportedly to be part of the Obama administration’s relaunch of peace negotiations. But the urgent talk is of war, thanks to Jeffrey Goldberg’s much-discussed Atlantic Monthly cover article, which faithfully reproduced the logic of Israeli military and political leaders. |
9/2/2010 US tells Turkey military exercise off if Israel not in  Turkish newspaper Hurriyet says Americans will not participate in joint military exercise slated for next month should Israel be barred from traditional drill. |
9/2/2010 Missile warning systems from Northrop Grumman to equip Marine Corps medium- and heavy-lift helicopters  U.S. Marine Corps officials needed infrared missile warning systems to protect their fleets of medium- and heavy-lift helicopters from heat-seeking missiles–particularly from shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles. |
9/2/2010 WorldNATO 'no comment' on Russian warplane deal report  NATO declined to comment on Wednesday on a report saying it could use Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters at a Cold War-era base in Iceland for training purposes. |
9/2/2010 Russia to sell Mi-17 helicopters to Argentina  Russia has signed a "historic" contract on Mi-17 helicopter deliveries to Argentina, a member of a Russian delegation said on Wednesday. |
9/1/2010 Israelis split over Barak move to buy F-35  Military leaders and analysts are at odds over Defense Minister Ehud Barak's recent decision to buy 20 Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters, largely because it will take four years for them to be delivered and become operational, too late for any assault on Iran. |
9/1/2010 Iraq to spend $13B on U.S. arms, equipment  Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in American arms and military equipment, a huge order of tanks, ships and hardware that U.S. officials say shows Iraqi-U.S. military ties will be tight for years to come. |
9/1/2010 DHS Increases Use of Drones on Southern Border  Tomorrow the Department of Homeland Security will be expanding their use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) along the Southwest border to provide support and reconnaissance to Border Patrol Agents with the arrival of a new Predator-B aircraft upping Customs and Border Protection’s fleet of drones to seven aircrafts. |
8/31/2010 Azerbaijan to buy four Ka-32 helicopters from Russia  Russian Helicopters company will supply four Kamov Ka-32 helicopters to Azerbaijan in the near future, the Azerbaijani APA news agency said on Monday. |
8/31/2010 Lockheed Martin’s New Multi-Purpose HELLFIRE II Missile  Lockheed Martin’s multi-purpose AGM 114R HELLFIRE II missile struck and destroyed a stationary tank target in its third proof-of-principle flight test, a ground-launch test configured to simulate launch from an unmanned aerial system (UAS). |