Military Equipment & Platforms
Navy puts its New Mine-Hunting System to the Test
June 28 by Mike O'BrienThe reliability of the U.S. Navy’s remote mine-hunting system for Littoral Combat Ships has been vastly improved following a series of tests off the coast of Palm Beach in Florida. The remo...
Lockheed Martin's Final JLTV Development Vehicle Rolls off Assembly Line
June 27 by IDGA EditorThe final Lockheed Martin Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) produced for the program’s Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase has rolled off the assembly line. It joins a f...
U.S. Army to Axe 10 Brigade Combat Teams
June 26 by Mike O'BrienThe U.S. Army announced on Tuesday that it is cutting 10 brigade combat teams over the next four years. The cutbacks bring the number of active-duty BCTs down to 33, but Chief of Staff Gen. Raymon...
South Korea Starts Bidding in $7.3 Billion Jet Contract
June 25 by Mike O'BrienSouth Korea has started the bidding process to pick a contractor to offer 60 advanced fighter jets in a contract worth $7.3 billion. The Defense Acquisition Program and Administration (DAPA) said...
Night Shift: With Game-Changing Night-Vision Systems U.S. 'Owns the Night'
June 24 by John M. DoyleWhen Navy SEAL snipers killed three pirates off the coast of Somalia during the April 2009 rescue of a kidnapped American cargo ship captain, they took aim with night-vision scopes on their rifles....
First Lockheed Martin F-35C Reports to the Navy
June 24 by IDGA EditorThe first Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Navy carrier variant (CV) aircraft, CF-6, arrived at Strike Fighter Squadron 101 located at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., on Saturday. The jet is the Navy&...
U.S. Military Scraps $7 Billion Worth of Equipment in Afghanistan
June 21 by Mike O'BrienU.S. forces in Afghanistan are abandoning tons of equipment estimated to be worth $7 billion because of the huge cost of shipping it home. The military has already destroyed more than 170 million...
Soldier Equipment: Still Time to Catch the Buzz at Fort Bragg
June 17 by IDGA EditorThere’s still time to catch a slice of the action at IDGA’s 5th Annual Soldier Equipment & Technology Expo that is taking place this week at Fort Bragg. The event is being held in the...
The Smart Rifle That Decides When to Shoot (and Never Misses)
June 14 by Mike O'BrienIt takes years to train military snipers to fire with deadly accuracy at long range, but now you can shoot like one in a matter of minutes – if you’ve got at least $22,000 to spare. A...
The Changing Face of Female Military Uniforms
June 14 by Nazya AyazWithout a doubt, military women wear the uniform with understandable pride. There is a longstanding history of women serving in the armed forces dating back to the civil war, and undeniably the unif...
Bell Boeing Awarded Contract for 99 V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Aircraft
June 13 by IDGA EditorThe Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. and Boeing, has been awarded a five-year U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) contract for the production a...
Training Manual Fuels Fears of al Qaeda’s Missile Capabilities
June 11 by Mike O'BrienA manual showing how to use a surface-to-air missile capable of taking down a commercial airplane has been recovered from a building that was occupied by al Qaeda in Timbuktu, Mali. The 26-page do...