A Forecast International blog about the arms trade, geopolitics, defense and security, and military spending.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded development contracts to 28 vendors for its Advanced Battle Management System that could be worth $950 million over five years. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts allow …
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The airborne retrofit & modernization (R&M) market is as vast as it is complex. With most aircraft expected to serve their operators for a span of at least 30 …
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The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a Request for Information for a counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS). The RFI states that the service may procure from six to 10 systems. The …
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The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee has announced its schedule for marking up the Pentagon’s FY21 budget request, which was released back in February. The full committee markup will take …
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The Turkmen Air Force is believed to have placed an order for the M-346 jet trainer aircraft. Earlier this month, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported to the Senate …
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The Ukrainian military is looking to procure new fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles over the coming years. In the Air Force Vision 2035 document, recently approved by the Military Council …
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The U.S. Navy has long determined that an increasingly adverse electronic warfare environment is brewing like an approaching storm on the waterways of the world. Through the Surface Electronic Warfare …
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India intends to forgo a planned acquisition of 114 foreign-sourced combat aircraft in favor of more indigenous Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCAs). The move comes a little over two years …
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Production of the first Su-35 for the Egyptian Air Force has begun. A military diplomatic source said the following to state-owned media outlet TASS Russian News Agency over the weekend: …
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Barely two weeks after an announcement that government-to-government Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requests by the Philippines to Washington for potential buys of U.S.-sourced attack helicopters had been cleared by the …
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