A Forecast International blog about the arms trade, geopolitics, defense and security, and military spending.
India’s federal government presented its fiscal year 2019 Union Budget to Parliament on February 1, with an eye on the upcoming April-May electoral cycle. Tucked within this latest budget was …
Read More Remember 2017, when General Electric did not have a good year? It just had a worse one, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel.
Read More The unrest in the Donbass region of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea have chilled relations between Ukraine and Russia. In terms of turbines, the current troubles have had far-reaching …
Read More by Stuart Slade, Senior Naval & Marine Power Systems Analyst, Forecast International. The Ukrainian embargo on the supply of marine gas turbines to the Russian Navy has had a significant …
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As a result of the U.S. government shutdown, the U.S. defense budget will not be released next week as planned. Despite the fact that the 2019 defense budget was …
Read More Despite the formation of the cross-border KNDS (KMW + Nexter Defense Systems) venture, not much has changed at Nexter or Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. But things are starting to accelerate in European …
Read More Singapore’s Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen has announced on social media that upon completion of a technical evaluation by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) and Defense Science and …
Read More The U.S. affirmed the bulk of its ongoing missile defense plans with the release of the first Missile Defense Review since 2010. President Donald Trump spoke from the Pentagon, warning …
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Boeing wins 2018 orders race as Airbus nearly catches up on deliveries by J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent, Forecast International. Boeing and Airbus both had a very strong month and …
Read More Spanish shipmaker Navantia will soon cut steel for a corvette for Saudi Arabia. On January 15, 2019, Navantia is to cut steel at its San Fernando shipyard for the first …
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