A Forecast International blog about the arms trade, geopolitics, defense and security, and military spending.
Tension and uncertainty continue to mount in the wake of a U.S. military strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Tehran has vowed …
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Raytheon has won the U.S. Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) competition, and will deliver a new radar to replace the existing MPQ-65A Patriot radar. As the …
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by C. Zachary Hofer, Defense Electronic Systems Analyst, Forecast International. In an announcement released on February 21, Raytheon announced that it would be competing in “the Olympics of radar.” This turn of …
Read More The United Arab Emirates has opened its International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, attracting defense companies from around the world.
Read More In its first foreign military sale (FMS) announcement since the federal government shutdown went into effect on December 22, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on January 29 …
Read More U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has announced his opposition to a proposed arms package for Saudi Arabia. In an interview with Breitbart News conducted on May 23, 2017 and released …
Read More The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency released a fact sheet detailing some of the equipment included in the $109.7 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia announced on May 20, 2017. …
Read Moreby Dan Darling, International Military Markets Analyst, Forecast International. On March 31, Polish Minister of Defense Antoni Macierewicz announced the submission of a revised request for information (RFI) to the …
Read More by Larry Dickerson, Missile Systems Analyst, Forecast International. Germany has decided to purchase the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), according to reports from Deutsche Welle. This is a joint …
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