RAM (Rolling Airframe Missile) Systems: Contracts & Events
Updated: 2010-10-31 13:19:56
Mk-44 firing RAM (click to view full) Systems for LPD 26, Egyptian FAC. (Oct 29/10) The Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) MK-31 guided missile weapon system is co-developed and co-produced under a NATO cooperative program between the United States and German governments to provide a small, all-weather, low-cost self-defense system against aircraft and cruise missiles. The RIM-116 was later [...]
Rapid Fire: 2010-10-29
Updated: 2010-10-28 23:31:41Raytheon, L-3 post higher than expected profits, despite cutback in defense programs. UK foreign security delivers to Parliament the first quarterly report on Afghanistan, noting that the Afghan National Security Forces are expected to number 260,000 by the end of 2010. Australian Department of Defense plans to invest A$1.6 billion in 48 force protection measures for troops [...]
Jason Ditz
Updated: 2010-10-27 08:26:24
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Richard Holbrooke’s admission that military victory in Afghanistan is impossible, the unhelpful and over-broad application of the “Taliban” label to a a myriad of groups opposing occupation, why the “clear and hold” strategy is apparently too boring to pursue for long, schizophrenic U.S. policy in Somalia and [...]