The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress today of a probable Foreign Military Sale to Japan of an E-767 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Mission Computing Upgrade (MCU) and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $950 million. The Government of Japan has requested a potential sale of an E-767 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Mission Computing Upgrade (MCU) that comes with 4 Electronic Support Measure (ESM) Systems, 8 AN/UPX-40 Next Generation Identify Friend or Foe (NGIFF), 8 AN/APX-119 IFF Transponder, and four KIV-77 Cryptographic Computers. Also included are design and equipment production,... Read More »

Iran’s army unveiled a highly mobile propellant-powered reconnaissance drone on Saturday, based on local media. The drone, named “Yasseer,” can fly for eight hours with more than a few 200 kilometers (124 miles) and reach an altitude of four,500 meters (15,000 feet), the reports said. It resembles the yankee ScanEagle, an unmanned short-range aerial surveillance vehicle that Iran claimed to have captured in late 2012. However, Iranian officials didn’t mention the U.S. drone on Saturday. “Yasseer is able to identifying targets… with its very powerful camera, and reporting them back to the bottom,” the manager of army ground forces General... Read More »

The Army is now issuing to Soldiers the more robust, more streamlined “Individual First Aid Kit II” as replacement for the older kit which was built inside an ammunition pouch for a Squad Automatic Weapon. The IFAK II contains the entire supplies of the old kit, with the addition of a second tourniquet, a tactical combat casualty card to annotate what sort of first aid was applied to a wounded Soldier, a marker, an eye fixed shield, a rubber seal with a valve for sucking chest wounds, and a strap cutter. The kit fits inside a custom pouch that may... Read More »

The Ministry of National Defense launched a job force Wednesday to take charge of the F-X III project to buy 60 fighter jets amid growing concerns over a scarcity of aircraft inside the coming years. The move came in the future after Korea decided to reject Boeing’s F-15 Silent Eagle (SE) as a result of its loss of full stealth capability. The third phase of the F-X program is aimed toward replacing the Air Force’s aging fleet of F-4s and F-5s. The team, divided into four subcommittees, is led by Lee Yong-dae, deputy minister on the office of force and... Read More »