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Pretty much. The American consumer has to pay more for lumber, and they also have to pay more money for new houses. In the end, the end consumer gets shafted. And besides, American softwood ain't as great as Canadian softwood; the grains in Canadian softwood tend to be longer and stronger...

Well, from my vantage point (which isn't that good admitly, but I will venture a guess), such a proposal will work like this: Boeing will be tasked to develop a KC-737, based off the Boeing 737-800 airframe (of which the USN will be using extensively in their P-8 MMA's) for a tactical tanker...

EADS will be shipping the airframes, once they are in a state to fly, to Alabama for final fitting and flight certification. Besides, with how Boeing is now building their jets, their products can be hardly called American as well. For example, with the Boeing 777, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2006/04/canada-holland-order-17-sirius-shipboard-longrange-infared-sensors/index.php#more 12 SIRIUS sensors for the Halifax frigates, plus a land based trainer, for a total of 13 systems, while the Royal Netherlands Navy at the same time has placed an order of...

Problem with the old Dynavert was that the tilting mechanism took up a significant chunk of the interior, meaning that there was no room for cargo...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060421.wxplanes21/BNStory/Front/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20060421.wxplanes21 Also of note is that there are talks to be bumped up the production line by taking airframes already on queue for the USAF, as we have US approval to do so. So C-17's will...

The nice thing about the Osprey is indeed its speed. That means that the Osprey can get in faster and be more of a surprise at an LZ, and when it has offloaded its load, it can quickly zoom right out of the area. In airplanes these days, armour is not the best way to protect them against ground...

The Americans are working on a M203 replacement, called the XM320. HK was contracted this year to provide them. Sounds like exactly what you are describing, as it has a handgrip and can be used on its own.

The Shillelagh missile and the 152mm gun that fired it was an expensive failure. It was big, which prevented large loads of ammunition in the related M551 Sheridan. Typical loads consisted of only 8 missiles and 20 M409 HEAT rounds. In addition the missile proved to have a very long minimum...

The nice thing about the Gripen is that its engine is a modification of the GE F404 engine, of which we use in our CF-18's.

I would recommend this group as they claim to champion clear English, if you want to be nitpicky about English usage: http://www.plainenglishawards.com/

Ok, I know what you are talking about. The actual name is the Type 021 missile fast attack craft (FAC) (NATO codename: Huangfeng class). It is a Chinese copy of the Soviet Osa I class boat, and over 105 were built. The Chinese have mostly retired this type by the 1990's, but they are still in...

Even though it is late, here is a grumpy Santa Claus video: http://www.jibjab.com/JokeBox/JokeBox_JJOrig.aspx?movieid=67

From what I can gather (I don't have my copy of Jane's handy, I am moving and right now it is packed somewhere in a box), it is a missile boat. The biggest of these Chinese missile boats are 520 tons, and that is for the latest Type 520T (Houjian Class) missile boat. That design has a draft of...

Just did some digging on that quote from Mikhail Kalashnikov. It was in response to a Washington Post news clipping that Venezuela canceled a contract from Kalashnikov’s Izhmash factory for 100,000 AK-103 rifles because they were "outdated". He fully stated, as from the following article...

Don't forget that the Kalashnikov gas system has been heavily copied and modified by many manufacturers, Western and Eastern Bloc alike. Examples of such copies are the FN's FNC, IMI Galil, Valmet M82, SIG 550, and the numerous Chinese knock-offs and designed patterned off the AK-47. Mikhail...

The EADS Airbus A330 MRTT has better range, increased fuel capacity without sacrificing main deck space, can carry main deck pallets, can be converted quickly into a troop carrier for 300 soldiers, and is on paper, the better airplane, and quite a few other air forces agree, namely, the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060414/bs_nm/arms_usa_tankers_dc_2 It's a basic competition between EADS (with their Airbus A330 MRTT design) and Boeing (with their KC767 design). Even though EADS has the better design, they have a really poor chance of winning, due the the fact that the EADS is...

According to the article, part of that deal involved $185 million USD going to the manufacturer, KMW, for repair and technical modification of the Leopard 2A4 MBTs and for supply of special tools. In addition, KMW has been contracted to provide repair capabilities for Leopard 2A4 MBTs in Greece...

The good news is that one of our NATO allies, Germany, wants to offload their entire fleet of Leopard 2A4's off onto friendly allies fast. They already offloaded some to Spain, Turkey, Greece, Poland, etc. The fire sale of Leopard 2 A4's is still ongoing, as they want to get down to 350 MBT's...