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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 17:10

Army Pilots Become Naval Aviators (UK)
source flightglobal.com July 13, 2011: STRATEGY PAGE Britain has been very successful operating their AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships off HMS Ocean (an amphibious assault ship with a carrier-like flight deck). For one month, starting on June 3rd, four...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 17:05

Chinese UAVs Go To Sea
source china-defense.blogspot.com July 14, 2011: STRATEGY PAGE Chinese warships were recently seen, for the first time, operating UAVs at sea (over a thousand kilometers south of Okinawa). Japanese P-3 maritime reconnaissance aircraft spotted a fixed...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 17:00

Saudi Arabia Buys A Panzer Korps
July 16, 2011: STRATEGY PAGE Saudi Arabia is buying 244 Leopard 2A7+ tanks from Germany. Saudi Arabia is believed to have already ordered 44, and now has increased that order. It was only a year ago that German tank manufacturer KMW has revealed this,...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 16:55

Operation Hammer Down
7/15/2011 STRATEGY PAGE U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles, from the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, like the ones shown here, helped provide 176 consecutive hours of air support and drop more than 100 bombs in support of Operation Hammer Down II....
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 16:50

China Details Anti-ship Missile Plans
Jul 15, 2011 By Bradley Perrett aviation week and space technology Beijing - For more than a century, surface warships have been struggling to survive against mines, submarines, aircraft and, more recently, cruise missiles. Now China’s rapid development...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 16:45

Minutemanski Wants It All
source air-ace.blogspot.com July 15, 2011: STRATEGY PAGE Russia recently announce that it had deployed another regiment of ten RS-24 mobile ICBMs. The current plan calls for replacing most Russian Cold War era ICBMs over the next six years with the new...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 16:40

The Afghan Supply Line Shifts From Pakistan To Central Asia
source karachitelegraph.com July 15, 2011: STRATEGY PAGE The United States has finally overcome obstacles (mainly diplomatic) to moving its Afghanistan supply lines from the Pakistani port of Karachi, to rail lines running through Russia, Kazakhstan and...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 16:35

The Limits of China’s J-15 Ship-borne Fighter
source defensetech.org 2011-07-16(China Military News cited from the-diplomat.com and written by David Axe) The People's Liberation Army Navy has finally broken the silence about its new carrier-based jet fighter, the J-15. While outside observers have...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 16:30

Why to Sell F-16s to Taiwan
2011-07-13 (China Military News cited from the-diplomat.com and written by Matt Anderson) It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Obama administration, fearing another rupture in its hard-earned progress in restoring military ties with China’s People's...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 12:45

Some Numbers of China's military modernisation
2011-07-13 (China Military News cited from telegraph.co.uk and written by Malcolm Moore) A look at the key figures that tell the tale of China's increasing military power: +12.6 per cent - the rise in China's official military budget to around £56.2 billion,...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 12:40

US Army awards secure mobile comms contract to TCS
source satnews.com July 16, 2011 SHEPARD GROUP Source: TeleCommunication Systems TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS), a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology, today announced that it has been awarded a new order...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 12:35

USAF awards situational awareness contracts to Northrop Grumman for C-130Js and C-17s
July 16, 2011 SHEPARD GROUP Source: Northrop Grumman The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $65 million contract to provide tactical situational awareness to airlift aircrews, fulfilling an urgent operational need for enhanced communications...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 12:30

First Apache Joint Tactical Radio delivered to US Army
July 14, 2011 SHEPARD GROUP Source: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin has delivered the first secure, Joint Tactical Radio to the U.S. Army's AH-64D Apache Avionics Integration Lab. The Airborne, Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS)...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:30

New Missile 'Prahaar' Debut Testfire Tomorrow
July 16, 2011 by Shiv Aroor LIVEFIST India's newest missile, Prahaar, is scheduled to be test-fired tomorrow from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) on the country's eastern seaboard. The missile (the existence of which had been unknown until a few weeks...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:25

Belarus to exhibit military electronics, drones at MAKS-2011
MINSK, July 16 (RIA Novosti) Several Belarusian firms will showcase over 40 types of military-purpose electronic equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) at the MAKS-2011 air show near Moscow in August, a Belarusian defense industry official said....
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:20

Thales pays up in Taiwan frigate battle
TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 15 (UPI) French defense company Thales ended a decade-long legal battle when it wired a court-ordered fine of $875 million into a Taiwan government bank account, the country's Central News Agency reported. Earlier this month a Paris...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:15

Défense antimissile : l'Europe peu impliquée, une carte à jouer pour la France
13 Juillet 2011 Fenêtre sur l'Europe Selon un rapport du Sénat récemment publié, en matière de défense antimissile, "il n’y a pas de vision européenne commune sur un projet pourtant destiné à protéger le territoire européen". Or, "la France a La France...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:10

New Delhi va rénover ses Mirage 2000
photo vayu-sena.indianmilitaryhistory.org 14/07/2011 par Michel Cabirol – LaTribune.fr Le gouvernement indien a donné son feu vert à une partie d'un contrat de 2,4 milliards de dollars portant sur la modernisation de 51 Mirage 2000 de l'armée indienne....
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:05

MRAPs Continue to Aid the Fight Against Insurgent Attacks and IEDs
MRAP with improved suspension designed to better tackle some of the harsh terrain found in Afghanistan [image: US Army] 07/13/2011 by Richard de Silva -defenceiq.com Live from the International Armoured vehicles event, Scott Blaney, keynote speaker and...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 11:00

The US Military and the Culture of Contracting
Blackwater helicopter over Republican Palace, International (Green) Zone -Baghdad, Iraq [image: Wikipedia] 07/14/2011 BY Tom Wein (writes for Defence Dateline Group) -defenceiq.com The defence industry is often viewed as a classic producer of complex...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 06:40

Pourquoi la Chine a besoin de porte-avions
source meretmarine.com 15.07.2011 Source: le Quotidien du Peuple en ligne Les porte-avions sont devenus partie intégrante d'une marine digne de ce nom. En fait, une marine qui n'a pas de porte-avions n'est pas vraiment considérée comme une bonne marine....
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 06:35

L’US Navy pourrait réduire ses flottes de sous-marins et porte-avions
15 juillet 2011 Par Rédacteur en chef. PORTAIL DES SOUS-MARINS Comme c’est l’époque de la préparation des budgets aux Etats-Unis, il y a des discussions sur ce que le Pentagone pourrait « guillotiner ». Et, comme d’habitude, les porte-avions sont en tête...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 06:30

Plus d’un bâtiment de l’US Navy sur 5 n’est pas apte au combat
15 juillet 2011 Par Rédacteur en chef. PORTAIL DES SOUS-MARINS Plus d’un cinquième des bâtiments de l’US Navy ne peut naviguer ou se battre, à un moment où la demande de bâtiments est élevée. Et le nombre de bâtiments indisponibles va probablement augmenter,...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 06:25

EU Seeks To Develop UAS Strategy by Mid-2012
14 Jul 2011 By JULIAN HALE DefenseNews BRUSSELS - The European Commission is aiming to put together a strategy for unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in the first half of 2012. Preparations for the strategy were launched at the Paris Air Show in June. "The...
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16 juillet 2011 6 16 /07 /juillet /2011 06:20

China's Silver Hawk UAV Program Advances
A Chinese Silver Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle is seen. The ASN-209 made its first test flight June 1. (Wendell Minnick / Staff) 14 Jul 2011 By WENDELL MINNICK DefenseNews TAIPEI - China has developed a UAV for use by the People's Liberation Army Navy...
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