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CTRM EX-01 Prototype (Mini Seeker UAV)



The ‘ EX-01 ’ was the first prototype with maximum weight of 15 kg, wingspan of 8 feet and was flown as a Remotely Pilot Vehicle (RPV) with video camera payload but without autopilot system.

In 2004, CTRM collaborated with Ikramatic Systems to begin the development of a Malaysian autopilot system for the ‘ EX-01 ’ aircraft. The aircraft was redesigned and subsequently renamed as ‘ SR-01 ’ . A total of 8 aircrafts were built. The new aircraft had a maximum weight of 35kg, increased wingspan, and a powerful engine. It was the platform that successfully proved the viability of Ikramatic’s Autopilot System (IMRAN).

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Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor 4195 The Final Production

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Exclusive : Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer



In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran.


By Scott Peterson, Payam Faramarzi | CSM


Iran guided the CIA's " lost " stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran.

Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel, says the engineer, who works for one of many Iranian military and civilian teams currently trying to unravel the drone’s stealth and intelligence secrets, and who could not be named for his safety.

Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a technique proudly claimed by Iranian commanders in September, the Iranian specialists then reconfigured the drone's GPS coordinates to make it land in Iran at what the drone thought was its actual home base in Afghanistan.

" The GPS navigation is the weakest point, " the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran's " electronic ambush " of the highly classified US drone. " By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain. "

The “ spoofing ” technique that the Iranians used – which took into account precise landing altitudes, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal data – made the drone “ land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications ” from the US control center, says the engineer.

The revelations about Iran's apparent electronic prowess come as the US, Israel, and some European nations appear to be engaged in an ever-widening covert war with Iran, which has seen assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, explosions at Iran's missile and industrial facilities, and the Stuxnet computer virus that set back Iran’s nuclear program.

Now this engineer’s account of how Iran took over one of America’s most sophisticated drones suggests Tehran has found a way to hit back. The techniques were developed from reverse-engineering several less sophisticated American drones captured or shot down in recent years, the engineer says, and by taking advantage of weak, easily manipulated GPS signals, which calculate location and speed from multiple satellites.


Western military experts and a number of published papers on GPS spoofing indicate that the scenario described by the Iranian engineer is plausible.

"Even modern combat-grade GPS [is] very susceptible” to manipulation, says former US Navy electronic warfare specialist Robert Densmore, adding that it is “ certainly possible ” to recalibrate the GPS on a drone so that it flies on a different course. “ I wouldn't say it's easy, but the technology is there. ”

In 2009, Iran-backed Shiite militants in Iraq were found to have downloaded live, unencrypted video streams from American Predator drones with inexpensive, off-the-shelf software. But Iran’s apparent ability now to actually take control of a drone is far more significant.

Iran asserted its ability to do this in September, as pressure mounted over its nuclear program.

Gen. Moharam Gholizadeh, the deputy for electronic warfare at the air defense headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), described to Fars News how Iran could alter the path of a GPS-guided missile – a tactic more easily applied to a slower-moving drone.

“ We have a project on hand that is one step ahead of jamming, meaning ‘deception’ of the aggressive systems, ” said Gholizadeh, such that “ we can define our own desired information for it so the path of the missile would change to our desired destination. ”

Gholizadeh said that “ all the movements of these [enemy drones] ” were being watched, and “ obstructing ” their work was “ always on our agenda. ”

That interview has since been pulled from Fars’ Persian-language website. And last month, the relatively young Gholizadeh died of a heart attack, which some Iranian news sites called suspicious – suggesting the electronic warfare expert may have been a casualty in the covert war against Iran.


Iran's growing electronic capabilities

Iranian lawmakers say the drone capture is a " great epic " and claim to be " in the final steps of breaking into the aircraft's secret code. "

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told Fox News on Dec. 13 that the US will " absolutely " continue the drone campaign over Iran, looking for evidence of any nuclear weapons work. But the stakes are higher for such surveillance, now that Iran can apparently disrupt the work of US drones.

US officials skeptical of Iran’s capabilities blame a malfunction, but so far can't explain how Iran acquired the drone intact. One American analyst ridiculed Iran’s capability, telling Defense News that the loss was “like dropping a Ferrari into an ox-cart technology culture. ”

Yet Iran’s claims to the contrary resonate more in light of new details about how it brought down the drone – and other markers that signal growing electronic expertise.

A former senior Iranian official who asked not to be named said: " There are a lot of human resources in Iran.... Iran is not like Pakistan. "

“ Technologically, our distance from the Americans, the Zionists, and other advanced countries is not so far to make the downing of this plane seem like a dream for us … but it could be amazing for others, ” deputy IRGC commander Gen. Hossein Salami said this week.

According to a European intelligence source, Iran shocked Western intelligence agencies in a previously unreported incident that took place sometime in the past two years, when it managed to “blind” a CIA spy satellite by “ aiming a laser burst quite accurately. ”

More recently, Iran was able to hack Google security certificates, says the engineer. In September, the Google accounts of 300,000 Iranians were made accessible by hackers. The targeted company said "circumstantial evidence" pointed to a "state-driven attack" coming from Iran, meant to snoop on users.

Cracking the protected GPS coordinates on the Sentinel drone was no more difficult, asserts the engineer.


US knew of GPS systems' vulnerability


Use of drones has become more risky as adversaries like Iran hone countermeasures. The US military has reportedly been aware of vulnerabilities with pirating unencrypted drone data streams since the Bosnia campaign in the mid-1990s.

Top US officials said in 2009 that they were working to encrypt all drone data streams in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan – after finding militant laptops loaded with days' worth of data in Iraq – and acknowledged that they were "subject to listening and exploitation. "

Perhaps as easily exploited are the GPS navigational systems upon which so much of the modern military depends.

" GPS signals are weak and can be easily outpunched [overridden] by poorly controlled signals from television towers, devices such as laptops and MP3 players, or even mobile satellite services, " Andrew Dempster, a professor from the University of New South Wales School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, told a March conference on GPS vulnerability in Australia.

" This is not only a significant hazard for military, industrial, and civilian transport and communication systems, but criminals have worked out how they can jam GPS, " he says.

The US military has sought for years to fortify or find alternatives to the GPS system of satellites, which are used for both military and civilian purposes. In 2003, a “ Vulnerability Assessment Team ” at Los Alamos National Laboratory published research explaining how weak GPS signals were easily overwhelmed with a stronger local signal.

“ A more pernicious attack involves feeding the GPS receiver fake GPS signals so that it believes it is located somewhere in space and time that it is not,” reads the Los Alamos report. “ In a sophisticated spoofing attack, the adversary would send a false signal reporting the moving target’s true position and then gradually walk the target to a false position. ”

The vulnerability remains unresolved, and a paper presented at a Chicago communications security conference in October laid out parameters for successful spoofing of both civilian and military GPS units to allow a "seamless takeover" of drones or other targets.

To “ better cope with hostile electronic attacks, ” the US Air Force in late September awarded two $47 million contracts to develop a " navigation warfare " system to replace GPS on aircraft and missiles, according to the Defense Update website.

Official US data on GPS describes " the ongoing GPS modernization program " for the Air Force, which " will enhance the jam resistance of the military GPS service, making it more robust. "


Why the drone's underbelly was damaged


Iran's drone-watching project began in 2007, says the Iranian engineer, and then was stepped up and became public in 2009 – the same year that the RQ-170 was first deployed in Afghanistan with what were then state-of-the-art surveillance systems.

In January, Iran said it had shot down two conventional (nonstealth) drones, and in July, Iran showed Russian experts several US drones – including one that had been watching over the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordo, near the holy city of Qom.

In capturing the stealth drone this month at Kashmar, 140 miles inside northeast Iran, the Islamic Republic appears to have learned from two years of close observation.

Iran displayed the drone on state-run TV last week, with a dent in the left wing and the undercarriage and landing gear hidden by anti-American banners.

The Iranian engineer explains why : " If you look at the location where we made it land and the bird's home base, they both have [almost] the same altitude, " says the Iranian engineer. " There was a problem [of a few meters] with the exact altitude so the bird's underbelly was damaged in landing; that's why it was covered in the broadcast footage. "

Prior to the disappearance of the stealth drone earlier this month, Iran’s electronic warfare capabilities were largely unknown – and often dismissed.

" We all feel drunk [with happiness] now, " says the Iranian engineer. " Have you ever had a new laptop ? Imagine that excitement multiplied many-fold. " When the Revolutionary Guard first recovered the drone, they were aware it might be rigged to self-destruct, but they " were so excited they could not stay away. "



* Scott Peterson, the Monitor's Middle East correspondent, wrote this story with an Iranian journalist who publishes under the pen name Payam Faramarzi and cannot be further identified for security reasons.

Boustead Naval Shipyard Gowind Frigate (Littoral Combat Ship)

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Boustead Naval Shipyard gets RM9bil contract



KUALA LUMPUR : The Defence Ministry has awarded Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd a RM9bil contract to design, build and deliver six second-generation patrol vessels, or littoral combat ships (Frigate Class).

Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC) said in a statement to Bursa Malaysia that the contract awarded to its associate, Boustead Naval Shipyard, would be implemented over three Malaysia Plans, 10, 11 and 12.

The delivery of the ship was expected in 2017, with follow-on ships every six months thereafter, it said.

It said the contract would have no material effect on the earnings of BHIC for the current financial year ending Dec 31, but would contribute positively to the future earnings of the group.

None of the directors nor substantial shareholders of BHIC or persons connected with it had any interest, direct or indirect, in the contract, it said.


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JMSDF Destroyer Teruzuki






JS Teruzuki :

- Teruzuki, DD-116.
- Launched at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard in Nagasaki.
- Second of five ships of the class to be built.
- To be commissioned in 2012, third and fourth ship in class to be commissioned in 2013.
- Displacement: 5,000 tons, fully loaded 6,800 tons.
- Maximum speed: 30 knots
- Electronics: OPS-20C search radar, OYQ-11 ACDS, FCS-3 AAW System, OQQ-22 ASW System, NOLQ-3D EW System
- Armament: 1 Mk. 45 5″ gun, 4 x 2 sets of Type 90 anti-ship missiles, 32 vertical launch silos for missiles (Enhanced Sea Sparrow, ASROC), 2 triple tube HOS-303 324mm torpedo mounts
- Aviation complement: 2 SH-60 helicopters
- Equipped with ATECS battle command system

JS Teruzuki was previously known during development as 20DD.




New JMSDF Destroyer Teruzuki Launched

The Maritime Self Defense Force’s latest destroyer, JS Teruzuki, was launched September 15th. Teruzuki was launched six months after the lead ship in her class, Akizuki.

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Bunga Mas 6 (Auxiliary Ship)

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Custodian : Malaysia
BuNo : 123456
Modex : M32-06
Location : St Augustine FL.
Contact : Sean Campbell



News article :

A-4 Gave Grumman the boost it needed Thursday, October 31, 1985 Supplement To The St. Augustine Record, Florida, USA -No named author-

" When Grumman St. Augustine delivers the last of 40 A-4 jet fighters to Malaysia by the end of the year, it will mark the completion of the company's biggest contract to date and a project that put the local plant on the world map of the aviation service industry.

Company officials credit their successful completion of the $200-million job with establishing Grumman St. Augustine's reputation in the industry. It proved that " We have the capability " to work on " virtually any " tactical airplane in the nation's airborne arsenal, according to corporate President, Joe Walter.

The 30-year old A-4 Skyhawks had been bought by the Malaysian Air Force from a mothballed fleet at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The planes were disassembled into engine, tail, wings, and fuselage and the components were shipped to St. Augustine for further disassembly and overhaul, then rebuilt and flown to Malaysia on an 11-stop ferry flight of more than 11,000 miles.

The work included a complete paint stripping and cleaning, replacement of all defective parts and various modifications to modernize the vintage fighters.

Each plane got a new set of wiring. It's electronics gear was replaced with an up-to-date avionics package including a totally new instrument panel for the cockpit, and the weapons system was replaced as well.

Grumman also converted six of the single-seat jets into two-seat trainers. The cockpit modification was done at Grumman's plant in Bethpage, NY, but the new airframe kits were installed here [St. Augustine].

The first test flight of the rebuilt Skyhawks was in April 1984. The following July four Malaysian Air Force Officers arrived to begin training as flight instructors, and the first flight of one of the trainers was in October.

Delivery of the first refurbished planes began in December, and Grumman won a $220,000 bonus from the Malaysian Government by beating a March 31 deadline for delivery of 16 Skyhawks. In fact, the 17th A-4 was in Malaysia by April 1.

The company rewarded it's employees, then numbering about 820, with tax-paid cash bonuses of up to $200 each.

Besides the profits resulting from the A-4 project, Grumman St. Augustine enjoyed some spinoff benefits by way of improvements to it's technological capacities.

For instance, the company acquired a computerized electronic testing system for checking newly installed wiring in the jets.

To operate the new electronic gear, Grumman's workers installed hundreds of miles of wiring in each Skyhawk. Manual testing to ensure each connection was properly made would cost thousands of dollars worth of man-hours. [Author has marginal understanding of topic/What the author was trying to say is that the computerized system was able to make quick work of testing the hundreds of miles of wires installed in each Skyhawk, as opposed to manual testing which would have been very costly. -Sean Campbell/A-4 Project Team].

Thanks to the A-4 project, though, Grumman now has a machine that can plug into a test socket on the plane [Wiring Harness Quick Disconnect/Cannon Plugs. -Sean Campbell-A-4 Project Team] and check all of its electrical connections in minutes.

Walter is hopeful of landing another A-4 contract next year, this one with the Government of Kuwait to refurbish 30 Skyhawks.

" Our customers are doing the advertising, and that's the best kind you can get, " he remarked.

And that's why one of the most common bumper stickers seen on the roads of St. Johns County announces: " I love the A-4. "


Provided by Sean Campbell : " You can just see the top of my head and dark sunglasses just below the DANGER stencil on the intake. "



Sources : http://www.a4skyhawk.org/

Gov't begins discussions on easing self-imposed arms export ban



Politics Dec. 18, 2011 - 07:23AM JST



TOKYO — The Japanese government this week began a series of meetings aimed at easing its self-imposed ban on arms exports and related technologies to allow more joint development and production of weapons with other nations.

Senior vice ministers of the foreign and defense ministries met to discuss the policy.

The new measure would enable shipments to countries with which Japan co-develops arms and stimulate the domestic defense industry by promoting joint development and production of key arms, such as next-generation fighter jets, with the U.S. and Europe. It would also cut the nation’s defense budget

However, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told a news conference that Tokyo would continue to prohibit arms exports to nations that are state sponsors of terrorism, violate the human rights of their citizens or lack sufficient controls over arms sales.

Japan currently bans almost all weapons exports, except for special cases such as those relating to the joint development of a missile defense system with the United States.



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Sketch of Sea Control Ship (1974) by AD Baker III from U.S. Aircraft Carriers: an Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.







This 325-ft SWATH ship was proposed by the David W Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center in 1980 to operate short takeoff, vertical landing (STOVL) fighters.







A proposed conversion of a US Navy Spruance class destroyer to operate Harrier jump-jets.






Another view of a Spruance conversion, operating a Grumman vertical take off aircraft.







Another interesting concept was the short-lived Skyhook proposal, to have a crane-equipped ship to operate Harriers using the Skyhook method.

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Iran Unveils 20 Important Scientific, Defense Projects like nanotech, laser,&missile



Iranian DM Unveils 20 Important Scientific, Defense Projects



TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi on Tuesday unveiled 20 important projects in energy, nanotechnology, microelectronic, optic, laser, missile and naval fields.


" One of the projects is the designing and building of a high-frequency electronic part named David Salitani which will provide the ground for the production of Salitani transistors in Iran, " Vahidi told reporters in Tehran, explaining that the transistor would provide the country with the possibility to produce highly fast electronic circuits for large capacity telecommunication which cannot be tapped by anyone.

"Another system which was inaugurated today is a machine which generates electricity and heat concurrently while using only one energy source like natural gas or oil, " he added.

Vahidi pointed out that the system has a very high and unrivalled efficiency rate of 80% of energy production, while the figure stands at around 30% to 35% in power plants.

Iran has made huge achievements in various fields of science and technology, from nuclear knowledge to stem cell and Nano technology.

In a most recent case, Iranian Health Minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi announced in September that the country would soon start production of 15 types of anti-cancer drugs.

" 15 types of monoclonal anti-body drugs are being synthesized with the help of the Scientific Department of the Presidential Office, using hi-tech technology, " Vahid Dastjerdi said.

Also earlier this year, Iranian scientists succeeded in producing new types of medication for treating different kinds of cancer, viral diseases and arthritis with 100% positive results.

Iran has also taken wide strides in designing and manufacturing different types of light, semi-heavy and heavy weapons, military tools and equipment. Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.



Sources : http://english.farsnews.com/






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F-INSAS Rifle Design Clears Audit, To Go Into Production From Jan 2012



Published December 28, 2011







The defence ministry may no longer have to search for an advanced rifle to arm the Indian infantry soldier of the future under the F-Insas project. Rifle Factory Ishapore (RFI) claims to have come up with an advanced variant of the existing 5.56 mm Insas rifle that will go into production from January, 2012. “ The rifle is an extremely modern weapon that will meet with the requirements of the future infantryman.

Our designs have already cleared the audit and production is expected to start from January, ” a source said.
RFI has already manufactured over a million Insas rifles for distribution among security personnel in India. The Insas was first introduced before the Kargil war and several variants have since been developed. When the Future Infantry Soldier as System (F-Insas) project was launched by the defence ministry, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) got together to develop weapons for the soldier of the future.

Under the F-Insas project, the infantryman will be kitted with state-of-theart equipment including weapons, protective gear and communications systems. The soldier’s uniform would include bullet-proof clothing and the visor on his helmet would display maps and gunsights. The future soldiers would also carry palmtops and other advanced communications gear.

Among the weapons for the F-Insas project is a multi-calibre carbine for Close Quarter Battle (CQB) and a rifle. OFB has already developed the Milap multi-calibre carbine and handed it over to the Army for field trials. The carbine is modular in structure and can fire 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm and also 6.8 mm rounds. It also has an under belly grenade launcher for air-burst grenades. The OFB believes that this weapon that is expected to cost nearly . 50,000 apiece will solve the Army’s problems for days to come.

For the rifle, the defence ministry is on the lookout for something on the lines of the Israeli Tavor. In fact, nearly 5,000 Tavors have already been imported for use by the Special Forces. RFI sources say that the F-Insas developed by them at Ishapore would meet the ministry’s requirements and there would be no need to go in for further imports.

The efforts that have gone in for this project has bagged S K Rath of RFI the best general manager award from OFB. Although details were not available, sources revealed that the new rifle will be modular and have several advanced components. It may even have a computer chip inside.
“ The first phase of the F-Insas programme should be completed by 2012. We believe that the rifle developed by RFI will meet the requirements of the Army, ” an official said.



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Velayat-90 Naval Drill



The Islamic Republic of Iran's Navy started its grand drill called “ Velayat-90 ”, the operational area is in the Hormuz Strait and includes waters in the Sea of Oman and free waters in the Indian Ocean up to Gulf of Aden.

Navy floats out first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier



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Once back at building bay, ship will be launched at a 20,000-tonne displacement : naval source


The first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) of the Navy was floated out at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), at a low-key event attended by senior shipping and naval officers on Thursday.

Among those present were Union Shipping Secretary K. Mohandas; Rear Admiral K.N. Vaidyanathan, Director General, Naval Design; and Commodore K. Subramaniam, Chairman and Managing Director of CSL.

The floating ceremony was followed by a meeting to review the progress in the work being done on the aircraft carrier, a 40,000-tonne fleet air defence platform of the Navy, which will be named after the legendary INS Vikrant. The Union Shipping Secretary told The Hindu that the work on the carrier was progressing, albeit not as per schedule, as so many variables were being factored into the extremely complex construction process.

The official added that the commissioning of the carrier, the keel of which was laid in February 2009, was likely to overshoot its original timeline.

According to a senior naval functionary, the carrier was ‘technically floated out' as the shipyard needed the dry-dock for ‘some other commercial work. ' “ The carrier has taken on about 14,000 tonnes. She would now undergo interior outfitting, including the laying of pipes before being dry-docked again in the latter half of next year for integration of the propulsion gear-box, generators and the like, ” he told The Hindu.

As earlier reported by The Hindu, a delay in the delivery of gear boxes and associated systems had considerably slowed down the construction of the prestigious carrier. Naval officers, however, put on a brave face saying that the phase in which teething trouble was encountered was over. “ The gear box is ready and undergoing trials, at last. The underwater package is all lined up but the rest of the equipment has to be identified and tested, ” said a naval source.

After facing initial hiccups due to paucity of supply of steel, the carrier project got the much-required thrust with the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) and the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) fashioning carrier-grade steel indigenously.

After the steel supply stabilised, problems pertaining to quality gearbox put the brakes on the project. Elecon Engineering Company Limited, a Gujarat-based firm which had earlier manufactured CODOG marine gear boxes for the Navy's Shivalik-class stealth frigates, found itself in the red attempting to make the carrier's huge main gearboxes. “ They have been able to overcome the difficulties with support from a German firm, ” said a Navy officer.


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