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This is how pilots train to fly America’s most expensive fighter jets Read more at http://www.businessinsider.my/how-pilots-t...ACltl2LQv8iL.99 |
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Dec 29 2015, 11:31 PM
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Russian Arms Transfers and Asian Military Modernisation  QUOTE The Russian defence industry is a critical segment of the country’s economy, employing at least 2.5 million workers, and accounting for 20 per cent of all manufacturing jobs. QUOTE According to data put out by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), defence spending (in constant 2011 U.S. dollars) fell from US$371 billion in 1988 to a low of US$21 billion in 1998. QUOTE Between 2004 and 2014, military expenditures grew from US$41 billion to US$91.7 billion (in constant 2011 U.S. dollars) QUOTE Consequently, currently 75-80 per cent of defence industry output is for the Russian military, and about 20-25 per cent is exported QUOTE According to Russian sources, in 2014 Russian defence firms exported more than $15 billion worth of arms to more than 60 countries, and signed almost $14 billion worth of new contracts. QUOTE It is worth noting that the depreciation of the Russian ruble has actually aided overseas arms sales, as Russian arms exports are paid for in foreign currencies QUOTE over the past decade Moscow has been able to expand its customer base within the Asia Pacific, especially within Southeast Asia. In recent years, it has found new buyers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Art...ng=en&id=195382 |
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THE ARMY RETIRES ITS OLDEST DRONE  QUOTE Designed by Israel Aircraft Industries and in the United States maintained by Northrop Grumman, the MQ-5 Hunter was canceled in 1996. But soon enough war called it back. Flown in support of American forces in Kosovo in 1999, the Hunter remained active ever since. After 22 years in military use, it’s finally retiring from service. QUOTE The Hunter, known as RQ-5 when unarmed and MQ-5B when equipped with small Viper Strike guided bombs, could fly for over 12 hours at over 15,000 feet. It’s short range made it a good fit for the army, who could send one on a scouting mission 80 miles away. QUOTE Replacing the Hunter will be the Gray Eagle, a Predator-derived drone that the Army first used in Iraq in 2010. The larger drone can fly for up to 24 hours, at altitudes of 29,000 feet and with a top speed of 190 mph. Instead of guided bombs it carries four Hellfire missiles. Operating a squadron of between 9 and 12 of the Gray Eagles takes 128 people. The drone has a range of almost 250 miles, which lets it cover far more sky than even linked-up Hunters. http://www.popsci.com/army-retires-its-oldest-drone |
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Kuwait to send troops to Saudi for Yemen war: Report  QUOTE Kuwait has decided to send ground forces to take part in the war on Yemen's Houthi rebels, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday. Al-Qabas daily cited an informed source saying Kuwait's cabinet has approved sending the troops to Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition against the Houthis, as soon as early next week. Kuwait's participation in the Yemen war has so far been limited to the airforce. No details were provided about the size of the force. http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kuwait-s...eport-409957763 |
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INTERNATIONAL MILITARY REVIEW – SYRIA-IRAQ BATTLESPACE, DEC. 29, 2015 Russian air strikes had destroyed 556 militant targets in 164 combat sorties conducted since December 25. Successfully hit targets were located in Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor, and Raqqa provinces. The Russian air support helped the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) to stage offensives to the north and east of Latakia Province. Three significant plateaus towards Kabbani and Sirmaniyah fell into the army control. Separately, the pro-government forces have continued successful advances in the province of Aleppo. The SAA liberated the village of Doudyan and destroyed militant outposts and supply routes in the villages of Tal Jebin, Tal Meseybeen, Shwehene, Maaret Artiq and Shimaeya. The SAA also took control of the village of Sharba. On Dec. 27 the Iraqi Security Forces declared victory over ISIS militants in the city of Ramadi. The declaration comes after the Iraq forces encircled the city and seized the central administration complex. However, there are many pockets of militants still entrenched in various positions throughout the city. The Iraqi security forces will also have to spend significant time to clear out the remaining improvised explosive devices that infest the city. Pentagon confirmed that militants were cleared from the government complex. But some US experts have already noted that the Ramadi’s strategic value is repeatedly overestimated. According to them, Ramadi is just one location in the contested Anbar province and the Iraqi army will face serious problems in attempts to clear nearby ISIS locations in Fallujah, Hit and areas west of Haditha. This rapidly reaction marks that Iraq made a serious step in war on ISIS. A series of such steps could increase the Iraqi security forces independence from the US-led coalition support what definitely isn’t a goal of the US political leadership. http://southfront.org/international-milita...ce-dec-29-2015/ |
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Forgotten Weapons: The Sedgley Glove Gun Really Packed a Punch  QUOTE Remember that scene in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds where two of the U.S. soldiers kill German guards by punching them with pistols mounted to gloves? Well, believe it or not, the glove gun was a real weapon the U.S. military manufactured—albeit in very small numbers. QUOTE Between 50 and 200 of them were made and issued. However, there is no confirmed record of any actually being used in combat. There are suggestions that the OSS also used them, but these are also unconfirmed. QUOTE Designed for the U.S. Navy and manufactured by the RF Sedgley company, the gun is a simple device that does just what it looks like. It's a single-shot .38 S&W barrel mounted alongside a plunger, which extends beyond the muzzle of the barrel. http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/w...gley-glove-gun/ |
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Dec 30 2015, 08:55 AM
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US Aircraft Carrier Truman Narrowly Avoids Collision With Iranian Rockets  QUOTE As the USS Harry S. Truman was transiting the strait, which connects the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were conducting a live-fire exercise, officials told NBC News. QUOTE rockets were fired from a position of about 1,500 yards off the carrier's starboard side and in a direction away from the passing coalition and commercial ships and the traffic lane, the official said. The rockets were not fired at the Truman and other ships. http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151230...an-rockets.html |
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Dec 30 2015, 09:04 AM
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The Iraqi Army Can Win Ground Battles After All  QUOTE Shia paramilitary groups, many backed by Iran, filled a void left by the Iraqi army after its collapse during summer 2014. QUOTE The People’s Mobilization, or Al Hashd Al Shaabi — or simply the Hashd — is Iraq’s principle Shia paramilitary coalition, bringing together the Badr Organization and Kata’ib Hezbollah, among other groups. QUOTE But now the Iraqi army is back … in Ramadi. And the Shia paramilitaries were conspicuously absent. QUOTE War is inherently confusing and uncertain. But there is one thing for sure, and that is the Iraqi army is more capable than it was a year ago. Reuters pointed to reforms that eliminated 50,000 “ghost soldiers” http://warisboring.com/articles/the-iraqi-...tles-after-all/ |
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Syrian Army captures Beit Fares village in northern Latakia  The Syrian Arab Army’s 103rd Brigade of the Republican Guard – in coordination with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), the National Defense Forces (NDF) of Latakia City, and the Syrian Resistance – made several advances on Tuesday in the Latakia Governorate’s northern countryside after repelling the Islamist rebel offensive this past weekend in Jabal Al-Turkmen (Turkmen Mountains). On Tuesday morning, the Syrian Arab Army’s 103rd Brigade and their allies imposed full control over two villages at the southern rim of the Turkmen Mountains after a violent battle with Islamist rebels from Jabhat Al-Nusra (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) – the villages were identified as Qassab and Burj Al-Qassab. Not long after capturing the aforementioned villages, the Syrian Arab Army’s 103rd Brigade and their allies struck the Islamist rebels of Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army again; this time at the nearby village of Beit Fares, which is situated directly west of Qassab and east of Jabal Al-Zweik (Al-Zweik Mountains). Following the initial assault, the Syrian Arab Army’s 103rd Brigade and their allies (specifically the Syrian Social Nationalist Party) were able to impose full control over Beit Fares village, killing over 20 enemy combatants and seizing several assault rifles from the Islamist rebels. http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian...rthern-latakia/ |
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Dec 30 2015, 05:38 PM
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New Video Reveals Evolving Flight Operations Off China's Carrier Liaoning  QUOTE The number of aircraft based on the carrier and the number of daily flights had both increased, while “many” pilots had qualified to operate the Shenyang QUOTE China’s showcasing of a more mature aircraft carrier capability comes as claims have emerged that at least one new Chinese carrier is in production today. What is known is that China seeks a multi-carrier fleet in the 2020s QUOTE If China moves to CATOBAR format carriers it would drastically improve their combat effectiveness. The CATOBAR concept, like America’s carriers, allows for increased sortie rates and much heavier weapons carrying capabilities for fighter aircraft. QUOTE They will also need an aircraft capable accommodating catapult takeoffs. This could possibly come in the form of a navalized J-31. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/new-video...inas-1749955396 |
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Dec 30 2015, 05:49 PM
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India’s Emerging Indian Ocean Strategy  QUOTE The new publication focuses attention on India’s maritime imperatives in its near littorals, giving credence to reports that the Indian Navy is preparing to expand its sphere of operations in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). QUOTE New Delhi’s concern for its maritime neighborhood seems well-founded. Recent developments have given India’s security managers good reason to be worried about the growing threats in the IOR. QUOTE Maritime crime has been increasing, with a record number of drug hauls in the Asian littoral in the last two years (a recent seizure of more than 150 kg of heroin from a smuggling vessel by an Australian warship off the east coast of Africa, serving as the latest reminder of the severity of the drug threat in the IOR). http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/indias-emer...ocean-strategy/ |
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Raytheon Wins $102Mln US Navy Satellite Communications Contract  QUOTE “The NMT is a multiband capable satellite communications terminal that provides both protected and wideband communications,” the announcement stated on Tuesday. QUOTE According to the US secretary of the Navy website, NMT will provide deployed Naval Commanders with secure, protected, command, control and communications capabilities and will support the exchange of tactical data, imagery, real-time video, battlefield maps and targeting information. http://sputniknews.com/military/20151230/1...e-contract.html |
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I helped create ISIS’: Iraq War veteran says US policy caused 'blowback' in Middle East QUOTE “When I was stationed in Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 2003-2005, I didn’t know what the repercussions of the war would be, but I knew there would be a reckoning,” he wrote at TeleSUR. “That retribution, otherwise known as blowback, is currently being experienced around the world (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, France, Tunisia, California, and so on), with no end in sight.” QUOTE I saw my fellow Marines kill innocent people, torture innocent civilians, destroying property, mutilating dead bodies, running over dead corpses, laughing and photographing people while doing so,” he said. “For me it was very simple. I sat there in Iraq and I asked myself ‘How would I behave?’ ‘What would I think if I was in the shoes of the Iraqi people?’” QUOTE “I vividly remember the marines telling me about punching, slapping, kicking, elbowing, kneeing and head-butting Iraqis. I remember the tales of sexual torture; forcing Iraqi men to perform sexual acts on each other while marines held knives against their testicles, sometimes sodomizing them with batons,” wrote Emanuele. QUOTE “I knew what I was seeing was wrong, I knew it was immoral, I knew it was unjust, I knew it was illegal,” said Emanuele to RT, “and I knew that we would pay severe consequences in the form of the blowback as we are seeing with groups like ISIS. I knew those things were going to happen back then just from being a self-conscious person.” https://www.rt.com/usa/327404-usa-helped-create-isis-marine/ |
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Stunning Pics of the Navy Salvaging a Sunken F/A-18   QUOTE According to reports, the Super Hornet had just taken been catapulted from the Roosevelt when something prompted the crew to eject. A diver attached to the salvage operation stated that there was a problem on takeoff with one of the engines. The jet settled in 189 feet of water. The U.S. Navy's picture feed of the salvage operation shows about about half of the plane missing, including the cockpit. The rear landing gear was also down. The Navy will be looking at the engines to determine what caused the accident and prevent ones like it in the future. http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/w...he-arabian-sea/ |
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DARPA's Building a New Drone That Turns Small Ships Into an Aircraft Carriers  QUOTE DARPA’s unveiling a program called Tern—a collaboration between the agency and the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research. DARPA just awarded Phase III funding to a team led by Northrop Grumman QUOTE The new design for Phase III should look a little something like this: two propellers on a flying-wing UAV’s nose would lift it from the ship’s deck like a chopper but then propel it horizontally like a plane. The drones would be fit inside the ship when they’re not being used for sea-skimming missions. QUOTE the engineers want to make a drone that could take off and land in cramped, bumpy quarters and can fly for a long period of time. http://gizmodo.com/darpas-building-a-new-d...into-1750180010 |
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Former separatists in Indonesia's Aceh surrender   QUOTE More than 100 former separatist fighters in Indonesia's Aceh province who had hid out in the jungle and allegedly committed serious crimes have surrendered, an official said Tuesday. The fighters, led by notorious ex-combatant Nurdin bin Ismail, were a splinter faction of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which fought for years against Jakarta's rule before striking a peace deal in return for an autonomy offer in 2005. QUOTE While supporters painted Ismail as a "Robin Hood" figure who used stolen funds to help those neglected by the authorities, critics said he led an armed group allegedly responsible for crimes including the kidnap and killing of military personnel. On Monday Ismail and about 120 of his men handed themselves in and surrendered 15 guns and ammunition to the authorities. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/artic...-surrender.html |
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MARINES' ROBOT MULE IS TOO LOUD FOR WAR  QUOTE The robot is built by the Alphabet-owned Boston Dynamics. It was developed for DARPA under the name LS3, or “Legged Squad Support System”, and it can climb hills, carry weight, and follow humans into battle. It just can’t do it quietly. Rather than aiding Marines in battle, that noise turns the mechanical mule into a dead (and deadly) giveaway. QUOTE For a military that wants to dramatically increase its robotic soldiers by 2030, this is a setback, but not an insurmountable one. Next time the military asks for a legged squad support system, it should make sure it asks for a legged silent squad support system. http://www.popsci.com/marine-robot-mule-too-loud-for-war |
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Russian PAK FA to be Equipped With Futuristic Photonic Radar  QUOTE The radar will be based on Radio-Optical Phased Arrays (ROFAR), explained the adviser of the first deputy general director of concern Radio-Electronic Technology (KRET) Vladimir Mikheev. QUOTE The future radar will be based on the photonic technology that greatly expands the possibilities of communication and radar as their weight will be decreased by more than half and the resolution will increase tenfold. http://sputniknews.com/military/20151230/1...k-fa-radar.html |
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China’s Military Intelligence System is Changing  QUOTE The proposed creation of a separate headquarters for PLA ground forces and reorganization of the military regions will reverberate throughout military intelligence QUOTE The PLA’s basic organization of intelligence includes the General Staff Department (GSD), the military regions, and intelligence departments within the PLA’s two services and one autonomous branch — respectively, the PLA Navy (PLAN), PLA Air Force (PLAAF), and the PLA Second Artillery Force (PLASAF) QUOTE The GSD’s Second Department (2PLA) manages clandestine and overt human intelligence operations (HUMINT) QUOTE The GSD Third Department (3PLA) is the national signals intelligence (SIGINT) authority, roughly comparable to the U.S. National Security Agency or the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters QUOTE The GSD Fourth Department (4PLA) is responsible for electronic intelligence (ELINT) and electronic warfare (EW) QUOTE The military regions and the services divide their intelligence functions between a headquarters intelligence department supported by at least one technical reconnaissance bureau: the PLAAF has three, the PLAN two. QUOTE The technical reconnaissance bureaus collect information through technical means, presumably tactical SIGINT, tactical ELINT, and, according to some reports, computer network operations. QUOTE The ground forces’ domination of the GSD and the other three general departments (armament, logistics, and political) stems in part from a lack of separation between the ground forces and these departments that are supposed to serve the entire Chinese military. QUOTE First, the ground forces’ new headquarters will probably have its own intelligence department and possibly even a technical reconnaissance bureau. QUOTE Second, to the extent that the GSD intelligence departments support the ground forces, observers should expect to see elements of these departments transferred to the ground forces’ intelligence department and technical reconnaissance bureau. QUOTE Third, in the imminent reorganization of the military regions into “battle zone commands,” their intelligence departments and possibly their technical reconnaissance bureaus must be reorganized accordingly. QUOTE If the Chinese military implements every single one of the announced proposals, this round of reform could wind up being as significant as the reforms undertaken in the early 1950s. http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/chinas-mi...em-is-changing/ |
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The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-Producing and Military Services Companies, 2014     http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Art...ng=en&id=195385 |
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