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SP's MAI - Issue No. 6 | March 16-31, 2014

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Lessons from 1962
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  India failed to read Chinese intentions despite Chinese ousting nationalists from Manchuria in 1948, sweeping into Tibet in 1951, occupying Sinkiang and shelling Taiwan in 1954, occupying Aksai Chin from 1955 to 1957...

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  AEROSPACE
  Jamnagar airbase gets Mi-17V5 helicopters

  It was a proud moment for the Helicopter Unit at the Air Force Station in Jamnagar, when state-of-theart Mi-17V5s were formally inducted at the base on March 19.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  Cyber security drill much ahead of 2020 Olympics in Japan

  Japan held a government-wide cyber security drill recently in a bid to improve coordination among public agencies and major businesses...

• CORPORATE
  Saab builds for expansion in the naval domain

  Defence and security company Saab is expanding its activities in the naval arena. Saab is therefore recruiting new employees to strengthen and develop its naval capabilities.

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  TECHNOLOGY
  Excalibur prototype extends reach of high-energy lasers

  High-energy lasers (HEL) have the potential to benefit a variety of military missions, particularly as weapons or as high-bandwidth communications devices.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Facilitation of Defence Offsets
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Perhaps there is need to provide higher multiplier values to extremely critical technologies required by DRDO in order to attract foreign vendors.

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  AEROSPACE
  The 3,500th Mi-17 delivered to India by Rosoboronexport and Russian Helicopters

  Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec, has built the 3,500th export version of the Mi-17 at Kazan Helicopters.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Amanda Seyfried and her Swiss knife

  Amanda Seyfried and her Swiss knife American actress, singer and model Amanda Seyfried took to Twitter recently sharing a picture of her Swiss Army knife...

• CORPORATE
  Finmeccanica approves new project

  The Board of Directors of Finmeccanica, convened under the chairmanship of Gianni De Gennaro, examined and approved the project for a New Group Organisational and Operating Model applying...

• TECHNOLOGY
  Boeing Phantom Swift selected for DARPA X-plane competition

  Phantom Swift, a prototype Boeing initially built in less than a month, has been accepted to be part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) X-plane programme.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Uighurs strike back
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Chinese analysts say the most potent threat to China is that of Islamic fundamentalism that defies all borders and is already emanating in the heart of China spearheaded by the ETIM.

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  AEROSPACE
  Russian fifth-generation jetfighter T-50 flight tests

  The Russian Air Force is getting down to the official testing of their T-50 fifthgeneration jetfighter in what is evidence that the aircraft is actually ready and can soon be passed into service.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  India assisting in search ops for Malaysia Airline

  With a request for help from the Government of Malaysia in tracing the missing Malaysia Airline aircraft, the focus of the search has shifted westward towards Andaman Sea.

• CORPORATE
  L-3 acquires Data Tactics Corporation

  L-3 acquires Data Tactics Corporation L-3 Communications announced that it has acquired Data Tactics Corporation.

• TECHNOLOGY
  Vanderbilt University working on securing military smartphones

  Soldiers in Afghanistan are experimenting with smartphones engineered to better protect operational data designed by scientists at Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS).

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  MILITARY
  GSL-designed and built INS Sumedha joins Indian Navy

  The maritime security of India got a significant boost recently with the induction of state-of-the-art new generation Naval offshore patrol vessel, INS ‘Sumedha’, indigenously designed and built by Goa Shipyard Limited.

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  AEROSPACE
  Airbus Defence and Space introduces the Orlik MPT trainer

  Airbus Defence and Space rolled out the PZL 130 Orlik MPT, a new version of the twinseat aircraft with glass cockpit. This solution is a development of the Orlik TC II Garmin already in service in the Polish Air Force.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Director General of Railway Protection Force

  Krishna Chaudhary, IPS, presently working as Director General, Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards, has been appointed to the post of Director General, Railway Protection Force, Railway Board...

• CORPORATE
  Astronics acquires EADS North America Test and Services division

  Astronics Corporation (ATRO), a leading provider of advanced technologies for the global aerospace and defence industries, announced that it completed on February 28, 2014...

• TECHNOLOGY
  Florida University research on reducing waste in military meals

  University of Florida (UF) Researcher Jeffrey Brecht is leading a team of scientists working to eliminate waste and streamline the process of distributing the US Army’s legendary Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MREs).

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  MILITARY
  BlackShark selected as heavy weight torpedo for Project 75

  WASS clarified that the Blackshark torpedo has been selected by the Ministry of Defence for the Scorpene submarine after rigorous selection process.

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  AEROSPACE
  Singapore selects Airbus A330 MRTT, firm order for six aircraft

  Airbus Defence and Space has been selected by Singapore to supply six A330 MRTT new generation air-to-air refuelling aircraft...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Accident at Vizag shipyard

  Accident at Vizag shipyard An accident occurred recently while Larsen & Toubro, an industrial partner, was undertaking preparatory activities of hydro pressure test of a tank inside a building at the Ship Building Centre, Visakhapatnam.

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  MILITARY
  Navantia gets a new contract in Australia

  The Royal Australian Navy has contracted an extension of the supply of the Integrated Platform Management System, with the target of incorporating an advanced training system on board: On Board Training System (OBTS).

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  AEROSPACE
  25,000 hours of Eurofighter in Air Force

  The Spanish Air Force’s fleet of Eurofighter EF-2000 aircraft has completed its first 25,000 flight hours during the month of February, to which three units equipped with this weapon system have contributed...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Pakistan formulates internal security policy

  Pakistan has formulated its first ever National Internal Security Policy (NISP) to protect national interests by addressing critical security issues as well as concerns of the nation.

• MILITARY
  Self-healing paint could halt rust on military vehicles

  A new additive could help military vehicles, including the Marine Corps variant of the joint light tactical vehicle (JLTV), heal like human skin and avoid costly maintenance as a result of corrosion, officials announced on March 18.

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  AEROSPACE
  Taiwan gets six more Apache choppers

  A shipment of six AH-64E Apache attack helicopters from the United States arrived in Taiwan in mid-March. Six helicopters arrived at the port of Kaohsiung on March 17.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  Kochi tops in cyber crimes

  The Kochi police in 2013 received almost 45 complaints of cyber crimes every month. But surprisingly, only about 10 per cent of them were registered as victims were mostly reluctant to lodge an FIR.

• MILITARY
  Indigenisation: WASS ahead of its competitors

  Since its entry into India in 1976, with the sale of LWT A244s, WASS has remained ahead of its competitors in indigenising its products.

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  AEROSPACE
  Sikorsky and Turkey sign Black Hawk helicopter agreements

  Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has signed agreements with the Turkish Government and key Turkish aerospace contractors...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  $500 billion to be spent on cyber security worldwide

  Enterprises worldwide are expected to spend nearly $500 billion this year to deal with problems related to malware and data breaches, a new study says.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  39 Squadron Reaper landmark

  Reaper has passed a new milestone, with 39 Squadron reaching 50,000 hours of flying in support of Operation Herrick.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Inmate's escape from Twin Towers

  A security lapse at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles that helped allow an inmate to escape earlier this week has been rectified.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  UK Army cleared to fly next-gen eye-in-the-sky

  Approval has been given for the British Army’s own pilots to begin live-flying the unarmed Watchkeeper from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Mystery of Malaysia Airlines

  The mystery of what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues to deepen, with claims of a past cockpit security breach by one of the pilots cropping up now and adding to the theories floating.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Mexico buys two Dominator UAVs

  Israeli manufacturer Aeronautics Defense Systems (ADS) has confirmed a report in the Spanish website Defensa.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Teenager scales IGI airport

  A 16-year-old boy recently scaled the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport boundary near Kapashera Crossing in the wee hours and took a half-hour jog along an active runway before he was spotted.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  US Army on tipping point of UAS capabilities
  By David Vergun

  We’re on the tipping point of unmanned aerial systems’ ability to deliver capability to the Soldier,” said Colonel Thomas von Eschenbach.

• AEROSPACE
  Raytheon awarded $655-million contract for Patriot

  Raytheon Company has received a $655-million contract for new-production fire units of the combat-proven Patriot Air and Missile Defense System for Kuwait.

• AEROSPACE
  Aero shipped the first rear fuselage for Embraer KC-390

  The biggest aerostructure ever made in the Czech Republic by Aero will be delivered to the Brazilian customer by one of the world’s largest cargo airplanes – almost seventy metres long AN-124 Ruslan.