Новости ВПК иностранных СМИ за 12.02.2019

ShareTweet During the 2018 International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS), which was held in Karachi, Pakistan last November, ...

Russia has more SSC-8 cruise missiles than expected so far, reports the German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAZ) on Sunday, citing an unnamed source in Western intelligence. NATO asserts that such weapons violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, ...

Austal USA is looking to deepen its ties with the Littoral Combat Ship program, pursuing multiple efforts to remain involved in maintenance and life cycle management for the ship program still about halfway through construction. ...

THE Indus Waters Treaty, signed by India and Pakistan in 1960, mandates the commissions of both countries to inspect sites and works on both sides of the Indus basin in a block of five years. Honouring this obligation, ...

There is growing emphasis in health care to try to address economic issues at home that can impact patients' health conditions.The firm's push into helping health firms with so-called social determinant services follows moves by Lyft and Uber to offer rides to the doctor. ...

Canaccord Genuity upgrades Tesla to buy from hold and raises its 12-month price target to $450 from $330.Canaccord's new 12-month price target represents a 47 percent gain from Tesla's closing price of $305.80 on Friday.Tesla is down 8 percent for the year. ...

Earlier this month, a tragic accident in Bangalore of a recently upgraded Mirage fighter jet - that was upgraded by HAL- took the life of two IAF (Indian air force) test pilots. ...

A March 6 hearing is set in Vancouver for Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of China tech giant Huawei, who was arrested there in December on fraud charges. The U.S. is seeking Meng's extradition, and Canada will weigh whether the charges against her merit fulfilling the request. ...

The U.S. military conducted more airstrikes in Afghanistan last year than in the three previous years combined, making 2018 the most kinetic year for airstrikes in the country in at least a decade.U.S. fighters, bombers, attack aircraft and drones released 7,362 weapons in 2018, ...

The Nigerian army inaugurated an Information and Communications Technology Centre in its 6 divisional headquarters in Port Harcourt. Maj.-Gen. Jamil Sarham, Commanding Officer Commanding of the 6th Division, disclosed this in a statement by the division's spokesman, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, on Sunday, ...

US Navy aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) arrived in Laem Chabang, Thailand, for what the navy said would be a brief port call on February 10. The aircraft carrier arrived in Thailand after concluding operations in the Persian Gulf, where it arrived early December 2018. ...

Apple's work with the VA is a big deal, and not just for veterans. Health industry experts say that the barriers are now coming down, which have prevented patients, doctors and start-up app developers from accessing health information. ...

A group of Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft were photographed at a Vietnam airport last week, marking their first landfall in the Southeast Asian nation. Freelance journalist Duan Dang tweeted out the photo of four Ospreys landing at the Danang International Airport on Feb. 5. Lt. ...

WASHINGTON — With the possibility of another government shutdown coming Friday, the Pentagon is bracing for a potential delay to its planned fiscal 2020 rollout and the associated long-term fallout. Compared to the government agencies that may once again go dark, ...

The Australian government has signed an official contract with France's Naval Group for the construction of 12 new submarines for the Royal Australian Navy. ...

Cryptocurrency and blockchain start-ups are winding down as the market mania fades, making their highly skilled engineers free agents.Facebook recently hired a group from the blockchain start-up Chainspace, ...

The Defense Department is weighing the option of cutting thousands of uniformed medical personnel, including psychologists and other mental-health professionals, even as military leaders grapple with rising suicide rates among troops. ...

It's one of the fundamental questions about China and its future place in the world: does the great civilization still view the world through the traditional lens of the Middle Kingdom or does the world face a new China, ...

A grenade is not the best way to stop a drone, but a grenade launcher might be. This week, the Army was granted a patent for a net-carrying grenade-sized weapon, designed to work in a standard 40mm launcher, that can ensnare a drone. Formally a 'scalable effects net warhead, ...

Two U.S. destroyers steamed near islands in the increasingly contested South China Sea Monday as part of a continuing effort to counter Beijing's claim over those waters, officials confirmed. ...

The U.S. military should refine how it identifies and measures civilian casualties during combat operations, to include greater collaboration with humanitarian groups, according to a recently released Pentagon report. The report, ...

The state enterprise Kharkiv Armored Plant (part of the Ukroboronprom state concern) upgraded more than a hundred T-64BM Bulat tanks of the 2017 model, which is enough to re-equip an entire tank brigade, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. 'The best combat capabilities, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Monday to withdraw several hundred National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico in defiance of the Trump administration's request for support from border states. ...

It is 'not possible' to outsource all maintenance work for heavy vehicles and machinery, said Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen in Parliament on Monday (Feb 11), as he emphasised the importance of national servicemen, including technicians, to national defence. As reported by The Strait Times, ...

For Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pineda, a 15-year veteran of the California Air National Guard, the military was a family calling. She followed her older sister and brother-in-law into the guard, where she now holds an administrative position at the elite 144th Fighter Wing in Fresno. ...

PARIS – France's Naval Group and Australia on Feb. 11 signed a $35 billion contract to build 12 Attack-class submarines for the Australian navy. ...

Although South Korea has wanted to export this tank, all these bells and whistles don't come cheap and the hefty price tag of $8.5 million per unit has made exporting tough. The South Korean army has peculiar needs. For one, just across the Demilitarized Zone, ...

The new rifle was a selective fire, fully automatic weapon capable of a maximum rate of fire of 750 rounds per minute. The weapon can be fired in single shot, three round burst, and fully automatic modes. The weapon had a 18.3-inch barrel length, was chambered in 5.56-millimeter, ...

The Guantanamo Bay prison is shopping for a new three-cell, handicapped accessible compound -- complete with a 115-foot dog run and guard house that can tap into the Pentagon's secret internet network. Why?'We must prepare for multiple contingencies, ...

Facebook is worth almost a half trillion dollars. It has more than 2 billion users who log in at least once a month. It has a famous CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has finally tasked the Indian Air Force for selection and training of 10 crew members for the country's first human spaceflight programme or Gaganyaan.Talking to TOI, Isro chairman K Sivan said, ...

The U.S. has needlessly wasted two years on totally unproductive trade negotiations with China.A good trade agreement with Europe, Mexico, Canada and Japan would be much more important, as those economies are America's key markets and they make up nearly two-thirds of U.S. exports. ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Monday to withdraw several hundred National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico in defiance of the Trump administration's request for support from border states. ...

BEIJING — Here's the latest look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves. ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy's deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Feb. 11, 2019, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, ...

The Jaguar ground attack deep penetration fighter aircraft will roar in the skies at the Indian Air Force's exercise Vayushakti 2019 on February 16. With over-wing missile pylons, multi-purpose nose radar, anti-shipping weapons, night sensors, photo reconnaissance, laser range finder, ...

A previously unnamed Turkish Navy test and evaluation ship was launched at the Istanbul Naval Shipyard on February 9, in a ceremony attended by the Turkish president and defense department officials. The launch ceremony was used to reveal that the future ship would be named TCG Ufufk, ...

To survive in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean in a fight with a near-peer rival, the Corps will need weapon systems to contend with aerial and cruise missile threats. ...

Jesse Leroy Brown set his sights on flying when he was just a youngster working in Mississippi's corn and cotton fields. Growing up as the son of a sharecropper, whenever he spotted an airplane overhead, young Jesse would declare that someday he was going to be a pilot. ...

The U.S. Army announced recently that a 173rd Airborne Brigade officer will receive the nation's second highest award for valor posthumously for his bravery against a March 27, 2007 enemy attack in Saret Koleh, Afghanistan.On March 1, Maj. ...

Morgan Stanley expects Rivian will be 'the next serious competition from a 'clean sheet' start-up.' Analyst Adam Jonas estimates that currently Tesla makes about 80 percent of the electric vehicles in the U.S.Rivian, a Detroit-area start-up, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Pentagon's top official made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with U.S. commanders and Afghan leaders amid a push for peace with the Taliban.Pat Shanahan, the recently installed acting secretary of defense, said he has no orders to reduce the U.S. ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have until Friday to reach an agreement on funding a host of federal agencies through the rest of fiscal 2019 — or trigger another government shutdown. The shutdown threat will loom over all congressional business this week, ...

Boeing has delivered its fifth KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the US Air Force, with its latest example the first to be transferred to Altus AFB in Oklahoma.BoeingThe heavily adapted 767 – registered 76027 – arrived at the site from Everett, Washington on 8 February, ...

Pakistan is likely to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout soon to stave off a balance of payment crisis and help shore up its economy, Finance Minister Asad Umar said on Monday, as talks between Islamabad and the fund continue.A day earlier, ...

The Royal Navy could possibly get a fleet of two new 'Littoral Strike Ships' for operations close to the shore, UK defense secretary Gavin Williamson announced during a speech at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies on February 11. ...

FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and National Guard leaders honored soldiers from the Upper Midwest who spent about a year serving in Afghanistan. ...

In line with the Executive Yuan's latest policy report on the country's state of military preparedness, the government is requesting budgetary approval from the Legislative Yuan for new military hardware, the Taiwan News reports. To bolster the defensive capabilities of the military, ...

There is widespread consensus that applications of AI appear to provide the framework for the most defining expected technological progress. The Navy is currently analyzing air frames, targeting systems, AI-enabled sensors, ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and the United States struck a new deal Sunday that increases Seoul's contribution for the cost of the American military presence on its soil, overcoming previous failed negotiations that caused worries about their decades-long alliance. ...

A Lockheed Martin-led industry team was selected for the final design of the Royal Canadian Navy's future frigate after surviving a legal challenge by a rival contender. ...

A former Marine helped recruit service members for a scheme to bilk the Department of Defense out of more than $65 million using tubes of scar cream that did nothing to treat scars, according to aВ  remarkable investigation В by the Nashville Tennessean. ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. is considering what cuts to U.S. force levels could support peace negotiations in Afghanistan while balancing risk there, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Sunday. Shanahan made the surprise visit, his first since becoming acting defense secretary, ...

The US Army is arming its Stryker vehicle with attack drones, lasers, up-gunned cannons and anti-aircraft missiles in anticipation of scheduled 2020 Stryker-unit deployments to Europe -- intended to fortify a broader and much-discussed strategy to counter Russian 'aggression' in the region. ...

As a fifth domain, so much of cyberspace can only be understood indirectly or as analogous to things we're more familiar with. As technological innovation increases, what seems 'normal' from one perspective can turn out to be a grave mistake from a different perspective For the military, ...

Navy officials have begun notifying 120 active-duty, full-time support and drilling reserve E-7 through E-9 sailors that they must retire by the end August. The decision to send these sailors home sprang from the 2019 Senior Enlisted Continuation Board that began meeting on Dec. 3 in Millington, ...

FACING OPPOSITION attack on the Rafale deal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit back on Sunday, saying that for the Congress, the defence sector was only about 'brokering deals and helping their own set of friends'.Addressing a rally in Tirupur, he said: 'From the seas to the skies, ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions received $14 million in recent contract awards to develop a new unmanned air vehicle, called Aethon, designed for tactical, as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, missions.The company disclosed little else about the new UAV, ...

The Indian Air Force's (IAF) light combat aircraft Tejas will fly high showcasing its multi-role capability at the Vayushakti 2019 exercise on 16 February. The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-seat, single-jet engine, ...

Prime Minister Khan in November last year laid the foundation stone for the corridor linking Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur – the final resting place of Sikh faith's founder Guru Nanak Dev – to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Gurdaspur district to facilitate visa-free movement of ...

T. Rowe Price owned 8.98 million Tesla shares by the end of last year, according to a filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission.The new, smaller stake represents 5.2 percent of the electric auto maker's common shares outstanding at the end of December.Previously, T. ...

'We usually deploy to Decimomannu three times a year, for firing campaigns lasting two weeks. During such deployments, we are also able to rotate the aircrews and, if necessary, the aircraft. In particular, the activity at the range is required to achieve the CR (Combat Ready) qualification. ...

This post has been updated to include a statement from US 7th fleet THE PENTAGON – Two U.S. guided-missile destroyers conducted a freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) past South China Sea land masses claimed by China but not recognized as islands by international law. Monday, ...

The Air Force has been pushing more resources out to its remotely piloted aircraft community as the need for unmanned drones and the overseas missions they execute grows. To help meet that growing demand, Creech Air Force Base has been split off from Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, ...

Sixty-seven years after the U.S. Air Force received its last B-52 from Boeing, the flying branch finally has firmed up plans to fit the heavy bomber with new engines. Air Force magazine in its January 2019 issue took a deep dive into the re-engining effort. 'If Air Force plans hold up, ...

A pair of Navy guided-missile destroyers have sailed within a dozen nautical miles of disputed islands China is believed to have militarized -- a move that has angered some in Beijing. ...

Samsung releases a video titled 'The Future Unfolds,' suggesting that it will finally make good on promises to sell a phone that can fold.Samsung will unveil its new phones on Feb. 20 in San Francisco.Other expected announcements include its new Galaxy S10 phones. Samsung is holding an event on Feb. ...

LONDON — When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about an Israeli company that makes smartphone hacking technology used by some governments to spy on their citizens. ...

Chinese ships participated in Pakistan's multinational naval exercise in a big way, demonstrating their long-term cooperative partnership in the maritime sector.Chinese media extensively reported Pakistan's naval drills held for AMAN 19, highlighting the significance of the event, ...

CAPITOL HILL: Threatened by hundreds of precision-guided munitions now in the hands of Russia and China, the Navy and Marine Corps continue to search for technologies and tactics that will allow them to operate close to the coastline without unsustainable losses. ...