Новости ВПК иностранных СМИ за 14.02.2019

The US Navy's future Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Cincinnati (LCS 20) concluded acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico on February 8, following a series of in-port and underway demonstrations for the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey. ...

New Delhi has called for expressions of interest related to the planned procurement of 111 aircraft via its Naval Utility Helicopter (NUH) requirement, leading up to a request for proposals (RFP) due for release late in the third quarter. ...

The Navy awarded Boeing a $43-million contract to build four Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs) that will become multi-mission for the service, according to a Wednesday Pentagon contract announcement. ...

If you recently pinned on E-4, be on the lookout for an email letting you know it's time to enroll in the Distributed Leader Course. As of Feb. 1, it's the first thing you'll have to complete on the road to making sergeant. ...

The Chilean Navy will likely acquire the remaining two Dutch Karel Dorman-class (M-frigates) frigates as they retire from the Royal Netherlands Navy's service, following the signing of a letter of intent (LoI) between the two sides. ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty were among 25 members appointed to Trump's American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Wednesday.The board will be co-chaired by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the president's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump. ...

SAN DIEGO — Navy leaders again pledged Wednesday that reforms in the surface fleet are taking hold, but that data proving this improvement will take years to play out. The remarks by senior officials here at the U.S. ...

Last year, the South China Morning Post reported that China's fifth-generation J-20 fighter may not be as stealthy as the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) claims.The Indian military seems to agree. ...

Airbus-Leonardo joint venture ATR appears to be in a comfortable position as the last remaining large Western manufacturer of regional turboprops, with sole rival Bombardier divesting its Q400 programme.

LAWRENCE, Mass. — A veterans' services director in Massachusetts is looking for volunteers to attend the funeral of a World War II veteran who has no surviving family. Lawrence Veterans' Service Director Jaime Melendez tells The Eagle-Tribune that James McCue died Feb. ...

The guided-missile cruiser Leyte Gulf sustained three cracks to the starboard quarter of its fantail in a collision with another Navy vessel this month during what officials characterize as a minor incident. The cracks were four to eight-inches long, and have already been repaired, U.S. ...

The U.S. Air Force shouldn't waste money on new F-15s when what it really needs is to add stealth fighters, one leading air-power advocate argued. F-15s are 'unable to survive against the threats of biggest concern in our national-defense strategy.' David Deptula, ...

The Comptroller and Auditor General has said that the NDA government's Rafale deal to acquire 36 fighter jets in a flyaway condition is 2.86% cheaper than the price offered to the UPA government in 2007 by Dassault Aviation.The CAG report on Capital Acquisition in the Indian Air Force (IAF), ...

Defence sales between India and the US are at an all-time high and bilateral strategic partnership continues to advance at an historic pace, a top Pentagon commander has said. Admiral Philips Davidson, ...

Was Glock treated unfairly?В  A newly released report just shed light on why Glock lost its protest against Sig Sauer, providing fresh insight into the U.S. Army's selection for the Modular Handgun System contract. According to the report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, ...

James Acton, an arms control expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argues that despite their speed, hypersonic weapons can be destroyed by some ballistic missile defense systems such as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. ...

Malaysia Airlines has formally launched its pilgrim-based Airbus A380 operation Amal, unveiling a new logo for the service which has already been carrying out flights for some four months.The country's economic affairs minister, Mohamed Azmin Ali, ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Tuesday wrapped up its sixth AMAN biennial multinational naval exercise, aiming to promote cooperation among regional and extra-regional navies to ensure security in the Indian Ocean. AMAN-19 was held Feb. ...

WASHINGTON — Gen. Joe Dunford, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has finished his new edition of the National Military strategy — but currently has no plans to roll out a public version of the traditionally unclassified document. ...

Amazon reported record profit in 2018, earning $10.1 billion in net income compared with just $3 billion the prior year. Considering the company hardly recorded any profit until 2016, this sudden cash influx represents a new era for Amazon. So what's changed? ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, will hold a one-day stand-down to address alcohol use among cadets, part of an effort to curb problem drinking, sexual assault and harassment on the campus. ...

The Navy's top civilian wants to beef up the service's brainpower. That's why a flurry of action memos and glossy pamphlets greeted Navy Secretary Richard Spencer's Tuesday announcement launching the 'Education for Seapower' campaign, ...

Moscow has touted the capabilities of its new Beriev A-100 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft as being far superior to domestic and international rivals. ...

Tesla could burn as much as $1 billion in cash in the first quarter, Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas says.'The biggest question for Tesla ... is this company finally at a point where it's self-financing, where it doesn't need external equity capital to fund its very ambitious plans?' he says. ...

When it comes to privacy, Facebook's founding president Sean Parker worries more about Amazon than Facebook, pointing to the retail giant's voice assistant devices called Alexa.'If you're having a conversation in front of an Alexa-enabled device, Amazon is not guaranteeing you any privacy, ...

The loss of a satellite link was the cause of the second MQ-1 Predator crash over the course of a week back in 2017, according to an accident investigation board report released Wednesday. The drone was operating out of Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, ...

Jim Mattis is gone after coming to loggerheads with the commander-in-chief, but his bottom-line legacy as defense secretary to boost 'lethality' is driving a revolution in how the military conducts the most elemental form of combat on the small-unit level. ...

SAN DIEGO — A military judge on Tuesday asked the Navy to address claims that allegations from a potential government witness were being leaked to the media in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with murder in the 2017 death of an Iraqi war prisoner.The judge, Capt. Aaron Rugh, ...

In 2010, the company — along with Cranfield University — tested the smaller Demon drone, which also used blown air for maneuverability. Demon was the result of a five-year, $8-million research initiative that BAE Systems launched in 2005. MAGMA represents a continuation of that work. ...

Investigators probing an Air Canada Boeing 777-300ER tail-strike at Hong Kong have disclosed that the landing was the pilot's first on the 777, outside of a simulator.The first officer, the flying pilot, ...

Equifax's data breach on Sept. 7, 2017, stunned markets and American consumers, but where the data of those 143 million people disappeared to has remained a mystery.CNBC talked to experts, intelligence officials, dark web data 'hunters' and Equifax to discover where they expect the data has gone, ...

Could artificial intelligence systems predict the next major natural disaster? It's one of the ways the Defense Department wants to leverage the technology in partnership with tech companies, according to a new report. ...

A Veterans Affairs Department official steered disabled veterans to questionable schools in exchange for bribes from school officials, according to the Justice Department. James King, the VA official in question, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to accepting about $160,000 in bribes. In return, ...

A new pilot program from the Department of Veterans Affairs aims to help student veterans enroll in non-traditional programs that teach high-tech skills.Dubbed the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) program, it was announced Feb. 13 on the GI Bill website. ...

On 4 February, The Hindustan Times reported that a study conducted by India's Foreign Affairs Ministry found that 'unacceptable conditions' of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) imposed on countries were leading to severe push back by India's neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, ...

Holding more cadets accountable for misconduct in the ranks is the only way the service academies will 'move the needle' on stopping a troubling sexual assault trend, top school officials testified Wednesday. ...

Fact: The P226 was Sig's breakout gun in the U.S. market and its most popular pistol. The P226 was actually developed for the U.S. Army's competition to replace the World War II–era M1911A1 handgun with a modern design. Although it lost to Beretta, ...

The Glock 26 trades magazine capacity for compactness. But it does have the ability to gain back that firepower at the expense of carry-ability if the user so wishes. The 'Baby Glock' G26 will also take the Glock 19's fifteen-round magazine, the Glock 17's seventeen-round magazine, ...

Whether the United States would ever consider exporting the bomber (which will likely fall under a variety of legal restriction associated with nuclear-delivery systems) is a different question entirely. With only a few notable exceptions, Israel can buy whatever it wants from the United States, ...

Vista is paying a similar multiple for Ellie Mae as it did for Mindbody and Apptio.Thoma Bravo, Vista and Hellman & Friedman have been actively pursuing software companies. Cloud software companies have been commanding hefty price tags, ...

Brazilian airframer Embraer delivered 90 commercial aircraft last year, in line with its expectation of 85-95.But a similar level of business aviation deliveries, 91 in total, fell below the manufacturer's predictions of 105-125 for the year. ...

German Navy F122 frigate FGS Augsburg will return to her Wilhelmshaven homeport on Friday, Februrary 15, concluding her final operational deployment. The frigate is one of only two ships in her class and is scheduled to retire this year after 30 years of service. ...

'The SOF guys are less risk averse than conventional ground forces, so they're more apt to push the limit,' said Bob Work, father of the AI-driven Third Offset Strategy. 'Their commanders also have embraced AI and autonomous ops.... ...

Cisco beat estimates on the top and bottom lines.During the quarter, Cisco announced the acquisition of Luxtera for $660 million and a partnership with Amazon Web Services. ...

A Marine special operator received the nation's third-highest valor award after his heroism in Iraq during the bloody fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State saved his comrades' lives. ...

At the heart of the controversy over offsets in the Rafale deal, the Dassault-Reliance facility in Nagpur has kick started production, with the delivery of major components for the Falcon 2000 LX executive jets that are currently being assembled in France. ...

The U.S. Army may be close to a breakthrough in lethality with its Next Generation Squad Weapon program, but what will make it truly deadly is the new sighting system that guides the 6.8mm round on target, ...

The year 2018 was an eventful year for the F-35 Lightning. The Pentagon's new stealth fighter was used in combat for the first time, first by the Israeli Air Force and then by U.S. Marine aviators on an airstrike in Afghanistan . ...

The question is not if the drones will swarm, but when. Drones are touted as labor saving devices, but few of the remotely controlled piloted vehicles in service presently can actually match that claim, since it still takes at least one pilot per drone. ...

In a matter of seconds, Triston Walsh went from being really mad at his mom to thinking she was the best mother in the world. Julie Walsh had told the Millstadt, Illinois, teenager in December 2018 that she had sold the 1990 Ford Bronco that had belonged to his father, Nick, ...

In 2016 U.S. president Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to grow the U.S. Navy from around 280 ships to at least 350. Forget about it. The U.S. fleet likely never will grow to 350 ships. At least not 350 traditional, manned ships. ...

General Motors could use a Rivian investment to make more profitable electric vehicles. Amazon could use the platform for delivery trucks. ...

BANGKOK — Thailand and the United States on Tuesday hosted the opening ceremony for the annual Cobra Gold military exercise, the biggest activity of its type in the Asia-Pacific region with 29 nations taking part as participants or observers. ...

TheВ RifВ missiles were built in two rows of ten missile silos each. Unlike other missile submarines, the silo field was in front of the sail, giving theВ AkulaВ class its unconventional appearance. ...

The space race that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union during the '50s and '60s did much more than put Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. The United State's achievements in space inspired important scientific advances, ...

ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS GERALD R. FORD – The crew of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) are slowly expanding the aircraft they can launch and recover from the next-generation aircraft carrier, Ford's air boss told USNI News last week. By the end of the year, ...

Artificial intelligence is code entrusted to reason through independent choices. The decisions themselves are the result of coded paths and inputs, feeding data into different parts of algorithms, weighting outcomes, ...

A new poll of military families living in base housing found that more than half of respondents said they had negative experiences living in privately managed housing, and some reported living in dangerous living conditions that included mold, lead paint, faulty wiring, ...

With the Russian border little more than an hour away, the desolate grey sky burst open with an explosion of fire and a plume of smoke. If the scene evoked the Cold War, it was intentional.U.S. ...

In a sensational story that seems torn from a Clive Cussler fiction novel, the private research vessel funded by late billionaire Paul Allen has located the wreckage of the historic aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of over three miles. ...

The National Interest's Dave MajumdarВ putВ the Air Force's skepticismВ more bluntly:В 'It's amazing this Boeing sales pitch is being swallowed hook, line, and sinker by the trade press . . . The Air Force will never buy this jet. ...

The US Department of Defense's Artificial Intelligence Strategy highlighted the technology's ability to improve flight safety and aircraft maintenance.Artificial intelligence (AI) software could enhance the situational awareness of military commanders as well as pilots, ...

Pakistan Army is strengthening its supply line with newly established ammunition dumps close to the International Border with India. ...

The U.S. Department of Defense on Feb. 12 released the summary of its strategy on artificial intelligence. The strategy, Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity, outlines how DOD will leverage AI into the future. ...

Together with operational specialists at the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA), Thales has developed the Multi Mission Radar (MMR) for artillery, 4D air surveillance, air defense, and security applications. Years of studies and testing led to the signing of a series contract on January 17th, ...

The U.S. Justice Department charged a former Air Force intelligence official Wednesday with spying for Iran, saying she exposed a fellow U.S. agent and helped the Revolutionary Guard target her former colleagues for cyber attacks.U.S. officials said Monica Witt, ...

Two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in a Jammu and Kashmir village in Badgam district during a cordon and search operation, police said.Incriminating material, ...

THE PENTAGON – The Navy is pushing a series of education reforms to better train enlisted sailors and officers to face the increasing military capability posed by near-peer competitors and to fight complex, high-end wars. Russia, ...

MOSCOW — The Russian parliament has approved a second draft of a bill to ban service members from carrying certain electronic devices and sharing information about their units, movements and activities with journalists or in posts on social media. ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian hackers are redoubling their efforts in the run-up to presidential elections in Ukraine, according to the head of Ukraine's cyber-police. ...

Both China and Russia, according to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, are developing military capabilities in space, from laser weapons to ground-based anti-satellite missiles.The agency acts as the Pentagon's top intelligence arm. ...

U.S. Navy leaders want the information they receive from sensors and traditional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tools to more seamlessly feed into the service's combat systems as a way to eventually improve how the service searches for targets. Vice Adm. Brian Brown, ...

A member of the Navy's aerial acrobatic team, the Blue Angels, has been suspended pending the findings in an ongoing investigation that kicked off in late January, according to Navy officials. Navy Lt. Michelle Tucker, spokeswoman for the Chief of Naval Air Training, ...

The US Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded BAE Systems a $114.5 million contract for the maintenance and modernization of guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) at its Norfolk shipyard. The value of the competitively awarded contract could reach $136.2 million if all options are exercised. ...

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers approved a measure to block all U.S. forces and equipment from involvement in the ongoing civil war in Yemen, in an effort to stop American forces from assisting Saudi Arabia in the hostilities there. ...

Only 11 percent of people were willing to share their health data with a tech company like Amazon or Facebook, according to a new survey from Rock Health.People are more trusting of the federal government, insurers, big pharma and especially, their doctor.Among tech companies, ...

Russian investigators are probing an accident during boarding of a Ural Airlines aircraft at Barnaul which involved the failure of a mobile airstair. ...

The new Pentagon artificial intelligence strategy serves as a roadmap for how the American military will embrace machine learning in future cyber operations, which could be a boon for companies who invest in the technology. Released Feb 12, ...

Faced with a depleting strength, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is in talks with Russia to buy 21 MiG-29 fighter aircraft that are lying with Moscow since the late 1980s. Top IAF sources told ThePrint that the Russians will upgrade the aircraft to the standard that India wants. ...

SAN DIEGO —The Navy's top SEAL is probing what went wrong with his service's premier special warfare teams and how he can fix them. Pointing to a series of high-profile scandals and ongoing war crimes trials, Naval Special Warfare commander Rear Adm. Collin Green told an audience at the U.S. ...