Новости ВПК иностранных СМИ за 15.02.2019

Facebook maintains a list of individuals that its security guards must 'be on lookout' for that is comprised of users who've made threatening statements against the company on its social network as well as numerous former employees. ...

In the next six to 12 months, country after country is deciding what companies get to build new 5G networks. India and Italy remain open to a Huawei bid, at least for now; Britain, Canada, and Germany are on the fence; while France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand have said no.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is giving more power to surface ship commanders to shape the training of their crews via a new set of training rules, officials said Wednesday. The revised Surface Force Training and Readiness Manual, issued in November, ...

The Army special agent who led the investigation of a Green Beret charged with the murder of an alleged Afghan bomb-maker now faces charges of stolen valor. ...

NORFOLK — Officials at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in nearby Portsmouth lifted a lockdown shortly before 2 p.m. on Thursday, following what officials called a 'false alarm' about an active shooter. ...

Two members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team remain in critical condition Wednesday morning following a training exercise in Florida early Tuesday that left them injured, an Army spokesman said.A third member of the team remains in serious condition, said Sgt. 1st Class Robert Dodge, ...

Airbus expects to conclude contract revisions with A400M customers 'in the coming months', and says it 'completed significant de-risking' of the military transport programme during 2018.Speaking at the European group's annual results presentation in Toulouse, ...

Even though the procurement of 93,895 close-quarter-battle carbines (CQB) a deal worth $ 553.33 million been put on Fast Track Procurement (FTP), the final report of the Oversight Committee is awaited Despite efforts of the Indian Army to fast track the procurement of small arms, ...

In what Department of Veterans Affairs officials are calling the biggest change to its appeals process in decades, the department will launch a new system next week for veterans challenging their disability claims decisions.The new process gives veterans three options for contesting their claims, ...

Cisco reported better-than-expected results on Wednesday, lifting the stock 3 percent.The company's infrastructure business posted revenue that topped estimates.CEO Chuck Robbins said Cisco is taking on China's Huawei and winning. If Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins is worried about China's Huawei, ...

Indian Army's frontline infantry soldiers will reportedly be equipped with new assault rifles under a Rs 700-crore contract between the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the US firm Sig Sauer.MoD officials have told news agencies that the contract is for 72,400 assault rifles, ...

The defense and aerospace industry wants the Department of Defense to adopt the same set of cybersecurity standards their companies use to trim vulnerabilities throughout their supply chain, rather than piling on additional requirements. ...

Tempers flared over a backlog of security clearances during a Feb. 14 Senate hearing about vulnerabilities in the energy sector, with lawmakers raising concern that the issue was leading to poor cybersecurity. The exchange began when Sen. Martha McSally, R- Ariz., ...

Reacting to the worst terror attack since Uri, Arun Jaitley said the attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama district that killed at least 42 CRPF jawans was 'cowardice and (a) condemnable act of terrorists.''Attack on CRPF in Pulwama, J&K is a cowardice & condemnable act of terrorists. ...

Walmart is bringing tractor-trailers to the parking lots of some of its stores to let customers experience DreamWorks Animation's 'How to Train Your Dragon' via virtual reality.This marks the official launch of Spatial&, ...

Most of the system that allows the president to launch nuclear weapons and to know what the enemy is doing with theirs is ancient. No one yet agrees what it must replaced with. And no one knows how much it will cost, ...

Despite the bitter Doklam standoff with India, China is still quietly building up its military presence in Tibet and, according to the latest intelligence report, it has upgraded its military camp under its western command in the region.According to reports, ...

All thanks to a new radar system.В  Russia's future sixth-generation fighter well as its next generation unmanned aircraft could be equipped with what is described as a 'radio-photonic radar.' If the Russians succeed in developing such systems, ...

'If satellites got lost in any conflict in the future, God forbid, we're about the only company in the world that could replace them in 24 hours,' Branson said in an interview with CNBC's Morgan Brennan.Branson met with Air Force leadership two weeks ago to discuss the capabilities of Virgin Orbit, ...

Base security forces on Thursday morning fatally shot a man who charged at them after he crashed a stolen vehicle into a north gate barrier at Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi, officials told Navy Times. ...

Iran is currently incapable of sinking a U.S. Navy carrier, but that is not an advantage the Pentagon can count on enjoying forever. The United States and Iran have been on bad terms—occasionally spilling into open hostility—since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. ...

A year after the launch of the Defense Department's Close Combat Lethality Task Force (CCLTF), Army and Marine infantry may be moving closer to being transformed into an elite force, much like the 75th Ranger Regiment.Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, a key adviser to the CCLTF, told Military. ...

A European expert in supporting land armored vehicles, Arquus has set up a new web portal dedicated to customer support. Known as Trust Online, this new portal has beenВ designed to provide close assistance for customers and meet their needs in terms of support. ...

'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.... ...

The US Navy has awarded Boeing a $43 million contract for the fabrication, test, and delivery of four Orca extra large unmanned undersea vehicles (XLUUVs) and associated support elements. Boeing's proposal for the Orca XLUUV was based on its 15-meter Echo Voyager unmanned undersea vehicle. ...

New York City will lose the bulk of the 25,000 jobs that were initially promised by Amazon's HQ2, the company's spokesperson confirmed.Instead, most of those jobs will be spread across 17 of Amazon's corporate offices and tech hubs in North America, including Boston, Vancouver and Denver. ...

The Navy's director of military personnel plans and policy, Rear Adm. John Nowell, Jr., has been nominated to become the next chief of naval personnel (N1), USNI News has learned. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Nowell will be promoted to vice admiral and replace the outgoingВ CNP Vice. Adm. ...

This article by Jared KellerВ originally appeared onВ Task & Purpose, a digital news and culture publication dedicated to military and veterans issues.Bill Cosby is apparently having no trouble adjusting to his life in prison thanks to his brief service in the U.S. Navy. ...

The guided-missile cruiser that was involved in a minor collision with a resupply ship on Feb. 5 has left port after repairsВ and will shortly resume training with the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, USNI News has learned. USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) departed Naval Station Mayport, Fla. ...

No more SSGNs?В  How best could the United States metaphorically 'kick down' the anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) 'door' of a near-peer adversary during a conflict? This has been an idee fixe for American defense planners during recent years, ...

The Islamic State's physical territory has dwindled to a ramshackle camp only a few square kilometers wide in eastern Syria's Deir Ez Zor province. But as the so-called caliphate's end nears, questions remain about what will become of the roughly 1,000 ISIS fighters who have been detained by U.S. ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump will sign Congress' border security compromise, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday. ...

The floppy-magnets worked exactly as intended, but they were simply too messy to train with to be practical on a large scale. It seems NATO deployed them only a few times. At the height of the Cold War, ...

The Air National Guard may be looking to get rid of at least half its RC-26 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fleet in coming years, and one guardsman -- who also happens to be a U.S. congressman -- isn't happy about it. ...

SAN DIEGO --В  A jury on Wednesday found a Navy petty officer guilty of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in a 2016 crash off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that killed four people and injured seven others in Chicano Park.The San Diego Superior Court jury did not find gross negligence, ...

A new US intelligence report portraying Moscow and Beijing as trying to bring warfare into the heavens has drawn the ire of China, which insists that space is not Washington's 'private property.''I want to make it clear that outer space belongs to all mankind. ...

NASA is focused on utilizing partnerships with companies like SpaceX and Boeing, rather than contracting and operating the rockets and spacecraft itself.Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNBC it is not certain SpaceX will launch humans before Boeing for the Commercial Crew program. ...

BRUSSELS — NATO defense ministers on Thursday weighed the future of the alliance's operation in Afghanistan and debated how best to use its military presence to support political talks aimed at ending the conflict.Frustrated with America's longest war, U.S. ...

The U.S. Army will soon field more pocket-sized drones to its squads and platoons under a recent $39.6 million contract award to FLIR Systems Inc. to support small-unit reconnaissance efforts.The FLIR Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System, or PRS, ...

Former Tech. Sgt. Monica Elfriede Witt, the one-time Air Force counterintelligence specialist who was charged with espionage Wednesday, earned an Air Medal for her contributions during the early days of the Iraq War. In March 2003, then-Staff Sgt. ...

TAMPA -- A Largo man used his SUV to ram a gate onto MacDill Air Force Base on Wednesday, police said, resulting in traffic being rerouted from the S Dale Mabry Highway entrance for several hours.The incident took place shortly before 9 a.m. Timothy Paul Yarbrough, 35, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, rolling across the rocky red soil, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the planet. ...

IF voted to power, the Congress will not scrap the Rafale fighter jet deal with France, and rather buy more by making it a better deal, said senior party leader P Chidambaram. He said the choice of offset partner was 'indeed an issue', ...

CAIRO — Libya's U.N.-backed government says that joint Libyan and U.S. forces have bombed alleged al-Qaida militants in a southern desert town. Tripoli-based government spokesman Mohammed al-Salak said late Wednesday the bombing took place in the town of Ubari, about 950 kilometers, or 590 miles, ...

The Navy's primary IT organization is renaming its subordinate centers to better reflect the reality of information warfare Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Commander Rear Adm. Christian Becker told an audience Feb. ...

China may be in the midst of one of the dumbest military moves of the 21st century if its own rhetoric on naval warfare is to be trusted.China has been touting its ability to sink America's carriers to negate the US's military edge, ...

The fine is related to Cambridge Analytica's improperly accessing the data of 87 million Facebook users.If agreed upon, the fine would be the largest ever imposed by the FTC against a tech company. ...

The U.S. Navy has confirmed that a member of the Blue Angels flight demonstration team has been suspended pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation that began in late January 2019. This announcement continues a disastrous week for U.S. military aviation demo teams. The news about the U.S. ...

The secretary of the Air Force now oversees unified networks that U.S. forces and international partners will use to communicate on and share data on the battlefield. ...

At 8:18 the exhaust heat triggered the fifteen-pound warhead of one of the Zuni rockets. The resulting blast ruptured the Phantom's fuel tank, which poured burning JP-5 jet fuel onto the deck, catching three more Phantoms on fire. ...

A horrifying video shared by a Free Balochistan Movement activist Beebagr Baloch on Twitter shows the Pakistani army brutally killing an unarmed Baloch man, after dragging him out of his house in Balochistan. In the chilling video, ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -- The Air Force for the first time has approved an award for airmen serving with the heavy airlift wing at Papa Air Base in Hungary.The Heavy Airlift Wing Service Medal will be based on exceptional performance or service and is retroactive to the fall of 2008, ...

Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of U.S. Cyber Command, used prepared testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 14 to describe an organization that has been more active in recent months and one that is conducting cyber operations in multiple places throughout the world. ...

The Republic of Singapore Navy's firstВ Type 218SG submarine is scheduled to be launched later this month in Germany, in a ceremony attended by Singapore's defense ministerВ Ng Eng Hen. The defense minister will attendВ the 55th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich on February 16, ...

The US Air Force's acquisition costs are projected to reach $104 billion by 2033, driven primarily by the purchase of several new aircraft and weapons.That projection comes from a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, released 13 February, ...

Hundreds of veterans are filing lawsuits against a government contractor that manufactured and sold defective combat earplugs to the military. The earplugs didn't maintain a tight seal and allowed dangerously loud sounds to slip through without the wearer knowing. ...

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office intends to solicit and negotiate multiple contracts to buy 485 stealth fighters from Lockheed Martin.The negotiations are for aircraft to be built as part of production Lots 15, 16 and 17, ...

'We've spent a lot of time over the past years playing defense,' Rear Adm. Ronald Boxall, director of surface warfare, said at the West 2019 conference here. 'The best defense is a good offense, and the idea that we will go after the threat -- at range -- is something that we have to be able to do.'

In the face of reports of retaliation against military families for coming forward about their concerns about living conditions in privatized housing, senators strongly warned that they will not tolerate such reprisals. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Feb. ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signaled on Thursday he will declare a national immigration emergency in coming days to get around congressional opposition to his controversial border wall project, possibly shifting billions in military funds to pay for the construction. ...

The Narendra Modi-led NDA government has cleared a proposal to produce at least 7.47 lakh Kalashnikov assault rifles by the Ordnance Factory Board and a Russian Joint venture firm for the Indian Army.The plant for the same will be set up near Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, said reports. ...

It's getting easier for Chinese submarines to operate in the shallow water of the Taiwan Strait, and harder for American submarines to deploy in sufficient numbers to hunt down the Chinese boats. That could pose a serious problem in the event of war between China and Taiwan. As of early 2019, ...

There is a growing mental health crisis among members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces community that is not being adequately addressed. On Feb. 2, 2019, CNN reported that suicides among those currently serving with U.S. Special Operations Command tripled last year. ...

(Ft. Worth, Texas) -- Filled with stacks of fuselage panels, engine components and a wide assortment of pipes, electronics and avionics, the spralling F-35 construction facility in Ft. Worth, Texas, resembles a small city filled with engineers, mechanics, ...

Indian Air Force, which is facing an acute shortage of combat aircraft, is in advance talks with Russia for an urgent procurement of MiG 29 fighters that can be delivered at a relatively short notice. ...

The F-35 is a case of massive over ambition to develop one base airframe that can be adapted to replace half-dozen specialized jets. The result is an expensive jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none. The United States has built many great fighters over the years. The P-51 Mustang, the F4U Corsair, ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Navy needs to 'radically change' the way it does business if it wants to survive in an era of military competition with Russia and China, the service's number-two civilian said on Wednesday. ...

China is fielding a wide range of highly-capable weapon systems that could threaten U.S. interests in the Pacific region. That was the stark warning from U.S. Navy admiral Philip Davidson, the commander ofВ  U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in his testimony before the U.S. ...

Ships from NATO's Standing Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) are currently underway in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, taking part in what the NATO Maritime Command describes as advanced Force Integration Training (FIT). The drills are being conducted as part of the group's patrols in the region. ...

With China's flagship fifth-generation fighter fresh off the production line, is Beijing already looking beyond the J-20? A recent Global Times report sheds light on the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) research and development strategy over the coming decades. ...

This could be real... State-run Chinese media is claiming that the People's Liberation Army has been able to track the U.S. Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighters over the East China Sea. ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — In a nod to the rising role of technology and growing importance of information warfare in the battlespace, the Navy will rename Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command's (SPAWAR) Systems Centers this month, officials announced Wednesday. ...