Новости ВПК иностранных СМИ за 21.02.2019

An Oracle lawsuit challenging the Department of Defense's $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract has been put on hold while the agency is given time to investigate possible conflicts of interest in the formation of the contract. U.S. ...

Heckler & Koch may be making and delivering thousands of M27 infantry automatic rifles to the Marine Corps, but that's not going to stop the company from taking a few jabs at jarheads.The U.S. branch of the German weapons maker is executing a contract, inked in April 2018, to deliver up to 15, ...

The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project of India has gone deep into the detail design phase now. Along with the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), ...

The U.S. Army recently awarded Raytheon Co. a $406 million contract to supply the service with aviation radios over the next five years.Raytheon will manufacture up to 5,000 ARC-231A radio systems that will be installed on the Army's existing helicopter platforms, according to a Feb. ...

In many ways, the battleship represented the greatest-ever concentration of naval power in a single vessel. Between World War I and World War II, the big, fast, thickly-armored and heavily-armed warships dominated the world's oceans.В And then, very quickly, ...

Semiconductor stocks are on a tear. The SMH semiconductor ETF and SOXX iShares semiconductor ETF have both rallied 18 percent so far this year, tracking for their best quarters since September 2016. The XSD S&P semiconductor ETF has done even better, racing more than 20 percent higher for 2019. ...

The admiral responsible for developing and maintaining the Navy's ships defended the new $13 billion aircraft carrier that has faced heat from politicians and government watchdogs after a series of technological problems plagued its development.Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, ...

Pakistan is interested in advancing its ties with Israel if there is an improvement in the political situation in the region, foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said.Qureshi's remarks assume significance as Pakistan does not recognise Israel and the two nations have no diplomatic ties. ...

Nearly 200 injured U.S. Marines, veterans and international wounded warrior athletes are set to converge on Camp Pendleton to compete in a slew of different sports during the ninth annual Marine Corps Trials Feb. 26 to March 9. ...

Latitude Investment Management's Freddie Lait says Tesla's market value warrants a takeover bid.A tech company like Apple is the strongest candidate to pitch a bid for the electric car maker, he argues.Apple has been working on an electric car project of its own called 'Titan. ...

Displacing twenty-six thousand tons, the Kirovs dwarfed previous Soviet surface ships. Indeed, the United States itself had not constructed surface warfare vessels of this size since World War II. Only aircraft carriers and large, flat-decked amphibs exceeded the Kirov's in size. In theВ 1970s, ...

The Indian space agency will fly two small defence satellites in July/August on its new rocket --now known as Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) - said a top official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). 'We are planning to fly two defence satellites, ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is rethinking how it will employ its emerging MQ-8C Fire Scout rotary-wing unmanned vehicles to help Littoral Combat Ships take on tougher targets in a new age of great power competition. Within the last year, ...

Leaving aside the recent hurricane damage, accidents have destroyed at least two front-line F-22s and two test planes and badly damaged several others. ...

India's Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) has detailed a number of improvements for the planned Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) Tejas Mk2 fighter.The Mk2 benefits from Indian Air Force experience with the Mk1, says an ADA official. A prototype of the new aircraft, ...

The Cold War has not returned, but the Russians have.В The challenge for the Trump Administration is less about whether the US cares about European defense; it is much more about a strategic shift of American attention to dealing with the Chinese and North Korean threats.

The first grenades dropped from drones were an improvised experiment. Like the haphazard scouts of the 1910s who first chucked bombs out of cockpits onto foes below, the quadcopter grenade bombers were hardly a standardized tool or mass-produced weapon. And like those early aeronaut grenadiers, ...

Tesla is experiencing the same kind of skepticism that Amazon faced in its early days, says major Tesla shareholder Cathie Wood.Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of the electric automaker, is going to prove the naysayers wrong, predicts the chief of ARK Invest. ...

BEIRUT — The United States delivered a shipment of laser-guided rockets to the Lebanese Air Force on the Feb. 13 – part of a military aid package to Lebanon valued at $16 million. The advanced precision kill weapon system, manufactured by BAE Systems, ...

The Pentagon's fringe-science Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has just released a video of its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance, or EXACTO, in action.The video depicts a target … and  another aim point a couple feet to the right. The EXACTO bullet arcs toward the second aim point. ...

The U.S. Navy is hard at work developing new underwater transports for its elite commandos. The SEALs expect the new craft—and improvements to large submarine 'motherships' that will carry them—to be ready by the end of the decade. ...

In yet another milestone on Tehran's path to becoming a self-sustaining regional power, Iranian state news announced the Iranian Navy has commissioned its first homemade submarine.The new Fateh-class vessel was unveiled by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani late last week, ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, ...

The Army's primary program office for electronic warfare and sensors is getting a new boss. In a Feb. 19 press release from the Department of Defense, the Pentagon announced Col. (Promotable) Robert Collins will talke the helm as the program executive officer for Intelligence, ...

It's up to each airman to make sure he or she is fit for duty and able to deploy at a moment's notice. But commanders will keep tabs on whether an airman has been identified as non-deployable and should be recommended for retirement or administrative separation, ...

In the world of multibillion dollar defense contracts, India stands out. Home to one of the biggest armed forces on the planet, the country has an uneasy co-existence with neighbors Pakistan and China. ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy and Marine Corps are continuing a series of exercises to understand what technologies and tactics the services need to rapidly develop to fight in high-end future conflicts. The goal of each Advanced Naval Technology Exercises, or ANTX, ...

NEW IBERIA, La. — The Coast Guard has rescued two people and a dog from a fishing trip in a Louisiana bay.The Coast Guard said in a news release the people ran into problems Monday in Vermillion Bay. The vessel had left on the fishing trip Sunday and had not returned around 8:45 a.m. Monday. ...

A Coast Guard lieutenant assigned to the service's headquarters in Washington, D.C., has been arrested on drug and gun possession charges, and is accused of plans to 'murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,' according to documents filed in Maryland District Court.Lt. ...

ABU DHABI--The United Arab Emirates Air Force will buy a new Challenger 650 business jet configured for a variety of missions including maritime surveillance, search and rescue, and medical evacuation, according a release sent to reporters at the IDEX exhibition. The aircraft, made by Bombardier, ...

If you are in the market for any size of military surplus vehicle, keep an eye on GovPlanet. The online auction house is about to start selling U.S. Navy and Marine Corps surplus M1161 ITV Growlers and seven-ton Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement trucks.Beginning in March, GovPlanet, ...

The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill earlier this week limiting the amount of money attorneys can charge military personnel when they are sued while deployed. Virginia Del. Joseph Lindsey, D-Norfolk, ...

A NATO cyber 'red team' decided to see if they could infiltrate their forces through social media accounts and learned it was far easier to get data, locations and to sway their troops' behavior than they thought it would be. ...

One of the joys of being a reporter covering the Navy is how often you find yourself not only witnessing history but also getting to know those who made it. Meeting Quartermaster 1st Class George Mendonsa, who passed away Feb. 16 at the age of 95, ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Each Navy community is updating its tactics and weapons with lethality and a potential high-end distributed fight in mind, several admirals said last week. The submarine community is overhauling its training courses to focus on high-end combat, ...

The F-21 is a unique fighter aircraft we are offering only to the Indian Air Force and is not going to be on offer for anyone else around the world, said Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Vivek Lall on Wednesday. Speaking to ANI here, ...

According to a new government report, there has been double the demand for surplus M1911 .45 caliber pistols released for civilian sales from the Army, and the same program received 100,000 more requests for surplus M1 Garand .30 caliber rifles. ...

Airbus Helicopters insists its offer for the US Navy's TH-XX trainer contest provides the 'lowest risk' of any bid, despite proposing a twin- rather than single-engined rotorcraft.The navy's Request for Proposals (RFP) is 'engine agnostic', ...

Airbus is optimistic to make its debut in the Indian defence market as India looks to replace Air Force's transport planes.The European aerospace corporation has been selling commercial planes but isn't present in defence. ...

Russian Helicopters has signed a series of agreements with Indian companies to help produce the Kamov Ka-226T in India as part of its deal to supply 200 examples to the Indian army, and will pitch the type for an Indian navy requirement.Under the Ka-226T deal, 60 examples will be produced in Russia, ...

After more than a decade and billions spent developing the consistently troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Air Force is eyeing a new variant of the F-15 — much to lawmakers' dismay. ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wouldn't want to have a society where there is 'a camera in everyone's living room,' seeming to momentarily forget about his company's Portal, which is a camera meant for video chatting in the home. ...

A Navy aircraft designed to keep U.S. leaders connected during a nuclear war was damaged while being towed out of a hangar at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma earlier this month, officials confirmed Wednesday. ...

Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has completed preliminary design work on a family of large helicopters that could replace the Indian army's Mil Mi-8 and Mi-17 rotorcraft, and potentially be used for naval applications.The Indian Multi-Role Helicopter would come in two distinct variants, the 12. ...

The posts seem unoffensive by Musk's standard, given his penchant for inflammatory tweets. But the incident raises questions about the effectiveness of an SEC fraud settlement and attempts to rein in Musk's online antics. ...

The Pentagon announced Feb. 19 that Army Brig. Gen. Paul Fredenburgh III will be the next deputy commander for Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Networks. JFHQ-DoDIN, a subordinate headquarters of U.S. Cyber Command, is responsible for the daily defense of DoD's networks, ...

WASHINGTON The massive and troubled $10 billion cloud contract the Pentagon has been pursuing has run into another snag. DoD revealed Tuesday it has obtained 'new information' pointing to potential of conflicts of interest in the competition, ...

US Navy fleet replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200) and Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose (F236) met up in the South China Sea on February 18 for a series of maritime security and logistics training. The drills involved Royal Marine commandos, Royal Navy sailors and Guadalupe crew members. ...

Elon Musk recently said he expects Tesla to have all the features it needs for a fully self-driving car by the end of the year, and to be capable of safely transporting a sleeping passenger within two years.Karl Brauer, executive publisher at Cox Automotive, ...

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she supports a lawsuit aimed at stopping President Donald Trump's emergency declaration to build a wall on the southern border. She also said she'd vote for a disapproval resolution in Congress. ...

Amazon is projected to claim 8.8 percent of the all digital ad spending in 2019.Google, by contrast, is expected to lose 1 percentage point of market share.Of the top five companies in digital advertising, only Amazon and Facebook are expected to grow market share in 2019. ...

If the JH-XX is truly under active development, then additional rumors and photos may eventually surface. Until then, the supersonic stealth-bomber's development status must come with an asterisk, even if that won't dissuade model-makers and defense writers alike from speculation. In January 2018, ...

WASHINGTON — The battle between military space juggernaut United Launch Alliance and its upstart rival SpaceX continues, with the two companies splitting a collection of launch contracts worth $739 million awarded by the Air Force on Tuesday. ULA, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, ...

Lawmakers passed a bill specifically banning any trade in Tomcat components to Iran or any other entity, and then-president George W. BushВ  signed the law В in 2008. On April 9, 1972, Iraq and the Soviet Union signed an historic agreement. ...

ABU DHABI — It is unconventional to for smartphones to be on display during a defense expo, but DarkMatter unveiled the Katim R01 'armored' mobile device at IDEX 2019 in Abu Dhabi. And it makes perfect sense: ...

Syrian air defense troops reportedly fired dozens of missiles in response, primarily medium-range missiles from Buk air defense systems (SA-17), and 57E6 missiles from short-range Pantsir-S1 (SA-22) systems. On January 21, Iranian, ...

Any response by Marine forces based out of Europe to a crisis in Africa would have to overcome the tyranny of distance and time, meaning help could be a long way off. Even with the speed and long-distance capabilities afforded by tilt-rotor aircraft like MV-22 Ospreys, ...

Lockheed Martin has just unveiled the new jet the giant U.S. defense company is offering India in response to the Indian Air Force's RFI (Request For Information) for 110 fighters, worth over 15B USD. ...

ABU DHABI – The days of dramatic pictures of ships launching sideways into the water at Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin are likely coming to an end, a representative from Fincantieri's international ship business told Defense News on Tuesday. ...

The Navy is making lethality enhancing 'modifications' to its next two new Ford-class aircraft carriers, to include weapons-oriented ship-adjustments intended to further increase overall aircraft carrier combat effectiveness. The initiatives, according to Navy statements, ...

The president of the Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yury Slyusar has announced his country's willingness to upgrade the A-50EI airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft currently operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), reports Sputnik. ...

The Royal Australian Navy's fleet of six Collins-class submarines will likely necessitate substantial upgrades to remain in service until the new SEA 1000 submarines start arriving, navy chief Vice Admiral Mike Noonan indicated at an Australian senate hearing. ...

Tesla's executive exodus continued on Wednesday with the departure of general counsel Dane Butswinkas.Here's a list of known departures since 2016. Following is a list of executive departures from Tesla since 2016: Feb. 20: General counsel Dane Butswinkas will be replaced by Jonathan Chang, ...

Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS Niels Juel got underway from Naval Base Korsd - r en route to the Mediterranean Sea port of Toulon where it will join French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle for almost two months of training and operations. ...

MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. — Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. ...

Huawei President Ren Zhengfei says the company would not help China spy on the U.S. even if required by law.U.S. intelligence officials have raised concerns about Huawei's capacity to set up backdoors in its devices to help China spy on Americans.Ren's daughter, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, ...

This could be a really big deal.В  The Army is working on a supergun with a 1,000-mile range that could potentially hit targets in the South China Sea from a gun pit on land, Army Secretary Mark Esper told reporters on Wednesday.(This first appeared last month. ...

Enemies can use social media to not only inexpensively find and target NATO forces but manipulate them, new research has found.Researchers with NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence used open-source data -- primarily social media -- to identify 150 soldiers, ...

Airbus Helicopters has pitched a design based on its high-speed X3 technology for a US Army programme to deliver a new armed scout rotorcraft in the mid-2020s.The move, revealed by chief executive Bruno Even, ...

Lockheed Martin has redesignated the F-16V Block 70 as the F-21 in its offering for India's fighter requirement.'The F-21 addresses the Indian air force's unique requirements, and integrates India into the world's largest fighter aircraft ecosystem with the world's pre-eminent defence company, ...

The bill that avoided a second government shutdown finally provided the $655 million for a badly needed new icebreaker for the Coast Guard and $20 million more for start of construction on a second one.'This is big, this is real, ...

Royal Australian Navy landing ship HMAS Choules started a month-long deployment to the Southwest Pacific where it will take part in maritime and land training activities with regional partners. Choules' deployment to Papua New Guinea, ...

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday finally agreed that the indigenously developed and built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas was combat ready, ...

The U.S. Army just awarded BAE Systems contract modifications worth up to $575 million for its Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle effort to replace the Vietnam War-era M113 armored personnel carrier.The two contract modifications mark the beginning of low-rate production for the highly mobile, ...

A report that Tesla may be starting a leasing program for the Model 3 could be a worrying sign for investors.The timing coincides with a reduction in federal tax credits for Tesla vehicles.Many competitors are on the horizon.Tesla already offers leases on other vehicles, ...

For years the AR-15 pistol had a rough time in the handgun and personal defense weapon markets. Reviews tended to be critical or even dismissive. Some even openly mocked the weapon for its supposed impracticality. The public wasn't very interested in it other than as a novelty gun. ...

The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus air tanker refuelled a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II for the first time over California.The tanker connected to the fighter aircraft with its refuelling boom on 22 January, marking the first time the Pegasus has refuelled a stealth aircraft, says the US Air Force. ...

The US Air Force started testing an upgraded version of the Boeing B-52 bomber's Conventional Rotary Launcher on 11 February.The new rotary launcher is designed to power up more munitions at a time, ...

The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is still the way forward in the Air Force's vision of how it will fight the wars of tomorrow, despite the negative press that has often surrounded the aircraft. The F-35, ...

Inactive frigates, destroyers and other mothballed vessels won't be making their way back to the fleet, Navy leaders have decided, as they look to add dozens of ships to the service's arsenal in the coming decades.Navy leaders have wrapped up a review of the service's entire list of inactive ships, ...

If the U.S. Air Force follows through on its ambitious plan to add 75 new squadrons, it either will have to buy a lot more new bombers, or hold on longer to older bombers. The service apparently is reluctant to confront this hard choice. ...

US defence firm Lockheed Martin on Wednesday unveiled the F-21, a multi-role fighter jet for India, which it claimed will be produced in India. The announcement comes in the backdrop of the firm vying for the multi-billion dollar order from India, ...

Lockheed Martin Canada has subcontracted Nova Scotia-based Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems for work on the integration of underwater systems on the Royal Canadian Navy's future surface combatants. Ultra, as the anti-submarine warfare lead, ...

WASHINGTON — Then-White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and other senior officials pushed the transfer of highly sensitive U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, despite objections from ethical and national security officials, ...

Most joint military exercises have seemingly arbitrary names with little to do with the actual training: think Foal Eagle or Juniper Falcon. Not so with the annual joint Thai-Marine Corps exercise Cobra Gold, ...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warned the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Wednesday that Russia will retaliate by fielding new weapons that will take just as little time to reach their targets. ...