Новости ВПК иностранных СМИ за 22.02.2019

Panda Express and Muscle Maker Grill are among the new restaurants coming to Air Force and Army bases this year, officials with the Army and Air Force Exchange (AAFES) told Military.com.AAFES manages restaurant contracts on Army and Air Force bases, ...

Apple and Goldman Sachs plan to begin rolling out a joint credit card this spring, according to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.The card will use Mastercard's network, the WSJ reported.'This is clearly not a gamechanger,' Credit Suisse said in a note to investors on Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON — The remains of more American soldiers killed decades ago in the Korean War are likely to be identified shortly from 55 boxes provided last summer by the North Korean army, the lead scientist working on the identifications said Wednesday.John Byrd, ...

The F-35I will also be certified to carry major Israeli-developed weapons systems in its internal weapons bay, notably including the Python-5 short-range heat-seeking air-to-air missile, and the Spice family of glide bombs, which combine electro-optical, ...

The Corps proved, in a fall 2018 demonstration in Arizona, that an F-35 stealth fighter can pass targeting data to a rocket battery, improving its accuracy. A Marine F-35B detected a metal container on the ground and passed the GPS coordinates via radio data-link to the HIMARS crew. The U.S. ...

Jeff Bezos explained at an event Wednesday how his space company, Blue Origin, is learning from test flights of rocket New Shepard, according to Space News.He reportedly said that the lessons from the company's New Shepard rocket are informing its development of the massive New Glenn rocket. ...

SoftBank's Vision Fund is leading a $1 billion round in Flexport, a shipping and logistics company.The company is reportedly valued around $3 billion. SoftBank's Vision Fund just made one of its biggest start-ups investments yet, ...

SAN DIEGO: If the Navy ever hopes to reach its goal of a 355-ship fleet, it won't be by simply building new hulls and launching them. Instead, ...

A Coast Guard officer accused of compiling a target list of Democratic presidential candidates and media personalities amid threats of mass violence will remain behind bars while his case moves forward, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday.Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested Feb. ...

Aerospace major Boeing Co will deliver the first of 22 AH-64E Apache twin-turboshaft attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force (IAF), a senior Boeing official said on Thursday.'We are on plan to deliver the first of 22 Apache starting July. ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Technology and weapons upgrades to the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor will give Marines a better edge in the networked battlespace, a combat pilot said last week. 'The Osprey's mission revolves around one thing… the Marine on the ground. The purpose of the Osprey is to deliver troops, ...

VICENZA, Italy -- Clipboard-wielding military officers will be sweeping through family housing complexes throughout Europe in the next month asking residents about mold, rats, repairs and any other possible problems. ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk frequently touts the company's refund and return policy when encouraging people to buy his company's electric vehicles.Today, some Tesla customers say the company left them stressed and stranded, waiting months to be paid back for returned cars or canceled reservations. ...

The Army has briefed industry on its upcoming electronic warfare program and is now asking for feedback. ...

Correction: The original fiscal 2017 and 2018 budget numbers in this story were erroneous and have since been corrected. WASHINGTON — Ahead of the White House's fiscal 2020 budget submission, expected next month, there's been a solid push for diplomacy and development spending, and it's coming from, ...

Rascoff, also a co-founder, served as CEO for nearly a decade. He recently oversaw a tumultuous transition for Zillow as the home buying platform moved into mortgage lending and buying and selling homes.Zillow has revealed headwinds in its new business segment in recent months. ...

The political pressure that sunk Amazon's New York City deal was borne out of a lack of understanding of the benefits, argues billionaire William Rudin.About 65 percent of the Amazon tax incentives are available to any company looking to bring operations to the city's outer boroughs, he says. ...

Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry summoned the Pakistani ambassador on Wednesday over his remarks that Afghan peace talks could be affected if India resorted to violence after last week's attack on Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir. ...

WASHINGTON — Raytheon will participate in a missile defense radar 'sense-off' to test designs that could be included in the U.S. Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense system under development. The Army announced plans for the sense-off in October, ...

Lockheed Martin in mid-February 2019 offered to sell India a new fighter the company calls the 'F-21.' Only it doesn't look like a new fighter at all. The F-21 looks like an F-16. In fact, the F-21 is an F-16 that Lockheed has upgraded with new cockpit displays, conformal fuel tanks, ...

A new Reuters analysis found that Google lags far behind its peers, Amazon and Microsoft, in the cloud business.Out of 311 businesses that disclosed their cloud providers, the report found just 35 companies named Google as its vendor, compared to 227 that named Amazon Web Services. ...

Tesla shares fall nearly 2 percent after a new report, based in part on the reviews of thousands of vehicle owners, raises questions about the reliability of Tesla's Model 3.Consumer Reports says it will no longer recommend the Model 3 due to the reliability issues.A Tesla spokesperson said, ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan hopes to sell its JF-17 Thunder aircraft to Malaysia, now that the cash-strapped country is officially looking for such a fighter. Malaysia was eyeing larger fighters like the Rafale and Typhoon, but that plan was shelved due to budgetary woes, ...

Pakistan on Thursday banned the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamat-ud-Dawa and its charity wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, amid intense global pressure to rein in the militant groups following the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF soldiers. ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Federal money for submarine manufacturing in Philadelphia, airfield improvements in Pittsburgh and other military construction projects in Pennsylvania could be at risk of being diverted by the Trump administration to help finance a U.S.-Mexico border wall, U.S. Sen. ...

Ships from the US Navy's Essex amphibious ready group (ARG) assembled around Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2)В paid a two-day visit to Pearl Harbor on February 18. Transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23), amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47), ...

India's Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) plans to adapt the Airbus Defence & Space C295 tactical transport for special missions should a deal to obtain the type be finalized.The company displayed two models of the C295 in its pavilion. ...

Amazon's senior health leader, Taha Kass-Hout, talks up the company's advances in artificial intelligence.Kass-Hout points to Amazon's Comprehend Medical as an example of AI moving beyond hype to reality. Amazon doesn't talk much about its plans in health care. ...

The Finnish defense ministry on February 21 announced it is buying Raytheon's Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) systems for itsВ Pohjanmaa-class corvettes of the Squadron 2020 project. The surface-to-air missile system (ITO20) will be installed on all four ships in the class. ...

FS Bretagne, the French Navy's fifth FREMM frigate, has officially entered service after completing its maiden deployment. The French Navy admits ships into active service only after they complete their first operational tasking. ...

AsВ enemy fighters closed in on a US Air Force 4th Generation fighter aircraft, blinding the jet with electronic warfare attacks, an experienced pilot faced unseen life-threatening attackers closing in -- during an air-combat Red Flag exercise closely replicating actual warfare scenarios.Yet, ...

Twitter on Tuesday suspended the personal account of Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal for allegedly providing his users details about the Indian atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir.According to the Pakistan media, ...

As the Army steps up inspections of base housing and holds town halls for soldiers and families living in more than 87,000 homes on post, the service's senior leaders are making clear that the private management companies responsible for the housing must fix long-standing problems, ...

In an effort to boost falling sales in the region, Apple introduced two-year financing to Alipay users who buy their products.Apple saw a $5 billion drop in revenue in China during Q1 2019 compared with the previous year. ...

The makers of the Corps' new M27 automatic rifle, Heckler & Koch, took a playful jab at the Corps Tuesday, calling the Marines 'crayon eaters' in a post on its Facebook page. Heckler & Koch posted photos of a new batch of its M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles, or IARs, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India is on the way to becoming a USD 5 trillion economy soon and hoped that the country would be among world's top three economies in the next 15 years. Addressing the Indian diaspora in Seoul, ...

Navy leaders want to prevent a repeat of the problems that left the service's latest -- and most expensive -- aircraft carrier without any working weapons elevators.The Navy will build a new land-based test site for its advanced weapons elevators, Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, ...

Dropbox's stock moved lower after the company gave guidance that was lower than expected in some areas. The company beat estimates on the top and bottom lines for the fourth quarter. ...

America depends on airpower. Airpower underpins the military options leaders use to enhance deterrence and if deterrence fails, to fight and win with minimum casualties.A key element of America's airpower is the fighter force. Historically, ...

BOSTON — The inside of a tank was Clarence Smoyer's home, and the crew was his family. In that sense, the 95-year-old veteran returned home Wednesday for the first time since World War II. One of the last surviving WWII tank gunners, ...

Gun maker Heckler & Koch made a pair of classic Marine Corps jokes in a Facebook post about a shipment of M27 rifles headed to some Devil Dogs in Georgia. We wrote about the H&K's 'Marine proof' rifles for 'crayon eaters' on our Kit Up! blog. ...

Here is the latest... The US Navy is making an aggressive push toward 'offensive' mine warfare designed to attack and destroy enemy ships and submarines with undersea explosives - all while preparing a complex suite of interwoven mine countermeasure technologies. ...

A junior sailor died late last month in a Virginia Beach motorcycle accident, according to Navy and police officials. Fire Controlman Seaman Isaiah Rashon Johnson, 19, was riding a motorcycle southbound on Oceana Boulevard at about 5 p.m. on Jan. ...

Russia's MiG-29 first flew in 1977. Forty-two years later it's one of the most numerous warplanes in the world. As of 2018, around 820 MiG-29s and variants were in service, accounting for six percent of all the world's military aircraft. But as far back as 2001, ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marine Corps has put the Amphibious Combat Vehicle through its paces in the eight months since the service selected BAE Systems to build the new wheeled vehicles, using the original 16 ACVs to conduct high surf testing and cold weather/cold water testing around the country. ...

Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves decrease $163 million to $8.04-bn in the week ending Feb 15, compared to $8.2 bn in the previous week, central bank said on Thursday.Foreign exchange eserves fell by $163 million due to external debt servicing and other official payments, central bank said. ...

DoorDash has raised $400 million in a round led by Temasek Holdings and Dragoneer Investment Group, at a valuation of $7.1 billion. In August 2018, it was valued at $4 billion.The company faces fierce competiton from GrubHub, as well as IPO candidates Postmates and Uber. ...

The Royal Navy's third Tide-class tanker RFA Tidesurge entered service in a ceremony on February 20. The 39,000-tonne fleet replenishment tanker is the latest of four new Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships. 'Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tidesurge is the third of our four new fleet replenishment tankers, ...

Sig Sauer made a series of design tweaks to the Army Modular Handgun System last year that have improved the new pistol's reliability when firing 9mm ball ammunition, according to the newest annual report from the Pentagon's weapon's tester. ...

JERUSALEM — UVision, a maker of loitering munitions, is seeking to expand its business in the U.S. with the launch of UVision USA, a fully owned subsidiary of UVision Air in Israel. The company has developed a family of lethal loitering munitions, including the Hero-30, the man-packable, ...

The Siberian husky, named Balto after a determined dog of the early 20th century, ran amok in the Theranos offices and caused concern it would contaminate medical samples, according to Vanity Fair.The anecdote, while quirky and comical at surface level, ...

BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. -- The wife of an Army sergeant killed in December admitted that she planned his killing together with another man, communicating on Snapchat in an attempt to hide their communications, according to statements she made to police.Kemia Hassel, 22, ...

Apple needs to make a big push into content – and in doing so, it should make a significant acquisition, Wedbush Securities' Dan Ives says.'You need to monetize, you need fuel in the tank and we believe it's content. That's why be we believe this is the year they finally do a big M&A,' he says. ...

The commanding officer of one of the Navy's coastal riverine squadrons has been fired, service officials announced Thursday.Cmdr. Randolph Chestang, Coastal Riverine Squadron 3's former commanding officer, was relieved of duty Tuesday 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, ...

An Israeli spacecraft powered by SpaceX rockets will be launched on Thursday evening.Powered by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, the launch is the first ever privately-funded moon mission.At $100 million, it is also the lowest-cost craft to be deployed to the moon. ...

Seeking to boost tactical capabilities of the Indian armed forces, HAL has awarded French aerospace and defence company Thales a contract to supply 135 2.75-inch (70-mm) rocket launchers. Thales's fully certified, field-proven, ...

Turkey has decided to join the aircraft carrier club. Within two years, the Turkish Navy will accept the delivery of TCG Anadolu, the largest and most formidable warship to join the fleet in over one hundred years. ...

A week after 40 CRPF jawans were killed in a suicide bombing in Pulwama, the government on Thursday decided that all the personnel of central paramilitary forces can take commercial flights to either join the duty or to go on leave free of cost. ...

Boeing has promoted its industrial capabilities in India, as it eyes potential deals to sell the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the nation's air force and navy.Speaking at the Aero India show near Bengaluru on 21 February, ...

Engine maker MTU Aero Engines has not ruled out the possibility that the planned development of a future combat air system (FCAS) between France, Germany and Spain, in which it is involved, could ultimately be combined with the UK's parallel Tempest programme to deliver a new pan-European fighter. ...

Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?

MELBOURNE, Australia — Information from government documents about a delivery of German Leopard 2 tanks to Singapore in 2017 suggest the city-state bought a new batch of tanks for its Army. ...

The series of tweets rang as odd because 6G technology doesn't exist.The tweets come as the Trump administration resumes crucial trade talks with Chinese negotiators ahead of a March 1 deadline to reach a deal. ...

It is instantly recognizable. The vaunted status of meme divinity is seldom achieved, but like the Crying Jordan, the 'One does not simply' or a handful of other internet offerings that have proliferated ad nauseam across the social media landscape, ...

The young men waited their turn in the queue beneath the gaze of verdant hills still covered in snow. Six days after the terrorist attack in Pulwama, over 3,000 youth have showed up for an Army recruitment drive in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla's district. There are only 111 vacancies. ...

Two Georgia-based soldiers have pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder in the case of the shooting death of a Fort Stewart noncommissioned officer who was gunned down outside his father's home on New Year's Eve. A police officer in St. Joseph Township, Michigan, ...

GE Marine on February 20 announced it has been selected to deliver gas turbine auxiliary equipment for the LM2500 engines that will power the Indian Navy's new P17A frigates. ...

The Air Force Research Lab developed a chemical light stick, or chemlight, replacement and gave the patent to a veteran-owned company for manufacturing and distribution, the service announced in a video this week. U.S. forces use chemlights for a wide range of activities, ...

The Pentagon has asked Department of Homeland Security to identify locations where border wall construction would improve the 'effectiveness' of military troops deployed there, a key justification required to redirect military construction spending that would otherwise go to local base projects. ...

The U.S. government is moving forward on a review of water contamination at military bases, a study that may one day help answer a heartbreaking question: Did exposure to DoD chemicals give troops or their family members cancer? The study, ...

There is no single moment more loaded with symbolism for the drone age than the March 2017 news that a U.S. ally used a Patriot missile to shoot down a quadcopter. The venerable surface-to-air missile, which has a unit price of around $2 million to $3 million, ...

The head of the San Diego-based Coastal Riverine Squadron 3 was relieved of command Tuesday, Navy officials said Thursday. Few details were available this week regarding Cmdr. Randolph Chestang's firing, which came a little more than a year after he took command. ...

Stocky, but agile. It's one way to describe Lockheed Martin Corp.'s latest concept for a new F-16 Fighting Falcon variant for the Indian Air Force.In a pitch to the country Wednesday, ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Artificial intelligence could be used not only for faster decision-making on the battlefield but also for faster training as the Navy inserts more weapons and tools onto ships and aircraft, the Navy's top weapons buyer said last week. James Geurts, ...

Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, has demanded to know just what it is that senior adviser Darin Selnick does for Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and why he has to go back and forth to his California home at taxpayer expense twice a month to do it. ...

Federal Minister for Railways, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed on Wednesday made it clear to all anti-Pakistan elements that the missiles arsenal Pakistan possesses is not just for show as the country will use them if the need be.In a video message, ...

PORTSMOUTH -- The first notice last Thursday was terrifying: There was a report of an active shooter on a Navy shipyard.'Lockdown Lockdown Lockdown,' Norfolk Naval Shipyard wrote on Facebook. 'This is NOT a drill. ...

The joint health-care venture between Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway is primarily focused on simplifying health insurance, Jack Stoddard, the group's chief operating officer, says in court testimony.The testimony, given last month in a case brought by UnitedHealth Group, ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A U.S. soldier grievously wounded in a suicide bombing two years ago in Afghanistan filed suit Wednesday against an American defense contractor that employed the bomber, ...

WASHINGTON — Senior administration officials say U.S. troop withdrawals from the Korean Peninsula won't be on the planned agenda for next week's peace talks. Whether President Donald Trump decides to add them in remains to be seen. ...

A recent report throws cold water on one of the U.S. government's key pillars for what it calls whole-of-government deterrence in cyberspace: indictments. According to cyberthreat intelligence firm CrowdStrike's 2019 Global Threat report, ...

Shares of Stamps.com plummeted more than 48 percent after hours Thursday following the shipping company's announcement that they will no longer be partnering with USPS. 'We will no longer be exclusive to the USPS and that's non-negotiable, ...

TASS also reports the Poseidon, -- the name was chosen in a Web contest held by Russia's Ministry of Defense – will be armed with a 2-megaton warhead. That's more than enough to destroy a city. (This first appeared in December. ...

WASHINGTON — Federal union officials accused the Veterans Affairs Department of undermining its own health care system by not filling thousands of open department health positions while they push new rules covering more medical appointments at private-sector hospitals. ...