Upgrades include 25 mm unmanned turrets, 12.7 mm remote controlled weapon stations (RCWS) and fire control systems (FCS) for 90 mm turrets.
Elbit Systems Ltd., one of the leading Israeli defense manufacturers, announced that it has bagged a USD 20 million (around P882 million) contract to supply upgraded armored personnel carriers (APCs) for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Upgrades include 25 mm unmanned turrets, 12.7 mm remote controlled weapon stations (RCWS) and fire control systems (FCS) for 90 mm turrets.
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A civilian Learjet plane has crashed in western Germany after a mid-air collision with a German air force Eurofighter jet. The Learjet came down in woodland near the town of Olsberg, killing one person and leaving another feared dead. By WENDELL MINNICK (http://www.defensenews.com)
TAIPEI — There are doubts in Washington that a US president would ever approve the bombing of China. This notion demonstrates that the Pentagon’s Air-Sea Battle operational concept is seriously flawed, said T.X. Hammes, a senior researcher in strategy and future conflict at the department’s National Defense University. Hammes told Defense News that no president has ever authorized the bombing of China, including during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Yet one of Air-Sea Battle’s basic tenets is aerial bombing of command-and-control hubs, mobile missile launchers, air bases, and port facilities. Hammes has written about an alternative strategy, Offshore Control, in several articles and papers since 2012. In his latest article, co-authored with Richard Hooker, National Defense University’s director for research and strategic support in the Institute for National Strategic Studies, they argue that Offshore Control offers a less provocative military option. By Travis J. Tritten (http://www.stripes.com)
WASHINGTON — The A-10 Warthog survived a key budget vote in Congress on Thursday, increasing chances that lawmakers will reject Air Force plans to retire the aircraft beginning next year. The House passed an amendment to its $570 billion defense-spending bill that would bar the service from axing the venerable A-10, officially known as the Thunderbolt. The full appropriations bill was expected to be passed on Friday. The Senate has yet to pass its version of the spending bill but made earlier votes to keep the aircraft as well. Oleh: Unit Komunikasi Korporat - MINDEF
Putrajaya - Institut Penyelidikan Sains dan Teknologi Pertahanan (STRIDE) Kementerian Pertahanan dengan kerjasama Majlis Keselamatan Negara (MKN), Kementerian Luar Negeri, Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia, Jabatan Perkhidmatan Veterinar, Jabatan Perikanan Malaysia, Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia, Polis Diraja Malaysia dan Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), Jabatan Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat menganjurkan Program TTX Blazing Tiger 2014: Bioincident Multisectoral Coordination Exercise. Program TTX ini diadakan khusus kepada Ketua Jabatan dan Kementerian berkaitan. Oleh: Andri Haryanto (www.detik.com)
Sebanyak 52 tank Leopard siap dikirimkan dari Jerman ke Indonesia di pengiriman pertama ini. Jumlah tersebut merupakan sebagian dari total pemesanan TNI AD 2013 sebanyak 164 unit. By: VPK (vpk.name)
Russia and the Philippines are discussing the possibility of delivery to the Asian country the Russian infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3F. The journalists at the International Salon of weapons "Eurosatory 2014" Deputy General Director of "Rosoboronexport" Igor Sevastyanov. Oleh: Malik Saedon (rentaka.weebly.com)
Pengalaman tempur telah menunjukan bahawa peluru berpandu anti kapal yang sedia ada telah terbukti masih berbisa di medan tempur. Pun begitu, kemunculan banyak kapal perang generasi baru yang menggunakan teknologi stealth serta pelbagai sistem umpanan dan sistem pertahanan elektronik yang ditawarkan di pasaran, keberkesanan peluru berpandu anti kapal sedia ada dijangka akan berkurangan. Kini telah muncul sebuah peluru berpandu anti kapal generasi baru yang dijangka akan mampu menembusi sistem pertahanan kapal perang iaitu Naval Strike Missile atau NSM. Dalam pencarian sistem peluru berpandu anti kapal yang sesuaian untuk melengkapi kapal- kapal perang generasi baru mereka, Tentera Laut Diraja Norway telah mendapati sistem peluru berpandu anti kapal yang berada di pasaran tidak mampu untuk memenuhi keperluan mereka terutamanya untuk era selepas 2015. oleh itu, Tentera Laut Diraja Norway telah membuat keputusan untuk membangunkan sistem peluru berpandu anti kapal baru yang dilengkapi dengan teknologi terkini serta mampu memenuhi bukan sahaja keperluan mereka tetapi juga tentera laut di seluruh dunia. Pembangunan peluru berpandu anti kapal baru ini telah diberikan kepada firma Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace yang turut sama membangunkan peluru berpandu Penguin. Pada pertengahan dekad 90an, Tentera Laut Diraja Norway telah mengeluarkan keperluan untuk pengganti peluru berpandu anti kapal Penguin dan peluru berpandu anti kapal baru ini diberi nama Nytt Sjømålsmissil. Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace kemudiannya telah mengubah nama peluru berpandu anti kapal ini kepada Naval Strike Missile (NSM). Sejak daripada konsep permulaan lagi, NSM direka agar bersifat sangat fleksibel dan mampu dilancarkan daripada pelbagai platform pelancar daripada kapal perang, pesawat pejuang hinggalah ke bateri pertahanan pantai terhadap sasaran di permukaan laut mahupun di darat. menggunakan konsep peluru berpandu anti kapal Penguin sebagai asas, NSM menggabungkan penderia elektro-optik dengan jangkauan operasi yang lebih jauh serta teknologi stealth yang menjadikannya sukar untuk dikesan. By: Ian McPhedran (www.news.com.au)
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Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman says the Government has given approval for the NZDF to seek a replacement for the Steyr rifle. “It is important NZDF personnel are well equipped and have effective modern rifles suited to today’s operational environment,” says Dr Coleman. By: Stratergypage (www.stratergypage.com)
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More than two years after India's ministry of defence (MoD) chose to buy 126 Dassault Rafale fighters for the Indian Air Force (IAF), the world's biggest fighter contract swings in the wind. With no deal in sight after 28 months of haggling with Dassault, two of the losing vendors -Eurofighter and Saab - believe they could yet come out tops. Oleh: IKAHAN (www.ikahan.com)
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THE Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base Butterworth is straining under the weight of personnel and materiel being flown in daily as part of the biggest combined military exercise in Southeast Asia. Dubbed Cope Taufan/Teak Mint 2014, the exercise is to test the capability of the RMAF and the United States Air Force to streamline their common procedures, enhance the interoperatability between the two fighting forces, step up bilateral training and cooperation and provide a realistic training environment. By: BMPD (www.bmpd.livejournal.com)
As reported by the chief editor of Ukrainian web-resource Tsenzor.Net Yuri Butusov, "for three weeks more than 30 new Ukrainian BTR-3E near Kiev are not in motion. These armored vehicles were built by order of Thailand, but due to the war, delivery was suspended." |
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