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CBO releases new triad upgrade estimate
The US will have to spend some USD248 billion on modernising its ICBMs (pictured), nuclear submarines, and bombers, according to a new estimate. Source: USAFAnalysis: UN peacekeepers struggle against IEDs in Mali
MINUSMA's African contingents make extensive use of vehicles that are extremely vulnerable to IEDs, such as this Chadian pickup, which was hit by an explosive device near Aguelhoc on 2 December. Three Chadians were injured in the incident. Source: MINUSMAEuronaval 2014: Thales launches new sonar suite for small surface combatants, patrol vessels
CAPTAS-1 is the latest addition to the CAPTAS family of low-frequency active/passive sonars. Source: ThalesSatellite imagery shows Parchin explosion aftermath
Airbus Defence and Space imagery shows the site of an explosion at the Parchin military complex near Tehran. (CNES 2014, Distribution Airbus DS / Spot Image / IHS)
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Amid Iran deal, Russia renews opposition to US missile defence in Europe
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said during a 14 July press briefing in Vienna that he expects the United States will, given the nuclear deal with Iran, halt its efforts to install missile defence systems in Europe that Russia has long viewed as a threat to its own nuclear deterrent. It was
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Kuwait orders Rheinmetall MAN NBC reconnaissance vehicles
Kuwait has ordered 12 nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) reconnaissance vehicles from Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles, Rheinmetall announced on 1 July. Deliveries of the 6x6 Fox (Fuchs) 2 NBS-RS variants are scheduled to commence in 2017. Terms of the accord were not disclosed. Rheinmetall
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Moscow tests final 'nuclear triad' element with snap mobile strategic missile drills
Russia's Strategic Missile Forces on 1 June began a series of 50 large-scale missile regiment-level and "special tactical" exercises, lasting more than one month, Colonel Igor Egorov of the country's Defence Ministry has announced. The exercises involve the rapid deployment and break-out
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Pentagon reviewing anthrax handling after mistakenly shipping live samples
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is reviewing its processes for handling anthrax after mistakenly shipping live samples to at least 51 laboratories. The Pentagon realised in late May that it had accidentally shipped live anthrax samples - among inactivated samples - to at least 51 laboratories in
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SOFIC 2015: SOF leader seeks tech for counter-IED, 'ideological fight'
Special Operations Forces (SOF) operating in US Central Command (CENTCOM) are seeking industry's help to defeat a range of improvised explosive device (IED) threats and to "win the ideological fight" taking place across that region. That was one of the messages emerging from a Theater
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Second centrifuge hall in use in North Korea
North Korea appears to have brought a second hall of uranium enrichment centrifuges into service at its Yongbyon site. Nick Hansen examines the evidence of operational activity and the implications for Pyongyang's civil and military nuclear programmes. -
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Underwater ambitions: submarines and anti-submarine capabilities in Southeast Asia
The rapid proliferation of submarines in Southeast Asia has resulted in heightened interest in anti-submarine warfare platforms and equipment. Ridzwan Rahmat examines key developments
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Russian 'Bear' bombers set to be grounded again following Far East crash
The Russian Air Force (Voyenno-Vozdushnyye Sily - VVS) is set to ground its ageing Tupolev Tu-95 'Bear' strategic bomber fleet for a second time in barely a month after the loss of an aircraft over the country's Far East on 14 July. The grounding, which had not been ordered at the time of writing
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Australia ready to sign EF88 Austeyr rifle contract
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will begin taking delivery in 2016 of about 30,000 new EF88 Austeyr 5.56 mm rifles under an AUD100 million (USD75 million) contract to be signed later this month, a Department of Defence (DoD) spokesman confirmed to IHS Jane's on 7 July. The contract, to be signed
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Seeker UAV crashes in Yemen
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down near the Saudi border in Yemen's northern Sadah province, the Al-Masirah news channel reported on 5 July. It broadcast footage showing the wreckage of a UAV that appeared to be a Denel Dynamics Seeker 200 (previously known as the Seeker II). Like the
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AM-35 and AM-50 (humanitarian anti-mine boots)
Development Zeman's mine resistant boots are designed to provide leg protection against Anti-Personnel (AP) mines containing up to 35 g (AM-35 type) and 50 g (AM-50 type) high explosives (TNT) and have been developed by Zeman in cooperation with Aall Jiri Chladek explosives consultants (see
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Hard wired compact exploders ATLAS 300 & ATLAS 350
Description The ATLAS 300 and 350 are electronic capacitor exploders designed for firing electric detonators. They each feature one firing output, equipped with safety sockets in order to avoid the user from being in contact with dangerous output voltage. The ATLAS 300 exploder is equipped with
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Joint Protective AirCrew Ensemble (JPACE) Chemical Protective Coverall (CPC)
Development The Blücher Joint Protective AirCrew Ensemble (JPACE) Chemical Protective Coverall (CPC) was developed as part of a joint programme for a CBRN protective aircrew suit intended for use by all fixed and rotary wing aviators of the US Armed Forces (US Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine
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Scansilc 4336 High Definition Portable X-ray System
Description The Scansilc 4336 is a high performance portable X-ray system for use in defence and security applications, that incorporates a high resolution x-ray detector with a large format 43 × 36 cm imaging area which has a 14-bit dynamic range and 139 µm pixel pitch. The flat panel
