Spanish Company Expal demonstrates its One-Stop Shop for Mortar Systems including UAV

The Spanish Company Expal has demonstrated its 'One-Stop Shop' for Mortar Systems Tuesday, November 16th, in the Spanish Army firing and training range ‘Álvarez de Sotomayor’, located in Almeria (Spain). 

The Expal 'One-Stop Shop' for Mortar Systems includes a mini UAV for aerila reconnaissance.

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Local-made Belrex PCSV Protected Combat Support Vehicles enter in service with Singapore army

The new local-made Belrex PCSV (Protected Combat Support Vehicle) has entered in service with the Singapore armed forces, Friday November 25, 2015 to replace the army's five-tonne trucks. Second Minister for Defence Mr Ong Ye Kung officiated at a ceremony to mark the commissioning of the Belrex Protected Combat Support Vehicle (PCSV) at the SAFTI Live Firing Area this afternoon.

Second Minister for Defence Ong Ye Kung officiates at ceremony to commission Belrex Protected Combat Support Vehicle (Image from Twitter Power 98FM News) 

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Artillery units of Russia will replace Tochka-U tactical missile with Iskander-M

Russia’s Missile, Rocket and Tube Artillery Corps will fully replace the Tochka-U (NATO reporting name: SS-21 Scarab-B) tactical ballistic missile system with the Iskander-M (SS-26 Stone) complex by 2020, Corps Commander Lieutenant-General Mikhail Matveyevsky said. 

Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile at Army-2016, International Military Technical Forum near Moscow, Russia.

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Thales to upgrade simulators for Switzerland's H135M and AS532 helicopters

Thales has been notified by armasuisse for the standardisation of the Full Flight Mission Simulator (FFMS) for the AS532 Super-Puma transport helicopter. Functional upgrades will also be made to the multi-purpose twin-engined H135M military helicopter. 

Thales' EC635 military helicopter Full Flight Mission Simulator
(Credit: Thales)

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Russia and China implemented military contracts worth $3 billion for 2016.

Russia and China implemented military contracts worth three billion dollars this year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Yu Zhengsheng. 

President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping (R) and Vladimir Putin President of Russia (L)

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India's upgraded Jaguar DARIN III reaches IOC

Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria, AVSM, VM, Dy. Chief of India's Air Staff, flew the upgraded Jaguar DARIN III twin-seat aircraft at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) airport recently and announced satisfactory completion of Initial Operation Clearance (IOC) of Jaguar DARIN III Upgrade. Wg. Cdr. V. Prabhakaran, Test Pilot, ASTE was his co-pilot, HAL announced on Nov. 23. 

India's Jaguar DARIN III taking off from HAL facility
(Credit: HAL)

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Israel orders 17 more F-35A stealth fighters jets

Israel will buy 17 more F-35A stealth fighter jets yesterday, after a vote of approval yesterday, Nov. 27, by the country's Security Cabinet. This additionnal batch of "Adir" fighters will bring up Israel Air Force to a total of 50 F-35A by the end of 2030. These fighters are to be purchased with the military foreign aid received from the U.S through a Memorandum of Understanding signed in September 2016. 

Israel's F-35A Adir performing its maiden flight on July 25
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STM, Aselsan and Havelsan hold the signature ceremony of Agosta-90B modernization at IDEAS 2016

STM brought its experience from the submarine modernization projects of Turkish Naval Forces to abroad. STM, which is closely interested in the Submarine Modernization Market in the world, is awarded the contract on semi-life modernization of French origin AGOSTA-90B submarine of Pakistan. At this framework, A signature ceremony was organized for the subcontractors who were included in the project during IDEAS 2016 International Defense Fair, held in Pakistan. STM, ASELSAN and HAVELSAN participated in the signature ceremony of Agosta-90B submarine modernization project (Credit: Army Recognition)

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Belarus receives four more Yak-130 advanced jet trainers

Four brand-new Yakovlev Yak-130 combat training aircraft have been received by the Belarusian Air Force’s 116th Guards Attack Aircraft Air Base in Lida (Grodno Region, Belarus). "The delivery of another four Yak-130 combat training planes have enabled our pilots and cadets to continue to hone their skills in flying Generation 4++ aircraft," the BelTA news agency quoted Belarusian Air Force Commander Oleg Dvigalyov as saying. 

Belarus took delivery of a first batch of Yak-130 combat training aircraft in 2015(Credit: BelTA)

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UEC start testing new izdeliye 30 engine for PAKFA fighter jet

The United Engine Corporation (UEC, a subsidiary of Rostec) has conducted the first start of the advanced engine (Product 30) designed to power the T-50 (PAKFA - Russian acronym for Future Tactical Aircraft), the corporation’s press office says in a news release. 

A T-50 PAK FA still equipped with two NPO Saturn izdeliye 117 engines at MAKS 2011(Credit: Rulexip)

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Russian Navy to decide on prototype Koalitsiya-F 152mm naval howitzer system production

The Russian Navy has not yet made any decision on the production of a prototype of the promising Koalitsiya-F 152mm shipborne howitzer, the press office of Russia’s Uralvagonzavod armor producer said in an interview with Flotprom online media organization.

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GIDS of Pakistan presents muliti-missile launcher station armed with 4 Baktar Shikan missiles

The Pakistani Company Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS) presents multi-missile launcher station armed with four Baktar Shikan anti-tank guide missiles. GIDS is Pakistan leading public sector corporate company dealing in export of military, industrial, technological products/ systems and services.

Multi-launcher station armed with four Baktar Shikan anti-tank guided missiles at IDEAS 2016, the International Defense Exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan. 

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Uralvagonzavod from Russia to launch new production line of guns for T-14 and T-90MS tanks.

The Uralvagonzavod (Russian acronym: UVZ) scientific-research corporation will launch an automatized manufacturing line to produce newest high-precision guns for T-14 Armata and T-90MS main battle tanks (MBT), as well as for 2S25 Sprut-SDM air-droppable self-propelled anti-tank gun (SPATG) systems, the Izvestia newspaper said.

T-14 Armata main battle tank

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The POF Eye weapon system fitted with IR camera and video data transmission at IDEAS 2016.

At IDEAS 2016, Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) presents its POF Eye a portable weapon system that can fire around corners fitted with an IR camera with monocular screen mounted on an helmet. This new system is especially designed for SWAT and special forces teams in hostile situations, particularly counter-terrorism and hostage rescue operations.

POF Eye upgrade package with IR Camera, data transmission video and screen on the back side showed at IDEAS 2016, International Defense Exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Norway to Replace Ageing P-3 MPA & DA-20 Falcon EW Aircraft with Five Boeing P-8A Poseidon

The Norwegian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Friday that it intends to replace its ageing fleet of six P-3 Orion (four P-3C for ASW & two P-3N for SAR) and its three Dassault DA-20 ECM aircraft with five Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA).

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Russian Navy Naval Aviation to Receive Six New Su-30SM Fighters and Two Il-38 MPA by Year End

The seaborne aviation of the Russian Navy will receive some two dozen aircraft and helicopters, including six multipurpose Su-30SM fighter jets and two Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft in November-December, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Korolev told a meeting of the military council.

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Sixth Project 636.3 SSK Submarine "Kolpino" Handed Over to the Russian Navy Black Sea Fleet

The sixth diesel-electric Kolpino submarine of project 636.3 for the Black Sea fleet was passed over to the Russian Navy, TASS correspondent reported. St. Andrew's colors were hoisted on the submarine at the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg where the whole series of the submarines was built for the Black Sea fleet.

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Geospectrum Awarded Contract To Supply TRAPS Variable Depth Sonar To Royal Canadian Navy

GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce that is has received a contract through the Build in Canada Innovation Program. Defence Research and Development Canada will test the TRAPS (Towed Reelable Active Passive Sonar) variable depth ASW sonar on Royal Canadian Navy ships. 

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Video: First Mi-8AMTSh-VA Arctic Helicopter Transferred to Russian Navy Naval Aviation

The first Mil Mi-8AMTSh-VA (NATO reporting name: Hip) helicopter accepted by the Russian Navy shall be fielded with a unit in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Alexei Nikolaichuk, deputy commander for aviation engineering service, Naval Air Station 7060, has told journalists.

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Albanian Navy Ship ALS Oriku Joins NATO Maritime Mission for the First Time

The Albanian navy joined it’s first-ever NATO maritime mission with the addition of ALS Oriku to Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 on Monday. The vessel will support NATO activities in the Aegean Sea as part of the international efforts to stop illegal trafficking and migration.

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South-African company LMT awarded new contracts for its LM5 armoured vehicles

LMT (Land Mobility Technologies), a subsidiary of the South African company Denel Land Systems, signed contracts for supplying its LM5 armoured vehicles for two African countries. That was reported by the website defenceweb.co.za.

The LMT LM5 Vehicle (Photo LMT)

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Rosoboronexport has USD7 billion backlog of orders for land hardware

JSC Rosoboronexport (a subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation) is promoting the military hardware for land forces, being produced by Russia`s military-industrial complex, in full accordance with the tendencies of the world market. The company has a USD7 billion backlog of orders for land forces hardware, the press department of Rosoboronexport said in a statement.

JSC Rosoboronexport is the sole state intermediary agency for Russia's exports/imports of defense-related products, technologies and services. Here on the picture, a Pantsir production line (Photo Rostec)

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Spanish URO VAMTAC 4x4 multirole tactical vehicle in live demonstration at IDEAS 2016 in Pakistan

The Pakistani private Company car-manufacturer Metal Engineering Works (MEW) in collaboration with the Spanish Company URO Vehículos Especiales S.A. (UROVESA) presents the URO VAMTAC (Vehículo de Alta Movilidad Táctico, "High Mobility Tactical Vehicle") a four-wheel drive multirole military vehicle in live demonstration at IDEAS 2016, the International Defense Exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan.

The URO VAMTAC 4x4 multirole light tactical vehicle in live demonstration at IDEAS 2016, the International Defense Exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan

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Future Independence-class LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords Completes Acceptance Trials

The future USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) successfully completed its acceptance trials Nov. 18. The trials consisted of a series of in-port and underway demonstrations for the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV).

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Apollo software engineer Margaret Hamilton receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

	Amid all the publicity given to the more "famous" people recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom was Margaret Hamilton. She invented the term "software engineer" starting her career as a computer programmer at MIT in the 1960s. In August 1961, NASA issued a contract to MIT to design the Apollo spacecraft's guidance and navigational system. Hamilton presided over the in-flight software group. You can read more about her work on NASA's website. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/ Universal Machine post to email (CS blog)

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Russia to Launch Second Project 18280 Intelligence Ship Ivan Khurs in 2017

The Project 18280 intelligence ship Ivan Khurs will be floated out in 2017 rather than in the fourth quarter of 2016 as it was reported earlier, spokeswoman for Russia’s Northern Shipyard Olga Danilevskaya said. Danilevskaya made this statement in an interview with the Flotprom online media organization. 

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Real time avatar in Shakespeare's Tempest

The Royal Shakespeare Company is putting on a groundbreaking production of The Tempest in which the sprite Ariel, a central character in the play, is visualised by an avatar driven in real-time by an actor, Mark Quartley. Both the actor and the digital avatar are visible to the audience. As a big Shakespeare fan I'd love to see this performance and I can see how this fusion of technology and acting could be used in other Shakespeare plays; obviously Puck and the fairies in Midsummer Night's Dream and Banquo's ghost in Macbeth. Ars Technica has an interesting review of the production and you get a behind the scenes look in the video below. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/

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McDonald’s To Open 25,000 Robot-Run Restaurants

It looks inevitable that more and more jobs will be lost to robots in the foreseeable future. With the advent of self-driving vehicles it's clear that many driving jobs are under threat. However, less obvious jobs, like working in fast-food restaurants, are now under threat. McDonald's has recently announced that it plans to open 25,000 robot-run restaurants. Now it's clear that McDonalds has missed its 2016 target, but the threat is still there. from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/

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Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

The potential danger or threat that AI may pose to society and even humanity itself has been in the news a lot lately. Now, "thanks to an unprecedented £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Cambridge is to establish a new interdisciplinary research centre, the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, to explore the opportunities and challenges of this potentially epoch-making technological development, both short and long term. The Centre brings together computer scientists, philosophers, social scientists and others to examine the technical, practical and philosophical questions artificial intelligence raises for humanity in the coming century.
Human-level intelligence is familiar in biological "hardware" – it happens inside our skulls. Technology and science are now converging on a possible future where similar intelligence can be created in computers. While it is hard to predict when this will happen, some researchers suggest that human-level AI will be created within this century. Freed of biological constraints, such machines might become much more intelligent than humans. What would this mean for us? Stuart Russell, a world-leading AI researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and collaborator on the project, suggests that this would be "the biggest event in human history". Professor Stephen Hawking agrees, saying that "when it eventually does occur, it's likely to be either the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity, so there's huge value in getting it right."




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UK Government releases report on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

The UK Government's Science and Technology Committee undertook an inquiry into robotics and artificial intelligence. Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) was one of the "Eight Great Technologies" identified by the UK Government in 2012. The inquiry has now released a report on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence that you can download from the committee's parliamentary website. Dr Tania Mathias, interim Chair of the Committee, said:
"Artificial intelligence has some way to go before we see systems and robots as portrayed in the creative arts such as Star Wars. At present, 'AI machines' have narrow and specific roles, such as in voice-recognition or playing the board game 'Go'. But science fiction is slowly becoming science fact, and robotics and AI look destined to play an increasing role in our lives over the coming decades. It is too soon to set down sector-wide regulations for this nascent field but it is vital that careful scrutiny of the ethical, legal and societal ramifications of artificially intelligent systems begins now."



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Reputational damage

A new phrase for many, "reputational damage", doesn't get much worse than this. Samsung's incendiary Galaxy Note 7 has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Now it appears that according to the Guardian Samsung will be paying Galaxy Note 7 owners to buy competitors phones, including iPhones. It's estimated the Note 7 debacle will cost Samsung $17 billion and that's before "reputational damage is added into the equation. I expect a few Samsung senior execs will be looking for new employment soon.


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Do you have a Yahoo email account?

It has been revealed that "Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials." It is not known what the "specific Information" is/was. It is believed that this is the first example of a US internet company agreeing to a spy agency's request to search all arriving messages, rather than just examining stored messages or just scanning a targeted few accounts in real time. If this concerns you and you have a Yahoo mail account there are plenty of other options out there. For example, Tutanota provides a free end-to-end encrypted email service along with iOS and Android apps.

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