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SP's MAI - Issue No. 16 | August 16-31, 2013

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Dealing with rogue Pakistan
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Indian Army must review its counterinfiltration operating procedure on the LoC. In all likelihood commanders on ground are constrained by an overwhelming urge to look for signal from the brass before taking any tough step.

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  AEROSPACE / EXPERT OPINION
  Basic trainer aircraft: The facts
  By Air Marshal (Retd) Anil Chopra

  The debate on whether the basic trainer aircraft (BTA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) should be indigenously developed or procured from abroad, hit a new high after a report in the media alleging that the IAF was trying to scuttle the development of the BTA by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Home Minister lists out security initiatives taken during the year

  The Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde who has completed one year as Home Minister, in his report has listed out various initiatives taken...

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  CORPORATE
  HAL signs MoU with Transparency International India

  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Transparency International India (TII) for adoption of integrity pact (IP).

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  TECHNOLOGY
  Harnessing new ideas

  Gunners, patrol personnel, cooks, medics and other soldiers who wear helmets for long periods of time could get much needed head and neck relief from a revolutionary device developed...

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  India's cruise missile
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  It was quite apparent that to meet the operational need of a medium range cruise missile, India will have to go the indigenous route...

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  AEROSPACE
  Navy's Boeing P-8I touches down at the Emerald Islands

  The Boeing P-8I, a long-range maritime reconnaissance anti-submarine warfare (LRMR/ASW) aircraft of the Indian Navy, made its maiden landing at the INS Utkrosh airfield on August 6.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Kim Kardashian records 'accessed'

  Six workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been fired after it was discovered that patient records were “inappropriately accessed” between June 18 and 24, and Kim Kardashian may have been one of the patients.

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  CORPORATE
  ATK announces new appointments

  ATK has announced that its Board of Directors has elected Stephen M. Nolan as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. Nolan (right top) was previously interim Senior Vice President of Business Development.

• TECHNOLOGY
  ARL, Purdue University research of 3-D printing to fix damaged on-the-spot in combat zones

  New technology being developed by research engineers at the US Army Research Laboratory and Purdue University will soon help just about any soldier deployed in far-off locations to immediately spot and fix damaged aircraft and ground vehicle parts.

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Indigenous aircraft carrier – A crowning glory
  By Rear Admiral (Retd) Sushil Ramsay

  The glorious moment in the annals of India’s indigenous shipbuilding industry arrived amidst chanting of verses from the Vedas, at CSL, Kochi...

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  AEROSPACE
  F-35B completes 500th vertical landing

  The Lockheed Martin F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft completed its 500th vertical landing on August 3. BF-1, the aircraft which completed this achievement, also accomplished the variant’s first...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Security lapses hit tourism in Lebanon

  The recent kidnappings of two Turkish pilots will weigh heavily on Lebanon’s tourism sector, which has already lost $40 million in revenues...

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  CORPORATE
  Polaris India donates five vehicles to Uttarakhand Government

  Polaris India Pvt. Ltd, the world leader in off-road and allterrain vehicles has donated five off road vehicles to Uttarakhand Government...

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  India celebrates 66 years of Independence
  By R. Chandrakanth

  It was at the Red Fort in Delhi, the first Indian P.M. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru...

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  AEROSPACE
  One million flight hours for Apache targeting and pilotage sensor

  Lockheed Martin and the US Army celebrated one million flight hours for the modernised target acquisition designation sight/pilot night vision sensor...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  US survey finds 9,600 cases of security misconduct

  Transportation Security Administration officers were cited for more than 9,600 cases of misconduct from 2010 to 2012, according to a new government report that shows agency employees often received light punishments for sneaking prohibited items past scanners or napping on the job.

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  MILITARY
  Indian Navy's INS Sindhurakshak catches fire, 18 feared dead

  A massive fire took place after a series of explosion onboard INS Sindhurakshak, a Kilo class submarine of the Indian Navy...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Fire Scout surpasses flight hour record aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts

  Helicopter Strike Maritime Squadron (HSM) 46, Det. 9 recently surpassed...

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  MILITARY
  Nuclear reactor on INS Arihant goes critical

  India recently activated the atomic reactor onboard the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant paving way for its operational deployment by the Indian Navy soon, thus completing the capability on land, air and sea.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  T-20 UAV flies high

  The Arcturus T-20 unmanned aerial vehicle flew to an altitude of 23,500’MSL during a training flight at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, Wyoming.

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  MILITARY
  Prithvi-II hits target in a flawless user mission

  A missile unit of the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) recently launched the indigenously developed surface-to-surface/nuclear capable Prithvi II missile with a strike range of around 350 km, from the test range at Chandipur...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  TOR Robotics introduces Q-4 Drone

  TOR Robotics, a San Francisco, California based manufacturer, has introduced the Q-4, a fully autonomous robotic VTOL drone.

• MILITARY
  Exelis to supply advanced jamming pods

  Exelis has received a $68 million multiyear indefinite-delivery, indefinitequantity contract to continue supplying the Advanced Capability Pod (ACaP) to the US Air Force and US Navy for use on F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 tactical aircraft.