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SP's MAI - Issue No. 9 | May 01-15, 2014

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Brainless blabber
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Sharif had no business poking his nose into the ongoing Indian elections; a sphere he has absolutely no business to talk especially with his army and ISI having consigned his own country into the jaws of radicalisation and terror in perpetuity or shall we say at least in foreseeable future.

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  AEROSPACE / VIEWPOINT
  The UCAV war
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  The Defence Research and Development Organisation is developing the medium altitude long endurance UAV as a forerunner to the high altitude long endurance UAV.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  US Secretary of Homeland Security meets immigration stakeholders

  The US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson recently met with leaders from business, law enforcement...

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  CORPORATE
  A400M training centre opens

  The first European expert centre for the A400M, the project’s training centre, has opened its doors as part of the multinational entry into service team (MEST).

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  TECHNOLOGY
  Electric E-Fan aircraft demonstrates airborne E-mobility

  The successful first public flight of the electric E-Fan experimental aircraft was the highlight of Airbus Group’s E-Aircraft Day in Bordeaux, France.

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  MILITARY / INTERVIEW
  WASS' strong ties with Indian Navy

  Regional Delegate Antonio Budroni of WASS explains how India is as good as its second domestic market and what the company plans in terms of partnerships.

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  AEROSPACE
  India's Astra BVRAAM test-fired from IAF flanker

  India’s first indigenously developed beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile Astra was successfully test-fired by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on May 4, 2014.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Pakistani singer detained for travelling on expired passport

  The Pakistani Consulate of Dubai has confirmed that Pakistani pop singer and President of Youth Wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Abrar-Ul-Haq...

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  CORPORATE
  Agilent Technologies strengthens aerospace and defence portfolio

  Agilent Technologies Inc., the world’s premier test and measurement company, concluded the 8th annual aerospace and defence symposium...

• TECHNOLOGY
  DARPA breakthroughs in prosthetics and neural interfaces

  To understand the meaning of “proprioception,” try a simple experiment. Close your eyes and lift your right arm above your head. Then, move it down so that it’s parallel to the ground.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  The precious chip
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Our engineering colleges need to give much more focus on practical rather than theoretical knowledge, without which our already late chip manufacturing will not get the required impetus, since we actually need to leapfrog capacity building in this sphere

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  AEROSPACE
  Air Marshal S.B.P. Sinha takes over as DCAS

  Air Marshal S.B.P. Sinha takes over as the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff at Air Headquarters on April 30, 2014.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Cannabis smuggled into Queensland everyday

  An organised crime syndicate exploited serious security failures at major domestic airports to fly more than two tonnes of cannabis on domestic flights bound for Brisbane.

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  CORPORATE
  French Ambassador awards scholarship to the first batch of MBDA-ISAE programme
  By Neetu Dhulia

  April 28th, the evening was beaming with the radiant faces of the first batch...

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  MILITARY
  Exercise Sarvada Vijay
  By Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor

  Exercise ‘Sarvada Vijay’ (Always Victorious) was held at Mahajan field firing ranges on May 3-4, 2014. The overall aim of the exercise was to practise conventional crossborder thrusts into enemy territory.

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  AEROSPACE
  Thales finalises delivery of maritime patrol aircrft to Turkey

  Thales announced the delivery of the final standard for the maritime patrol aircraft to Turkey as part of the MELTEM II programme...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  BJP says it will strengthen internal security

  The BJP manifesto has stated that it would strengthen the role of National Investigation Agency (NIA) and put in place a system of swift and fair trial of terror-related cases.

• CORPORATE
  Saab and Pilatus sign MoU

  Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. has signed a memorandum of understanding with SAAB cementing a far-reaching partnership which on the one hand addresses the offset obligations of SAAB related to the possible purchase of the Gripen for the Swiss Air Force...

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  MILITARY
  Chief of Naval Staff visits Headquarters Eastern Naval Command

  Admiral R.K. Dhowan, the Chief of the Naval Staff reviewed a ceremonial parade held in his honour at INS Circars Parade Ground April 30, 2014.

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  AEROSPACE
  L-3 WESCAM demo of MX-25D EO technologies on Apache

  L-3 WESCAM announced that it had successful ground and flight demonstrations of its MX™-25D at the US Army’s Redstone Test Center (RTC) in Alabama recently.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Appointments

  R.R. Verma, IPS, presently Director, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will hold the additional charge of the post of Director General, Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guards (FSCD&HG)...

• CORPORATE
  eInfochips receives Rockwell Collins 2014 supplier of the year award

  eInfochips, a leading product design company, earned the 2014 Supplier of the Year award for Development and Engineering Services from Rockwell Collins, a global leader in avionics with more than $4 billion in annual revenues.

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  MILITARY
  Chinese delegation visits India

  Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo, Deputy Chief of General Staff (Operations), PLA China was on a two-day visit on April 22 and 23 in India, along with an eight member delegation.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Camcopter S-100 demonstrates its maritime capability in the Netherlands

  The Camcopter S-100 unmanned air system (UAS) successfully demonstrated its capability across several different maritime scenarios...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Ceasefire in Nagaland

  A ceasefire is in operation between the Government of India and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) (NSCN/K). The validity of ceasefire was further reviewed.

• CORPORATE
  Nexter Systems signs acquisition agreements

  Nexter Systems signed acquisition agreements with Chemring Group for all the shares of the companies Mecar (Belgium) and Simmel Difesa (Italy).

• AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Lockheed Martin demonstrates enhanced ground control system for SUAS

  Lockheed Martin’s Group 1 family of unmanned aircraft systems is migrating to enhanced automation capabilities using its Kestrel “Fly Light” flight control systems and industry-leading mobile ground control station (mGCS) software.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Detecting chemical composition of liquids

  In the running for UK’s premier engineering prize is a new machine which can identify the chemical composition of liquids sealed within non-metallic containers without opening them.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Boards wrong flight

  A 37-year-old man who did not have an airline boarding pass managed to clear three security checkpoints and fly from Mumbai to Rajkot on a Jet Airways flight recently.