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SP's MAI - Issue No. 12 | June 16-30, 2014

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / NATIONAL AGENDA
  India China – first step in the thousand-mile journey?
  By Ranjit Kumar

  However, in spite of India’s concerns on some of the Chinese policies affecting India, the bilateral economic relations have moved...

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  AEROSPACE / REPORT
  Exercise Garuda V – Strengthening strategic partnership
  By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey

  The 400-year-old relationship between India and France and the over six decades of partnership between the Indian and French military aviation...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
  Cyber prowess
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  US and China will continue to be ‘friends’ and ‘cyber enemies’ at the same time and this will be the new exemplar of global relations...

• CORPORATE
  New Rolls-Royce UK discs facility

  Rolls-Royce marked the official opening of its new £100 million advanced aerospace disc manufacturing facility with a ceremony conducted by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Business Secretary...

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  MILITARY / NATIONAL AGENDA
  Energising India-China relations
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  President Xi Jinping is visiting India later this year. That would be the right time to cement a new dawn provided the Indo-China border issue is settled and India’s strategic interests are accommodated.

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  AEROSPACE
  Boeing delivers fourth P-8I to India

  Boeing has delivered the fourth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India on schedule, fulfilling the first half of a contract for eight aircraft. The aircraft departed from Boeing Field in Seattle and arrived May 21...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  England footballers passport details on Twitter

  It has been reported in the media that the passport numbers of members of the England Football squad have been accidentally tweeted out...

• CORPORATE
  Northrop Grumman, Diamond Aircraft collaboration

  Northrop Grumman Corporation is collaborating with Diamond Aircraft Industries, Inc., to deliver new intelligencegathering aircraft capabilities to Canadian and international markets.

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  MILITARY / NATIONAL AGENDA
  FDI in defence – Welcome move
  By Ranjit Kumar

  Talk of security concerns have become irrelevant and the government must think of developing self-dependency in weapon systems...

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  AEROSPACE
  IAF warehouse at HAL, Nasik inaugurated

  Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chief of the Air Staff has said that Indian Air Force, Department of Defence Production, MoD and HAL are working together as one entity towards meeting the defence preparedness...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Home Minister reviews LWE situation

  The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the security situation including left-wing extremism (LWE) in the state of Chhattisgarh.

• CORPORATE
  AgustaWestland and Havelsan MoU on training

  AgustaWestland and Havelsan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate and jointly market and sell their complementary training products and capabilities.

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  MILITARY / NATIONAL AGENDA
  Reorganising border defence
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Resolution of LAC is a complex issue, but there can be no excuse why we have not been able to resolve our border with Myanmar and Bangladesh, demarcated it, and established effective measures...

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  AEROSPACE
  Boeing multi-intelligence tactical aircraft surpasses 1,000 flight hours

  Boeing’s reconfigurable airborne multi-intelligence system (RAMIS) aircraft has flown for more than 1,000 hours, demonstrating the reliability...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Security review of Jammu and Kashmir

  Senior officers of the Department of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs briefed Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister, and Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home, on different issues relating to the State of J&K.

• CORPORATE
  Kale, Pratt & Whitney engine facility inaugurated in Turkey

  Kale Group and Pratt & Whitney celebrated the opening of a new factory in the Izmir Aegean Free Zone, which will specialise in manufacturing hardware for the F135 engine powering...

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Prime Minister's day at sea
  By Rear Admiral (Retd) Sushil Ramsay

  In his first visit to an operational military formation after assuming office, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the country’s new aircraft carrier...

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  AEROSPACE
  New batch of Su-34 transferred to Russian Air Force

  n June 10, Sukhoi Company transferred to the Russian Air Force the first batch of serial Su-34 front-line bombers under the 2014 State Defense Order. The aircraft took off the airfield of the Novosibirsk aircraft plant...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Modernisation of Central Armed Police Forces

  Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister, and Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State, were briefed on the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and the modernisation of CAPFs and police forces in the country.

• CORPORATE
  Thales acquires IMARCS

  Thales has expanded its product portfolio by acquiring the Integrated Maritime Coordination and Surveillance System (IMARCS) from Austal.

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  MILITARY
  Defence Minister visits forward areas in Uri sector

  Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who on his twoday tour to the Kashmir Valley June 14-15, visited the forward post on the line of control (LoC) in Uri sector. He was accompanied by General Bikram Singh, the Chief of Army Staff...

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  AEROSPACE
  Antonov AN-70 passes long-distance tests

  Antonov continues working on programme of the AN-70 wide-body medium military STOL transport. Having passed tests the aircraft began performing long-distance flights.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Airport security review

  The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting in New Delhi recently to review the security arrangements for airports in the country, especially in the light of the terrorist attack on Karachi airport...

• CORPORATE
  Airbus and NCS to establish a Centre of Excellence in Singapore for safe city solutions

  Airbus Defence and Space together with NCS will establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore for the research, development and the commercialisation of safe city solutions in Asia.

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  MILITARY
  Chief of Singapore Navy visits India

  Rear Admiral Ng Chee Peng, Chief of Navy, Republic of Singapore Navy, called on Admiral R.K. Dhowan, Chief of the Naval Staff, recently. The visit intensified the cooperation between both navies...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Schiebel Camcopter S-100 maritime capabilities for Brazilian Navy

  Schiebel’s dedication to the maritime domain and its ability to respond to the evolving unmanned systems requirements lead to a series of trials...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  New Additional Secretary Appointed

  Braj Kishore Prasad, IAS, has joined as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Prasad is assigned the work of Foreigners Division, Police Modernisation, Freedom Fighters & Rehabilitation...

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  MILITARY
  Chinese Navy admirals visit headquarters of Eastern Naval Command

  Rear Admiral Han Xiaohu, Commander PLAN Training Ship Task Group, and Rear Admiral Li Jianjun, Assistant Chief of Staff and Political Commissar...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Elbit Systems for Swiss UAS programme

  Elbit Systems has beaten compatriot IAI to win the competition for Switzerland’s new UAV, which will replace the Ranger UAVs...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Karachi airport attacked

  Around 10 gunmen attacked a security checkpost outside Pakistan’s Karachi airport recently. The terrorists were exchanging fire with troops, a day after a siege by the Taliban left 37 dead.

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  MILITARY
  Commander-in-Chief of Strategic Forces Command appointed

  Lt General Amit Sharma, has been promoted as Army Commander and appointed Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Improved Gray Eagle flies with SIGINT Pod and Hellfire missiles

  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced the successful...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  FIFA ignored 'high risk terror' warning with Qatar bid

  A security briefing ordered by FIFA less than a month before it awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup found the Gulf state was a “high risk” target for terror attacks during the tournament...

• MILITARY
  10 Weststar GS cargos for Timor-Leste

  In a concentrated move to broaden the Weststar Group of Companies’ horizon and exert more presence abroad, Global Komited Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Weststar Group of Companies...

• AEROSPACE
  Embraer opens assembly hangar for KC-390

  Embraer recently held the opening ceremony of the final assembly line of the KC-390 military transport. The event occurred at Embraer’s plant in Gavião Peixoto, São Paulo...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Britain's nuclear stations breached

  The Scottish National Party has raised concerns over reports that security at Britain’s nuclear power stations is being breached eight times every month.

• AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  RQ-4 Global Hawk arrives at Misawa

  The first-ever RQ-4 Global Hawk to touch down in Japan arrived at Misawa Air Base May 24. The remotely-piloted system was brought to Misawa AB to support US intelligence, surveillance...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Hacking expert cracks government website in four minutes

  The man who appeared before Congress recently to explain the security pitfalls of HealthCare.gov took to Fox News to explain just how easy it is to penetrate the website.

• AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Airbus Group's Quadcruiser validated in flight tests

  An innovative electric unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed in a cooperative Airbus Group effort has entered a new phase of flight testing, validating the concept’s ability to take-off...

• AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Airbus, Dassault Aviation and Alenia Aermacchi joint approach to nextgen drone

  Europe’s Industry is ready to develop a next generation advanced European unmanned aerial system (UAS). After their call for the development of a European drone at last year’s Paris Airshow...