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SP's MAI - Issue No. 2 | January 16-31, 2015

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Army Day Parade 2015

  Indian Army celebrated its 67th Army Day on January 15, 2015. General Dalbir Singh, Chief of the Army Staff, reviewed the parade...

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  AEROSPACE
  HAL hands-over the first overhauled Su-30 MKI

  HAL handed the first overhauled Su-30 MKI (SB 027) aircraft to the India Air Force through the Defence Minister, Mr. Manohar Parrikar at a ceremony held at HAL Nashik today.

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  CORPORATE
  A.S. Kiran Kumar is Secretary, Department of Space, Chairman, Space Commission and ISRO

  Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar, distinguished scientist and Director, Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, assumed the office of the Secretary, Department of Space, Chairman, Space Commission and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on January 14, 2015.

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  CORPORATE
  Lockheed Martin leaders visit Tata-Lockheed Martin Aerostructures facility

  A team of senior Lockheed Martin executives led by Patrick Dewar, Executive Vice President, Lockheed Martin International...

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Modi-Obama strategic agenda
  By General V.P. Malik, Former Chief of the Army Staff

  On India’s part, increasing public awareness in India of the US support to our national security concerns in our region and beyond should help in balancing deep-rooted perceptions of the unreliability of the US as a defence supplier

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  AEROSPACE
  Defence Minister hands over Tejas to Indian Air Force

  Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar handed over the first series production light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas made by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to the IAF at a ceremony at HAL Bengaluru complex on January 17, 2015.

• CORPORATE
  Patria and Kongsberg in combat vehicle and weapon system programme in the Middle East

  Patria and Kongsberg have announced a teaming agreement to pursue together a major combat vehicle and weapon system programme in the Middle East region.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Obama The chief guest
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  On the strategic and security issues that are likely to be on the agenda, the US would like to incorporate India into her broader plan...

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  AEROSPACE
  Air Marshal Anil Khosla takes over as Director General Air Operations

  Air Marshal Anil Khosla took over as Director General Air Operations at Air Headquarters on January 12.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Expectations from Obama visit
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Over the past decade, the US has bagged defence deals worth $10 billion displacing Russia from the top position in the last three years

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  AEROSPACE
  Preliminary design for FGFA completed

  Russian and Indian engineers have completed the preliminary design for the export version of the fifth-generation fighter jet – the PAK-FA...

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  The Obama visit: US-India to extend Defence Framework Agreement
  By Ranjeet Kumar

  Will President Barack Obama’s visit to India on the eve of Indian Republic Day, which is marked with show of India’s military might...

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  AEROSPACE
  First maintenance stop for the A400M Atlas

  This is another first for the Atlas! On January 12, 2015, one of the air force’s A400M began its first maintenance visit at the Atelier Industriel de l’Aéronautique (aviation workshop, AIA) at Clermont-Ferrand.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Defence budget
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  In the next one month or so, the second defence budget is to be announced by the present government, which will also be the first defence budget...

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  AEROSPACE
  Boeing delivered all P-8As to US Navy

  Boeing last month delivered the eighth P-8A Poseidon, completing all planned deliveries to the US Navy for the year on time and on cost. That airplane, the 21st overall for the programme, flew from Seattle...

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Japan's Defence Budget enhanced
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey
  Former Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Training Command, IAF

  The enhanced budget, which is meant to counter the rise of the inimical neighbour and its growing military activity in the region...

• AEROSPACE
  Eurofighter global air policing duties

  Eurofighter Typhoon will continue to play a key role as a deterrent and policing capability for 2015 says Alberto Gutierrez, the Chief Executive Officer of Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Sacking of DRDO chief — Is it a sign?
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Sacking of DRDO chief may just be a warning to others and stop the ‘chalta hai’ attitude but what is needed is a complete revamp

• AEROSPACE
  Japan selects Northrop Grumman's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye

  The Japan Ministry of Defense has selected two Northrop Grumman Corporation systems to enhance its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.

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  MILITARY
  The Admiral R.D. Katari Memorial Lecture at New Delhi

  The 24th Admiral R.D. Katari Memorial Lecture titled ‘A National Security Strategy for India and the Maritime Domain’ was delivered by Shyam Saran, Chairman, Research and Information System...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / SPECIAL FEATURE
  Management of National Security – Some concerns
  By His Excellency N.N. Vohra

  I feel privileged to have been asked to deliver the First Air Cmde Jasjit Singh Memorial Lecture to remember Jasjit Singh who, after a long and distinguished tenure as Director General, Institute of Defence Studies...

• MILITARY
  Landing craft utility ship for Indian Navy launched at GRSE

  The third ship of the landing craft utility (LCU) Mk IV project, Yard 2094, for the Indian Navy was launched at the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Miley Cyrus has had her Los Angeles home burgled again

  Miley Cyrus has had her home burgled for a second time in less than a year - with the most recent break-in taking place just before Christmas.

• MILITARY
  Russia and Iran sign military deal

  Russia and Iran sign military deal Russia and Iran have signed a military cooperation deal recently. The Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu signed the military cooperation deal with Iran.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Sony hacking

  When Sony Pictures employees got into the office on November 24, they discovered that their corporate network had been hacked.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  BAE Systems' top five predictions for 2015

  Based on its work this year in the fields of cyber security and financial crime, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence believes the following will be the top five predictions for the digital criminality landscape in 2015.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Park 'N Fly breached

  Late last year, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that two huge swaths of credit card numbers put up for sale in the cybercrime underground had likely been stolen from Atlanta-based Park ‘N Fly...