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SP's MAI Issue No. 18 | September 16-30, 2012 - Military Updates

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Indo-China War 1962 Lessons and way forward
  By General (Retd) V.P. Malik

  India’s national security framework and its antiquated civil-military relationship have not grown in step with the needs of new security challenges. We need to change our mindsets and attitudes and look beyond the narrow boundaries defined by turf and parochialism.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Indo-China War What went wrong?
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Manmohan Singh and his successors need to remember we are in the 21st century and China has only refined her policy of ambiguity...

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Melting Siachen
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  We should tell Pakistan that circumstances have killed the Siachen demilitarisation issue. The LC beyond NJ 9842 should run “thence north” to Wakhan Corridor on J&KChina border.

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  MILITARY
  9Land Soldier sPad - small enough for the challenge

  For many years the market has had a need for a portable equivalent to a battlefield management system (BMS) for use by individual soldiers.

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  MILITARY
  ATK delivers 2 billion ammo rounds to US Army

  ATK recently achieved a world-class production milestone by delivering the 2 billionth 7.62mm round of ammunition manufactured at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (LCAAP) in Independence, Missouri.

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  MILITARY
  Raytheon receives contract for SM-3

  The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon a $230 million contract for 14 Standard Missile-3 Block IA missiles and five SM-3 Block IB missiles. The SM-3 Block IA missiles will bolster the nation’s inventory that is deployed around the world today aboard US and Japanese Navy ships.

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  MILITARY
  RAF trials new Foxhound armoured vehicle

  Members of No 5 RAF Force Protection Wing based at Camp Bastion in Helmand province, Afghanistan, have become amongst the very first Service personnel in the region to operate Foxhound...

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  MILITARY
  Australia’s future submarine capability

  The Australian Government has confirmed plans to buy 12 new submarines despite having run into serious problems with its four Collins class boats (above) and a manning shortage.

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  MILITARY
  Harris, Thales share $1.3 billion award for radios

  Harris Corp., of Rochester, New York, is being awarded a $39,74,51,848 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm fixed-price contract for consolidated single channel handheld radios. Thales Communications, Inc., Clarksburg, Maryland, is also being awarded a $36,87,24,343.

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  MILITARY
  DCNS promotes Gowind OPVs in South Africa

  The Gowind OPV L’Adroit visited Cape Town from September 5 to 9, 2012 during a long deployment off Africa, providing an opportunity for DCNS to promote the Gowind range and demonstrate the operational value...

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  MILITARY
  US Army to begin testing super MRAPs

  The US Army announced that production of the first five mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) prototype vehicles equipped with capability set 13 is complete and the vehicles have shipped from the US Army...

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  MILITARY
  Third frigate for the Royal Moroccan Navy

  On September 8, 2012, the SIGMA class frigate, Allal Ben Abdellah, built by damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) in Vlissingen, was transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy.

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  Thales Alenia Space to design France’s military satellites communications

  French defence procurement agency DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has awarded Thales Alenia Space a design contract to study military space communications capacity to be available by 2019.

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  Delivery of Visby

  Visby, the lead ship of a new class of corvettes, has finally been handed over to the Swedish Defence Force; these are the stealthiest and most flexible warships yet designed.