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SP's MAI - Issue No. 13 | July 01-15, 2013

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Light beyond the tunnel
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  Government actually needs to take a call and bifurcate what should be developed by the private sector and what should be by DRDOPSUs in order to give the required impetus to focused defence production

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  AEROSPACE / INTERVIEW
  'All 75 PC-7 Mk-II are expected to be delivered by August 2015'

  Air Marshal D.C. Kumaria, outgoing Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force (IAF), in conversation with SP’s M.A.I., spoke about IAF’s modernisation plans, new inductions, RFPs, joint exercises, etc.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  TV actress sends toxic missives to VIPs

  Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, a small-time television actress, was recently arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to US President...

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  CORPORATE
  Embraer and Boeing to market KC-390 medium-airlift aircraft

  Embraer and Boeing are partnering on the sales and marketing of Embraer’s KC-390, a multi-mission mobility and aerial refuelling aircraft...

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  MILITARY / INTERVIEW
  Textron committed to develop close relations with Indian companies

  Inderjit Sial who took over as the President and Managing Director of Textron India in November last year, spoke to SP’s M.A.I. on the company’s varied plans and programmes for the Indian armed forces.

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  AEROSPACE / SHOW REPORT / PARIS AIR SHOW
  Russian aircraft take to French skies in the absence of US military aircraft
  By R. Chandrakanth

  One expected the 50th Paris Air Show (Golden Jubilee Year) held...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Woman carries knife inside Gujarat secretariat

  Last week, a 35-year-old woman got into the new secretariat building of Gujarat with a long knife in her purse. In a major security breach...

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  CORPORATE
  Eurocopter appoints Matthieu Louvot head of support and services

  Currently Head of Strategy & Company Development, Matthieu Louvot has been appointed Head of Support & Services within Eurocopter.

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Largest rescue and relief operations by the Indian armed forces

  It is considered as the one of the largest rescue operations of the Indian armed forces, evacuating civilians affected by the floods in Uttarakhand...

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  AEROSPACE
  IAF's C-17 Globemaster's maiden flight to Port Blair

  The first of the ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III of the Indian Air Force (IAF) landed at the Hindon Air Base on June 18. It was received by Air Marshal S. Sukumar, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff at the Hindon Air Base.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Tripartite meeting with ULFA

  A tripartite meeting involving the representatives of Government of Assam, and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was held recently under the chairmanship of outgoing Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh to review the progress made in talks with ULFA and also to discuss their demands.

• CORPORATE
  Management appointments at Safran

  Safran has made several management appointments, effective July 1, 2013: General William Kurtz has been named Military Advisor to Jean-Paul Herteman, Chairman and CEO of Safran. He replaces Baudouin Albanel, who is retiring.

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  MILITARY / INTERVIEW
  'DPP has evolved as a comprehensive, and robust compilation'

  In an interview with SP’s Senior Technical Group Editor Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor, Deputy Chief of Army Staff (P&S), Lt General Narendra Singh, gave updates about the different modernisation programmes.

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  AEROSPACE
  Israel receives first C-130J Super Hercules 'Shimshon'

  Israel receives first C-130J Super Hercules 'Shimshon'Lockheed Martin delivered to Israel its first C-130J Super Hercules airlifter during a ceremony recently at its aeronautics company’s production facility here.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Anil Goswami takes over as Home Secretary

  Anil Goswami has taken over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds Raj Kumar Singh who has retired from service. Anil Goswami is an IAS officer of 1978 batch and is from the Jammu and Kashmir cadre.

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  MILITARY
  DPSUs need to be globally competitive: Antony

  The Defence Minister A.K. Antony has said that the defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs) need to compete not just with private organisations but also with global companies, to get orders.

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  AEROSPACE
  First Italian Army ICH-47F Chinook's maiden flight

  AgustaWestland announced that the first ICH-47F Chinook for the Italian Army successfully accomplished its maiden flight on June 24 at Vergiate in Italy.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Krishna Chaudhary appointed DG of National Disaster Response Force

  Krishna Chaudhary has been appointed as Director General of the National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence (NDRF&CD).

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  MILITARY
  MBDA starts MMP integration tests

  MBDA has started integration tests with MMP (Missile Moyenne Portée – Medium Range Missile) which the company has been developing under its own funding since 2009 to equip the French Army...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  GA-ASI to develop Predator B variant to meet NATO/European airworthiness standards

  General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  LWE apprehended

  Inderjeet alias Kapil Yadav, operation commander of eastern regional bureau company of CPI (Maoist) and a close associate of Arvindji alias Deo Kumar Singh, Central Committee Member of the CPI...

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  MILITARY
  1,000th Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon delivered to Australia

  The Minister for Defence Materiel Dr Mike Kelly AM MP has announced the delivery of the 1000th Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon under Project LAND 121 Phase 3A.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Piaggio Aero unveils P.1HH 'HammerHead'

  Piaggio Aero Industries has unveiled the Piaggio Aero P.1HH “Hammer-Head” unmanned aerial system (UAS) at the Paris Air Show.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  US Senate passes sweeping immigration bill

  The US Senate recently approved a sweeping immigration overhaul bill, the most important immigration measure since the 1986 Immigration and Reform Act (IRCA).

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  MILITARY
  Lockheed Martin's JLTV rolls off assembly line

  The final Lockheed Martin joint light tactical vehicle (JLTV) produced for the programme’s engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) phase has rolled off the assembly line...

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Barracuda: 10 years of development in unmanned flight tech

  Cassidian looks back over what is now 10 years of test flight experience...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  UK raises budget to counterterrorism

  The UK agencies responsible for fighting terrorism — MI6, MI5, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) — will see a significant increase in their combined £1.9 billion budget...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  US and Canada announce first-ever binational border infrastructure investment plan

  The US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, along with Ray LaHood, Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Phuket Airport security staffer steals from tourist

  Thailand police recently arrested a baggage security worker at Phuket International Airport after the officer was found to have stolen $900 from an Australian tourist’s carry-on bag while it was passing through the x-ray machine.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Drones intercepted in Iraq

  In 2009, the Pentagon closed a security breach that allowed insurgents to hack into data feeds from pilotless “drone” aircraft that provide real-time video of war zones in Iraq.