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SP's MAI Issue No. 7 | April 01-15, 2013 - Military Updates

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  MILITARY / EXPERT OPINION
  China's 'String of Pearls'
  By Air Marshal (Retd) Anil Chopra

  Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have taken their destined places in the new Chinese hierarchy. Among Xi’s opening foreign policy remarks, relationship with India has figured prominently.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Serpentine manoeuvres
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  By getting China into Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan hopes to divert attention of the Shia rebellion in the area, where the hapless Shias are being systematically killed through institutionalised attacks

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  Rafael expanding relationship with Indian defence industry
  By Y. Yaari, President and CEO, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.

  Rafael’s long-standing relationship with the Indian defence industry and military is of strategic significance to both Israel and India and to their industries.

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  MILITARY
  Third anti-submarine warfare corvette for Indian Navy launched

  The third anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette for the Indian Navy designed under Project-28 (P-28) by the Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design, being built by one of India’s leading shipbuilders, the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. (GRSE), was launched in Kolkata, on March 26, 2013.

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  MILITARY
  India first country to have submarine launched cruise missile

  India, on March 20, successfully carried out the maiden test-firing of the over 290-km-range submarinelaunched version of BrahMos...

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  MILITARY
  Raytheon delivers 8th AN/TPY-2 radar to MDA

  Raytheon Company delivered its eighth AN/TPY-2 radar to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in support of the US combatant commands.

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  MILITARY
  BAE Systems contract to produce more innovative explosives

  The US Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract valued at as much as $780 million over the next five years to continue producing explosives...

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  MILITARY
  Saab bags order for Arthur system

  Saab has bagged a new order for its Arthur weapon locating system from an unnamed customer. The order, valued at MSEK 128, will see delivery take place in 2014.

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  MILITARY
  Taiwan to test new MLR artillery in exercise

  The locally developed Thunderbolt-2000 artillery multiple-launch rocket system (AMLRS) will join the nation’s largest annual drill during a scheduled live-fire exercise next month, the Ministry of National Defense...

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  MILITARY
  Ground Master air defence radar for Estonia

  An official ceremony was held on March 26 on Muhu Island in Estonia to mark the entry into service of the first Ground Master 400 (GM 400) long-range air defence radar system supplied by Thales Raytheon Systems...

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  MILITARY
  HMS Duncan reaches Portsmouth naval base

  The 7,500-tonne vessel, HMS Duncan, armed with the world-leading Sea Viper missile defence system, has sailed to her new home in Portsmouth, where she will undergo a series of trials and tests...

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  MILITARY / SIMULATION
  Colombian marines procure tactical weapon simulators

  Laser Shot, in collaboration with the Programme Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Division, has been awarded a contract valued at $9,44,000 for the delivery and installation of tactical weapons simulators (TWS)...

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  MILITARY / SIMULATION
  Virtual convoy simulator

  Retired paratrooper Ronnie Bland is the senior enabler on a life-sized, virtual convoy-skills trainer called the Special operations reconfigurable vehicle...

• MILITARY
  New British Army DEMS training regiment opens

  The British Army has officially opened its new Defence Explosive ordnance disposal, Munitions and Search Training Regiment (DEMS Trg Regt) at a new £100-million training facility at St George’s Barracks, Bicester.

• MILITARY
  First rapid prototype torpedo warning system testing on board CVN

  USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) PMS 415’s Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) team began at-sea testing and data collection of the rapid prototype torpedo warning system (TWS) and countermeasure antitorpedo (CAT) system, March 19.

• MILITARY / SIMULATION
  Patriot simulator at Israeli academy

  The Aerial Defense Academy in southern Israel now hosts a new Patriot simulator, meaning service members training to operate the anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon will be able to practise at home instead of travelling to the United States.