Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 5:10 am
Kenya’s navy will soon take delivery of the KNS Jasiri offshore patrol vessel, giving the navy the ability to operate at the extremities of the continental shelf. The ship will arrive after nearly seven years of delays. “Negotiations are at a very advanced stage to have the ship delivered. Our o...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 4:55 am
Following contract award in July 2010, Schiebel is pleased to announce delivery of two CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) to the King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) of Jordan. The UAS will form a key part of the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) Reconnaissance Squadron, as KADDB...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 3:06 am
The Navy's venerable Fire Scout unmanned drone could go global if service leaders can lock in agreements with a number of key European and Mideast allies. Navy leaders are considering foreign military sales of the Northrop Grumman-built Fire Scout to Kuwait, Pakistan and the Netherlands, according t...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 3:01 am
Voronezh class radar near St. Petersburg This month a new radar of the Voronezh class will be put on alert duty near Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg as part of Russia’s early warning system, a missile defense spokesman said on Thursday. The current overhaul of Russia’s missile d...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 2:47 am
The first batch of Advanced Light Helicopter 'Dhruv' Mk-III was on Wednesday inducted at the IAF station here. Air Marshal P S Gill, Senior Air Staff Officer, Central Air Command, Allahabad presided the induction ceremony of the 10 Mk-III helicopters. Later talking to mediapersons, Air Marshal Gill ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 2:40 am
The ongoing Tropex-2012 (theatre-level readiness and operational exercise) by the Indian Navy off the east coast has, for the first time, tested a new network-centric battle concept involving India's two operational naval commands, the Western Fleet as well as the Eastern Fleet. According to an Indi...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 2:20 am
Validating Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) capability, India successfully launched an interceptor missile to destroy an incoming target missile in a direct hit at an altitude of 15 km over the Bay of Bengal on Friday. The target missile mimicked an incoming enemy missile with a range of more than 2,...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 2:10 am
Warplane components fell off a US military aircraft near Tokyo on Wednesday. One of them hit a moving car on a highway in Kanagawa prefecture. The Defense Ministry's South Kanto Defense Bureau said it received a report on Wednesday afternoon from a railway employee who was working near a prefectural...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 2:02 am
The Pentagon proposes in its new budget to spend $1.2 billion for the first three NATO-version Northrop Grumman Corp. Global Hawk drones and three additional U.S. Navy-version drones, according to an official. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced this month it planned to buy five of the ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 10, 2012, 1:55 am
Engineers at the Navy Metalworking Center (NMC; Johnstown, PA, USA) are developing a prototype system for inspecting the tapers of main propulsion shafts for submarines and aircraft carriers. Power is applied to submarine and aircraft carrier main propulsion shafts through a tapered connection betwe...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 2:16 am
A senior Iranian commander underlined that the country's air defense unit is fully capable of detecting and repelling all aerial threats. "Iran's air defense will give a tough response to any threat with its various ground-to-air missiles and weapons, most of which have been upgraded or manufactured...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 2:08 am
Israeli air force air and missile defenses are to be combined and reorganized to better protect the entire nation. Under this doctrine, defense of Israel’s skies will combine all forces designated to intercept enemy aircraft with all the assets allocated to intercept missiles, regardless of range...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 2:03 am
Arms sales from China and Russia are fuelling serious human rights violations in Darfur, Amnesty International said in a new report today . These arms transfers highlight the urgent need to strengthen the existing ineffectual UN arms embargo and for governments to agree an effective arms trade ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 1:56 am
A China-made Pakistan air force jet today crashed while on a routine training mission in southwestern Balochistan province, killing the pilot. “A F-7PG PAF fighter aircraft, while on a routine training mission, crashed 24 nautical miles north of Quetta (the capital of Balochistan),” a PAF statem...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 1:51 am
NATO has decided to make permanent its Baltic air policing mission, in which larger member states patrol the region with their fighter jets on a rota basis. Media reported earlier today that the air policing mission was extended to 2018, but upon inquiry, the Defense Ministry said the new agreement ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 1:44 am
A total of five Russian military aircraft flew near Japanese territory on Wednesday, prompting the Air Self-Defense Force to scramble fighter jets, Defense Ministry officials said Thursday. The Russian planes consisted of two Tu-95 strategic bombers, two Su-24 reconnaissance planes and one A-50 airb...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 1:39 am
A three-day conventional weapons technical proficiency inspection (CWTPI) for VP-30 ordnance personnel supporting the P-8A Poseidon aircraft began Feb. 6 as the “Ordies” pursue their certifications to handle, load and deliver ordnance such as torpedoes, missiles and mines. VP-30 Commanding Offic...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 1:01 am
Kudos to the government for selecting a fighter aircraft for a depleted Indian Air Force, which currently fields barely 34 fighter squadrons (21 aircraft per squadron) against an assessed requirement of 45. While zeroing in on the French Rafale, New Delhi has said 'no thanks' to arms supply heavywei...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 12:53 am
The Russian Navy has decided against construction of Lada class submarines (Project 677) and will instead modernize existing subs, Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said in an interview with RIA Novosti. The design of the diesel-electric Lada class was completed at the end of the 1990s,...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 9, 2012, 12:48 am
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the commissioning for the submarine USS Mississippi will be in Pascagoula rather than Gulfport. “Due to concerns about insufficient channel depths in Gulfport … the new commissioning site for USS Mississippi is Pascagoula with a scheduled date of June 2,” Mabus, a...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 10:27 am
Any good armchair general with a good search engine and time on their hands can figure out in a hurry that the song and dance about Iran being unable to close the Strait if Hormuz for long is just a plain crock. Worse than a crock. Yet, this big Orwellian lie persists, so once again I have to set t...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 10:16 am
Although the U.S. focus remains on exerting diplomatic and economic pressure on Syria, the Pentagon and the U.S. Central Command have begun a preliminary internal review of U.S. military capabilities, CNN has learned. The options are being prepared in the event President Barack Obama were to call fo...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 9:45 am
The Moscow Commercial Court will hear on March 12 the lawsuit filed by Zvezda Far Eastern Shipyard to recover $2.21 million from the Pacific Fleet Management Department state enterprise and the Defense Ministry for nuclear submarine repairs, the court told the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 9:32 am
The UK is to order another Boeing C-17 strategic transport, with the acquisition to boost the Royal Air Force's fleet of the type to eight aircraft. Announced by prime minister David Cameron on 8 February, the purchase represents the potentially final addition to the UK's C-17 fleet, which plays a v...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 7:17 am
The stealth qualities of the futuristic F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on order for the Royal Australian Air Force are overrated and the plane's combat performance greatly exaggerated, a defence lobby group has claimed. The complaints by Air Power Australia, longtime critics of the $16 billion JSF acquis...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 7:03 am
BAE Systems has for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability for an unmanned aerial vehicle to recover to an airfield which is unfamiliar to its mission system. The demonstration – conducted at West Sale in Victoria – was conducted by a Kingfisher 2 UAV, and also saw the vehicle succ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 2:30 am
The Russian Air Force will receive more than 10 modernized Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers by 2020, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. According to official data, Russia has at least 16 Tu-160 aircraft in service. There are plans to increase their number to 30. “The Tu-160 in service with th...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 2:14 am
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced the successful flight of a second multi-mission jet-powered Predator® C Avenger® aircraft. “Th...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 2:02 am
Elbit Systems has expanded its portfolio of payloads with the recent launch of a Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 unmanned air system (UAS) hyperspectral payload with new revolutionary intelligence capabilities. Based on Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop’s proprietary research, the unique, innovative hyp...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 8, 2012, 1:52 am
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) scored another large defense contract on Tuesday to supply radar systems to a foreign customer for $150 million. The deal comes just a month after IAI announced that it had signed a $1.1 billion deal with an unnamed Asian country which will include the sale of aircr...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 11:33 am
Iran has begun mass production of an anti-ship cruise missile, state television's website said on Saturday. The Zafar missile, as it is dubbed in the report, "is a short-range, anti-ship cruise missile capable of destroying small- and medium-sized targets with high precision." It can be mounted on s...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:47 am
Russian strategic nuclear submarines will resume routine extended patrols in international waters around the world in June 2012, Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said. “On June 1 or a bit later we will resume constant patrolling of the world’s oceans by strategic nuclear submarines,...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:38 am
Big-ticket defence deals are rarely based on technical merit alone. The French-built Rafale isn’t the first – nor will it be the last – aircraft to be picked for geopolitical or strategic reasons. When diplomatic hardsell failed, did France and Britain choreograph the air war on Libya to showc...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:34 am
The US Navy is poised to launch the initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) process for its new Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance aircraft, with the airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system type expected to achieve initial operating capability status in the fourth ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:30 am
While the nation’s leaders work at overhauling the Navy organization, the Navy itself continues to order new ships. Last year’s persistent scandals over nuclear submarine contracts proved a hard nut to crack when assigning government contracts in 2011. For a time, the submarine scandals confuse...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:22 am
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began naval maneuvers Saturday in the latest show of force near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the critical Gulf oil tanker route that Tehran has threatened to close in retaliation for tougher Western sanctions. Plans for new Iranian war games in the Gulf have be...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:13 am
The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic to protect the Falkland Islands from the threat of Argentine military action. Prime Minister David Cameron has personally approved plans for one of the Navy’s most sophisticated Trafalgar-class submarines to sail to the region. Si...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 4:05 am
On 31 January 2012, the EUNAVFOR flagship ESPS PATIÑO conducted a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) with the NATO Flagship TGN GIRESUN watched by Russian observers before the exercise was repeated by the Russian Flagship Admiral Tributs with the Russian Fleet Tanker Pechenga with NATO and EU NAVFOR observ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 4, 2012, 3:52 am
Iran has launched a satellite into orbit, raising concern over its military ambitions. The satellite, Navid, or Gospel, was sent into space to collect data on weather conditions and monitor for natural disasters, the state news agency IRNA reported. This is the third small satellite that Iran has la...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 3, 2012, 10:24 am
Ramstein Air Base As part of a plan to consolidate its air command headquarters, NATO officials have decided to make Ramstein Air Base the hub for alliance missions that range from NATO’s air police operations to a growing missile defense program, according Headquarters Allied Air Command Ramstein...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 7:45 am
The Navy has just gotten $210 million worth of high speed cats for $35 million. The U.S. Maritime Administration reports that it has now transferred the former Hawaii super ferries Huakai and Alakai to the U.S. Navy and that the Navy provided $35 million to the Maritime Administration for both vesse...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 3:02 am
Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) staff are advancing the progressive application of new radar absorbing material to Australia's Collins class submarine fleet. The fitment program commenced in 2008, in collaboration with Mackay Consolidated Industries, a Melbourne-based rubber manuf...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:55 am
South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has issued a request for proposals for its F-X III fighter requirement, paving the way for the acquisition of around 60 fighters. The submission guidelines were issued at a meeting in Seoul yesterday. The contenders for the requirement ...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:43 am
The first Mistral class amphibious assault ship will be put in service with the Russian Navy in 36 months, Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Wednesday. Russia and France signed a $1.2-billion contract on two French-built Mistral class ships, including the transfer of sensitive te...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:38 am
The Eurofighter Typhoon cannot yet be ruled out as the choice for India's Multi-Role Combat Aircraft contract, BAE and government sources have said. Despite the announcement by the Indian government that Dassault's Rafale had been selected ahead of the Eurofighter on price grounds, making the French...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:26 am
GE Marine reports that its LM2500 gas turbine will be used in the Combined Diesel And Gas turbine (CODAG) propulsion system to power the United States Coast Guard’s (USCG) fifth National Security Cutter. “We are pleased that our GE LM2500 gas turbine has been selected to power the fifth United S...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:20 am
After more than 15 years, NATO will finally grant approval to buy five Global Hawk Block 40s to help plug the gaps in the alliance's intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance that grew so glaring during the Libya operation. In addition to that important news for the 28 nations that comprise NATO...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:13 am
Boeing today announced that it has started production of the new Distributed Targeting System (DTS) for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter. DTS provides enhanced targeting capability for the Super Hornet. It is part of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18E/F Network Centric Warfare Upgrades program and t...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:07 am
The Russian Defense Ministry is planning to dispose of three million tons of ammunition by the end of 2013 because its service life expired, Deputy Defense Minister, General Dmitry Bulgakov, said on Wednesday. He said about 6 mln tons of ammunition are kept at 140 munitions depots around the country...
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Ko S. posted an article on Naval Open Source Intelligence - Feb 2, 2012, 2:04 am
APA reports quoting the Russian newspapers that one of the Mi-35M helicopters produced in Rosvertol’s plant in Rostov-on-Don was tested last week. Other helicopters are still constructed. Azerbaijan purchased 4 Mi-35M helicopters from Russia last December. Mi-35 is a modernized version of Mi-24 de...
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