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India's Second Kalvari-class Submarine 'INS Khanderi' Ready For Sea Trials
June 1, 2017 @ 11:47 AMIndias second conventional submarine, INS Khanderi, built at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd will start sea trials this week at Mumbai coast. INS Khanderi is slated to begin its long sea trials from Thursday,
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Growing Complexity Of Military Assets Expected To Fuel Virtual Reality Market
May 31, 2017 @ 02:13 PMGrowing complexity in assembly and maintenance of military assets combined with a shortage of skilled engineers is expected to drive the market for virtual reality/augmented reality products. A report from Digi-Capital predicts that the market for virtual and augmented reality will be worth $120 billion by 2020
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International Defence Firms Complicit in Nigeria’s Massive Procurement Scam: Report
May 26, 2017 @ 01:55 PMKey international suppliers of Nigerian military hardware are facilitating fraud by agreeing to non-competitive or unorthodox contracts, reports Transparency International (TI)
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Boeing, DARPA To Jointly Develop New Experimental Supersonic Spaceplane
May 25, 2017 @ 01:07 PMBoeing and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are collaborating to design, build and test a technology demonstration vehicle for the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program. Boeing will be given $146 million (£112 million) to build the spaceplane to a tight specification so it can carry small satellites into orbit at the drop of a hat
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Nine Russian Missile Regiments Rearmed With Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ‘Yars’
May 25, 2017 @ 09:36 AMRussian Armed Forces are being rearmed with modern Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems. Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu said that nine regiments have already been armed with such systems, TASS reports
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Tapestry Solutions To Support US 7th Army Training Command With Mission Command...
May 23, 2017 @ 04:15 PMBoeings Tapestry Solutions has won a $58 million contract to provide mission command training support services for the US Armys 7th Training Command. Under the contract, Tapestry will continue to support live, virtual and constructive training exercises at the Joint Multinational Simulation Center (JMSC) located in Grafenwoehr, Germany; its satellites in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and Vicenza, Italy; the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) in Hohenfels, Germany; and Theater Security Cooperation exercises throughout NATO
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Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 Flight Trials Completed In Norway
May 23, 2017 @ 11:51 AMSchiebels Unmanned Air System (UAS) Camcopter S-100 performed flight trials to the Norwegian Coastguard, Navy, Airforce, Coastal Administration, Police Directorate as well as other authorities during demanding trials at Andøya Test Center (ATC). During the event held in Northern Norway, approximately 300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, the CAMCOPTER S-100 performed a series of challenging demonstration flights in the second week of May, the company announced Tuesday
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Israel Unveils New 122mm Rocket System For Special Forces
May 23, 2017 @ 09:30 AMIsrael Military Industries unveiled a new precision rocket system for the special forces to operate in urban environments covering distances up to 27 miles. The ACCULAR system was developed in response to the needs of special forces who may operate beyond the range of traditional artillery fire support
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Danish OMT, Indonesia MOU on Naval Ship Designing
May 22, 2017 @ 03:33 PMDanish company Odense Maritime Technology (OMT) signed MoU with the Indonesian National Naval Design Centre on cooperation in naval ship designing on May 21. From 18 – 19 May, Denmarks Rear Admiral Frank Trojahn, visited Indonesia together with a delegation of Danish companies within the naval sector,
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DARPA Works On Simplifying Design Process For Unconventional Defense Systems
May 18, 2017 @ 04:43 PMThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing mathematical tools and methods to tackle the challenges associated with designing complex military systems. The US defense research agency's Enabling Quantification of Uncertainty in Physical Systems (EQUiPS) program has advanced the field of uncertainty quantification, or UQ, which focuses on methods to accommodate all of the different factors that may affect predictive accuracy in designing the military model
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