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Navy League 2018: US Navy’s MERLIN ground robot to begin walking by mid-year

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 04:00
Researchers with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) expect to have a quadruped robot balancing on its own and taking its first steps by mid-2018. The goal of the Meso-scale Robotic Locomotion Initiative (MERLIN) is to develop a small robot that a marine could carry in a backpack and deploy to
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Leonardo advances Kronos DBR development

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
Work on Leonardo’s naval Kronos dual X-band and C-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar programme is progressing, with testing and production timelines for the Italian Navy’s new 6,270 tonne Pattugliatore Polivalente d'Altura (PPA) multipurpose offshore patrol vessels
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Navy League 2018: US Navy sees reduced AMDR risk with Aegis testing

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
Thanks to early testing involving AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) components and the Aegis combat system, the US Navy (USN) is seeing risks being reduced for the programme, said Captain Casey Moton, programme manager for guided-missile destroyer (DDG) 51 ships. “The back end
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Navy League 2018: US squares off against China for Pacific influence

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
China is making greater inroads in the Pacific with “chequebook diplomacy” and other means of influence – in some cases effectively locking the United States out of certain countries when it comes to matters of transnational crime tracking or enforcement, said US Navy Captain
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Navy League 2018: USMC Pacific distribution strains logistics

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
As the US Marine Corps (USMC) distributes its forces more widely throughout the Pacific, the moves are creating more challenges for logistics needed to maintain readiness and related resources, said Gayle Von Eckartsberg, director of the Pacific Division at the Headquarters Marine Corps for policy,
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New Board for Denel

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
South Africa’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, announced the replacement of the entire board of the state-owned defence group Denel on 9 April. Setting out his reasons, Gordhan pointed to Denel’s success between 2010 and 2015: an average growth of 15% per annum; an order
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SLAM-ER production to be restarted for Saudi air force

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
Boeing has been awarded a USD64 million contract to restart its production line for Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), the Department of Defense announced on 10 April. Expected to be completed by March 2019, the contract also covers the redesign of obsolete, nearly obsolete,
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Threat to French interests indicates jihadists' intent to exploit ongoing social unrest in Tunisia despite likely low capability

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 03:00
Event Jihadist group Okba ibn Nafaa Brigade, an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) affiliate active in Tunisia, released a statement on 7 April calling on North African Muslims to fight their governments and for attacks on French interests in Tunisia using "any means possible",
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Top 10 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems

Military-Today.com - Wed, 11/04/2018 - 01:55

Top 10 Most Powerful Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
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