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Cyber scourge: Battling Advanced Persistent Threats

Key Points APTs, considered one of the most serious cyber threats, are typically more targeted than other types of cyber attack The threats are considered highly relevant for armed forces, with militaries facing many of the same cyber vulnerabilities as other users There are varying definitions

DSME hands over Thailand’s first DW3000 frigate

Key Points The Royal Thai Navy has received its first South Korean-built multipurpose frigate The vessel will bolster the country’s anti-submarine capabilities and is on track for commissioning in 2019 South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has delivered

Production of Australia’s Hawkei vehicle hit by reliability issues

Reliability issues continue to delay the start of full-rate production of the Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light for the Australian Army, Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty has disclosed. In a statement included in an 18 December report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) on

Bundeswehr releases report on July 2017 Tiger helicopter crash in Mali

The Bundeswehr announced on its website on 12 December that it submitted a report to the German parliament's defence committee on the 26 July 2017 crash of a Tiger combat helicopter supporting the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), which killed the two pilots.

NAVSEA funds Raytheon for development of SM-2 Block IIIC active upgrade

The US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has awarded Raytheon Missile Systems a sole-source contract for engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) of the new Block IIIC variant of the Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) anti-air warfare missile. Being developed under the SM-2 Improvement programme,

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  Annual Defence Report 2018: Middle East & Africa

  Syria has stabilised, but tensions remain on the front lines of the areas of influence carved out by external powers. Meanwhile, the war in Yemen has come into sharper focus, with the US using Iran's support for the rebels to bolster its efforts to isolate Tehran even as the growing civilian death toll threatens arms exports to the Arab Gulf countries. Jeremy Binnie reports
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  Beyond the horizon: NSM missile homes in on Harpoon replacement market

  Success in the US Navy's Over-the-Horizon Weapon System competition is set to re-energise Kongsberg's efforts to grow sales of its Naval Strike Missile worldwide. Richard Scott reports
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  If you want peace, prepare for war: Chinese land forces modernisation

  China's military modernisation began in the mid-1990s after Beijing realised that its military was incapable of participating in a modern conflict such as the 1991 Gulf War. Sam Cranny-Evans reports on the extent to which China's land forces have been transformed by the process
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Mk 20 Electro-Optical Sensor System (EOSS)

Type Naval Fire-Control System (FCS). Development In 2005, following a competitive procurement process, Kollmorgen Electro-Optical (acquired by L-3 Communications in February 2012 and now operating as L-3 KEO) was chosen to provide the US Navy (USN) with an EOSS as part of the CG-47