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Brazil Defence and Security Report Q2 2012
As Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff completes her first full year in power, the country shows every sign of retaining its place as the regional superpower in Latin America, as 2012 unfolds. This is helped in no small measure by the size of the country’s armed forces. These currently comprise around 305,000 personnel spread across the [...]
Philippine Navy in standoff with Chinese ships
The Philippines said its biggest warship was locked in a standoff on Wednesday with two Chinese surveillance ships that were blocking the arrest of Chinese fishermen in the disputed South China Sea. The incident is one of the most high-profile flare-ups in recent years between the two countries over their competing territorial claims to parts [...]
Pirates, Beware: Navy’s Smart Robocopters Will Spy You in the Crowd
Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer, officials said April 5. Called the Multi-Mode Sensor Seeker (MMSS), the sensor is a mix of high-definition cameras, mid-wave infrared sensors and laser-radar (LADAR) technology. It will be [...]
Lockheed Wins Navy Contract for MH-60R/S Cockpits and Integrated Systems
The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.05 billion, five-year contract to provide more than 200 digital cockpits and integrated mission systems and sensors for the Navy MH-60R “Romeo” and MH-60S “Sierra” helicopters. “U.S. Navy crews operating the 300-plus MH-60 Romeo and Sierra helicopters already in the fleet understand just how critical these aircraft are [...]
Navy’s Newest Squadron Prepares for New F-35 Fighters
Navy personnel are busy preparing to teach the next generation of Sailors how to work with and fly the newest military aircraft, the F-35C Lightening II Joint Strike Fighter, as Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101) readies for its stand-up ceremony on Eglin Air Force Base May 1. The F-35 is a single seat, multi-role fighter [...]
US keeps carriers near Gulf ahead of Iran talks
The United States is keeping the pressure on Iran with the presence of two aircraft carriers close to the Gulf ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks with Tehran this week. “There are currently two carrier strike groups in the US 5th Fleet area of operations,” Lieutenant Commander John Fage, a navy spokesman, said Monday. [...]
UK Type 45 Air Defense Destroyer Heads for Falklands
One of the Royal Navy’s newest and most powerful warships is to set sail for the Falkland Islands a day before the 30th anniversary of the British task force setting sail for war. HMS Dauntless, the second of the Navy’s hi-tech Type 45 air defence destroyers, will leave its home port of Portsmouth Naval Base [...]
Navy’s New Robotics Lab Will Speed Technology to the Total Force
Scientists based in the nation’s capital are stepping into the desert and rainforest to run experiments on autonomous systems without having to set foot outside the Navy’s new robotics laboratory, officials said April 2. The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR), located at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington D.C., is the first addition [...]
Russian destroyer heads for Syria port: report
A Russian navy destroyer will dock at the Syrian port of Tartus in the coming days after setting out on a planned mission to the region, agencies quoted military officials as saying Monday. The Smetlivy guided-missile destroyer sailed for the Mediterranean from its Black Sea base of Sevastopol over the weekend and will shortly arrive [...]
