Defence`s Feeds

General Qamar Javed Bajwa is to replace General Raheel Sharif as the Pakistan Army's chief of staff when the latter's three-year term expires on 29 November. Gen Bajwa was appointed on 26th November by Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, in a smooth change of guard at what some regard as the

Israeli company RADA is replacing its CEO, the company announced on 28 November. Zvi Alon, who had run the company for 10 years, is set to be replaced by Dov Sella. Sella is an alumnus of Elbit, but has been with RADA since 2003 serving in several senior positions including COO. RADA produces a

French SARPAC Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher

Tenmat / RAILKO will be present at Exponaval 2016 at Base Aeronaval Concon, Vina del Mar from 29 November - 2 December.

Swedish Miniman Single-Shot Anti-Tank Recoilless Rifle

The US Naval Air Systems Command has awarded a $267.25m-worth two-year logistics support contract modification to Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office (JPO).

Thales has been awarded a $100m design and pre-production contract to upgrade sonar systems installed on-board the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Collins-class type 471 diesel-electric submarines.

The French Navy Fleet Support Department has contracted DCNS for the routine maintenance of the Le Triomphant-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs).

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first three AS565 MBe Panther helicopters to industrial partner PT Dirgantara Indonesia during a ceremony held at its headquarters in Marignane, France.

Russian AKS-47 Assault Rifle

On 28 November, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence will hold an exchange of views with Jean-Louis De Brouwer, Director for Europe, Eastern Neighbourhood and Middle East, DG ECHO and Kawa Hassan, Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, EastWest Institute. The exchange of views will provide members of the committee a comprehensive picture of the ongoing Mosul offensive, analysing both its political and military implications as well as its humanitarian consequences.
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On 28 November, the Subcommittee will exchange views on the security situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from the US perspective with Ambassador John E. Herbst, The Atlantic Council, Director of the Dinu Particiu Eurasia Center, Washington.
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On 28 November, SEDE will hold an exchange of views with Prof. Dr. Luis Simón, Research Professor, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the possibilities offered by the Lisbon Treaty and its implications for the Common Security and Defence Policy.
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The Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) has successfully tested Kongsberg Defence Systems’ latest one-shot mine disposal weapon system, Minesniper MkIII, aboard the RNoN’s mine countermeasures (MCM) vessel.

The US Navy’s tenth Independence-class littoral combat ship, USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), has successfully completed its acceptance trials, marking a final significant milestone before its delivery.

Mission Ready Services has completed development of a next-generation protective combat shirt, ballistic base layer (BBL), for the US Marine Corps (USMC), which is intended to provide soldiers with better protection and mobility.

It’s that time of year again. For those of you celebrating American Thanksgiving: if you’re deep-frying your turkey (otherwise known as “doing it right”), be safe. Hundreds of years ago, boiling oil was a weapon we would have covered. Treat it accordingly. Common tips include making 100% sure that adding the turkey to the oil will not cause an overflow or near-overflow. The turkey has displacement, and on top of that, oil will boil up a bit when the moisture of the turkey skin hits it. So test displacement first to figure out the fill line, then make sure the bird is fully thawed, and pat that bird dry inside and out. Fire Marshals also advise people to set up the fryer away from one’s house, on a flat, non-wooden surface, and have oil-rated fire extinguishers handy as you monitor the frying. Keep your home safe, and don’t forget to take precautions for yourself and your family, too.

Yummly offers some options for your leftovers, although around our house, the favorite use for leftovers is turkey tetrazzini!

DID offers thanks to all of our readers, and to all American and allied soldiers in uniform; we won’t be publishing again until Monday.

The power of legitimacy is increasingly invoked by scholars, practitioners, and donors as a crucial prerequisite for any international peacebuilding project. This short article disenchants the almost magical powers accorded to legitimacy via three research findings: First, it shows the causal mechanism behind legitimacy’s impact; second, legitimacy works only in certain contexts and situations; third,

The Executive Directors of four key European agencies dealing with security and defence - the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the EU institutions’ permanent Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-EU) and the European Defence Agency (EDA) - met today (23 November) at the EDA premises to identify and discuss cooperative opportunities in the field of cyber security and defence.

In his opening remarks, EDA Chief Executive Jorge Domecq recalled that the 2014 EU Cyber Defence Policy Framework, adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council in November 2014, explicitly encouraged the four agencies to enhance their cooperation in a number of areas, for instance to develop common cyber security and defence competence profiles based on international best practices and certification used by EU Institutions, to work on public sector cyber security and defence organisational and technical standards for use in the defence and security sector and to develop a working mechanism to exchange best practice on exercises, training and other areas of possible civilian-military synergy.

“In the spirit of the EU Global Strategy and its implementation plan on security and defence, EU entities need to think cross-sectoral. We need to joint forces where appropriate in order to anticipate the security challenges and adapt to Member States’ expectations. And nowhere does this better apply than in the Cyber domain”, Mr Domecq stated.

 

Task force

The aim of the meeting was not yet to agree on a list of concrete projects to work on but to brainstorm and discuss possible options for future cooperation.

A joint task force was set up to further discuss first initial ideas exchanged at today’s meeting; it will report back by spring 2017 with an in-depth assessment and concrete recommendations for cooperation projects.

The next Executive Directors’ meeting of the four agencies is scheduled for May or June 2017.

 

More information:

• EDA supports Operation Sophia with Cyber Awareness Seminars (webnews November 2016)
• Cyber Defence (EDA project page)
• Cyber defence factsheet

North Korean Type 68 Assault Rifle