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Military-Today.com - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 22:20

German IRIS-T SL Air Defense Missile System
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Highlights - Operational support to women, peace and security through the CSDP missions - Subcommittee on Security and Defence

In the framework of the Gender equality week, SEDE Members will hold on 26 October an exchange of views on the operational support to women, peace and security through the EU's CSDP missions and operations. Since the adoption of the UNSCR resolution 1325, which marked a milestone in recognizing the essential role of women in maintaining and promoting peace and security, numerous initiatives have been taken on the EU level to systematically integrate a gender perspective in all of the Union's external actions. During the debate in SEDE, three advisors deployed in different missions and operations - EUAM Iraq, EUTM Mozambique and EUAM Ukraine - will share their experiences, and provide factual overviews of the main achievements, best practices and areas where further improvements are needed.
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EDA project seeks lighter ballistic armour

EDA News - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 12:22

Ballistic, or bullet proof, armour is used to protect vehicles against different threats. But it also makes them heavier, especially when seeking to protect against more powerful weapons. Taken together, armour and the vehicle structure constitute more than half of vehicle’s weight, requiring more fuel and potentially making it harder to manoeuvre.

In search of a lighter armour, the European Defence Agency (EDA) launched a project on 20 October 2022 to use new advances in metallic materials for ballistic steels.

Known as the Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Auxetic Structures and Materials for Lightweight Armour, (AMALIA), the project aims to enhance the performance of ballistic and blast protections using auxetic structures, which become thicker when stretched or thinner when compressed. Making use of specific alloys developed for ballistic applications, this material can be tailored for the additive manufacturing process.

In response to a violent impact, the auxetic materials have the advantage of being denser in the strike zone and allow a higher energy absorption, offering more protection.

The AMALIA project, costing slightly less than € 5 million, is funded by seven EDA Member States (Italy, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovenia), led by RINA Consulting - Centro Sviluppo Materiali.

The state-of-the-art structures are still mainly at a theoretical level, involving numerical simulations. Several studies have assessed the positive effect of these structures on energy absorption, suggesting that auxetic structures can be used for protective equipment, including armour for military vehicles. However, due to the manufacturing difficulties of such structures, not many 3D metallic structures have been developed.

Some examples of parts with auxetic structures are made in aluminium, stainless steel and titanium alloys (EBM technology) but are still on a small scale.

 

 

The AMALIA project aims to explore technical issues related to the difficulties of manufacturing such auxetic structures using traditional manufacturing methods. Material development will also have an important role in producing alloys specifically developed for the additive manufacturing process by means of thermodynamic, kinetic and solidification tools.






The materials will be investigated to better understand the response of auxetic materials to static and dynamic impact loading conditions at different strains, an aspect not yet sufficiently explored.

 

 

 

 

The project will rely on extensive simulations, in order to test the ballistic properties of new auxetic structure topologies and fine tune the process parameters for the actual structures production. 

 

 

 

 

 

The properties of the additive manufactured part will be improved through gas atomisation, a process aiming at synthesizing high-quality metal powders with controlled particle sizes.

 

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UNITED STATES/IRAQ : Amar Zahid involved in case after case between US and Iraqi telecom industry

Intelligence Online - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 08:00
The case between Iraqi Amar Zahid, head of Luxembourg-based firm Alfa Consult and US intelligence technology provider TIC International in
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UNITED STATES : Avril Haines, an atypical professional, steers US intelligence transformation

Intelligence Online - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 08:00
Avril Haines, the US's first woman Director of National Intelligence (DNI), has made employee diversity a priority of the intelligence community,
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CHINA : Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' bar makes for Politburo observation box

Intelligence Online - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 08:00
If you're lucky enough to find a taxi driver who can take you to 5 Jianguomennei Street in Beijing, you'll
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UNITED STATES/ROMANIA : Romanian media magnate leads anti-corruption crusade in US

Intelligence Online - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 08:00
Romanian media magnate Bobby Paunescu, whose full name is George Marius Paunescu, continues his lobbying crusade in the US. He
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UNITED STATES/UZBEKISTAN : Joseph Quinn Martin, former Tashkent PR who became a champion of Washington business relations

Intelligence Online - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 08:00
Used to shuttling between the United States and Central Asia, American businessman and consultant Joseph Quinn Martin will fly to
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FRANCE/ISRAEL/CHAD : NSO's man in Chad, Abdellatif Ramadan, scouts for new French contacts

Intelligence Online - Fri, 21/10/2022 - 08:00
With Israel tightening its control over exports of dual-use goods, Israeli cyber-intelligence companies are turning away from Africa, forcing local
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Press release - Burkina Faso: MEPs demand immediate return to constitutional order

In a resolution adopted on Thursday, MEPs condemn the military coup in Burkina Faso and express concern about allegations of human rights violations.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP

QATAR : Former Indian cyber privateer Rajat Khare is helping Qatar keep the football World Cup safe

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
As it finalises its preparation for the FIFA World Cup, which will take place in Doha from 20 November to 18 December, Qatar owes a great deal to Rajat Khare, the former heading of Indian cyber intelligence company Appin Security,
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AUSTRALIA/RUSSIA/UNITED KINGDOM : FiveCast and Operation Zero

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
Adelaide/London: Titmuss and Patterson join OSINT expert FiveCastFormer UK National Crime Agency (NCA) operative Maggie Titmuss has recently joined Australian
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France/Germany/UAE : France counts on Almheiri to help it overcome German competition in hydrogen sector

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
Emirati climate change and environment minister Mariam Almheiri has been chosen by Paris to advance France's influence in the UAE and,
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FRANCE/INDONESIA/QATAR : Qatar's French Mirage head for Jakarta

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
According to our sources, before flying to Washington to negotiate an order of F-15 fighter planes (IO, 18/10/22), Indonesia's defence
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YEMEN : Houthis brainstorm new tactics as ceasefire ends

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
With help from their sponsor Iran, Yemen's Houthi rebels have been mobilising their troops now that the truce held since
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KAZAKHSTAN : Nazarbayev's former allies fear investigations as elections loom

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
A number of Kazakh officials, under investigation from the country's internal intelligence service, the KNB, following the popular uprisings in
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UNITED STATES : Benchmark Mineral feeds US intel in rare earths face-off with China

Intelligence Online - Thu, 20/10/2022 - 08:00
Eager to shift towards economic-related intelligence on China, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has begun to receive data from Benchmark
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UNITED STATES : Leaked investor pitch deck reveals political advocacy plans of New Founding, an informal extension of pro-Trump Claremont Institute

Intelligence Online - Wed, 19/10/2022 - 08:00
The California-based Claremont Institute, which emerged as the most influential right-wing think tank of the Trump era, is continuing to thrive during Joe Biden's presidency and is solidifying its reputation as "the intellectual basis for Trump," in the words of
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UAE/FINLAND : Finland's Bittium behind Edge's new Katim secure phone

Intelligence Online - Wed, 19/10/2022 - 08:00
Unveiled last week at the International Exhibition of National Security and Resilience (ISNR) in Abu Dhabi, Edge Group's Katim X-2 secure telephone, which
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