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The operation of the Ilva steelworks must be suspended if it poses serious and significant threats to the environment and human health

A magyar polgári repülés történetének egyik kevéssé ismert fejezetét a kalibráló repülőgépekkel írták. Volt idő, amikor Ferihegyről naponta szállt fel egy ilyen gép, hogy személyzete a fedélzetén telepített eszköz és egy földi csapat segítségével az útvonalrepüléshez vagy a leszálláshoz használt rádiónavigációs berendezések rendszeres ellenőrzését elvégezhesse.

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Ils sont originaires des Balkans, vivent en France et s'inquiètent du risque d'une victoire de l'extrême droite parce qu'ils se souviennet de ce que le nationalisme a produit dans l'ancienne Yougoslavie. Témoignages.

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Ils sont originaires des Balkans, vivent en France et s'inquiètent du risque d'une victoire de l'extrême droite parce qu'ils se souviennet de ce que le nationalisme a produit dans l'ancienne Yougoslavie. Témoignages.

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Americas Austal USA, Mobile won a $47 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, and cost-only modification for Littoral Combat Ships class design support, and integrated data and product model environment support. Work will be performed in Mobile, Alabama  and Pittsfield, Massachusetts and is expected to be completed by June 2025. Fiscal 2019 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of will be obligated at time of award. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity. Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks will deliver over 1,500 Zetros logistics trucks to the Canadian Armed Forces. The delivery includes 1,000 light Zetros (two-axle vehicles with all-wheel drive, 4×4) and approximately 500 heavy Zetros (four-axle vehicles with all-wheel drive, 8×8). The vehicles will be used for off-road transportation of goods and personnel.  “This contract reflects the level of confidence one of the largest NATO countries has in our partner network – in our experience, reliability and technical competence,” Head of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks Franziska Cusumano said. Middle East & Africa According to Defense News, Virginia-based defense contractor Artis is forming a joint venture with the United Arab Emirates’ company Bin Hilal Enterprises to offer its system overseas. Artis and BHE signed a memorandum of understanding the Eurosatory international […]

Afghan Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has had a string of meetings in recent weeks. After talks in Kabul in mid-May with the European Union's chargée d'affaires for Afghanistan, Raffaela Iodice (IO, 03/06/24), he received Qatar's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin

Finnish geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) company Iceye's research and development teams have been busy since early June developing a high-altitude drone

On the basis of a memo from the intelligence services identifying risks of economic interference, the ministry of the armed

Deteriorating relations between Paris and Baku, driven further apart by Armenian Defence Minister Suren Papikyan's signing of an order for French

Police commissioner Muriel Sobry, who has been head of security and safety at France Télévisions for the past six years,

Soon after the arrival in early June of consultant Elias Gerasoulis and his client list, lobbying firm Moran Global Strategies

Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy’s idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet. Inspired by successful experiments like Denmark’s Standard Flex ships, the US Navy’s $35+ billion “Littoral Combat Ship” program was intended to create a new generation of affordable surface combatants that could operate in dangerous shallow and near-shore environments, while remaining affordable and capable throughout their lifetimes. It hasn’t worked that way. In practice, the Navy hasn’t been able to reconcile what they wanted with the capabilities needed to perform primary naval missions, or with what could be delivered for the sums available. The LCS program has changed its fundamental acquisition plan 4 times since 2005, and canceled contracts with both competing teams during this period, without escaping any of its fundamental issues. Now, the program looks set to end early. This public-access FOCUS article offer a wealth of research material, alongside looks at the LCS program’s designs, industry teams procurement plans, military controversies, budgets and contracts. LCS: Concept & Needs LCS-I missions (click to view full) Ultimately, the US Navy is […]

A chart of current missile types threatening mostly civilian vessels passing through the Red Sea.

Policies towards addressing anti-ship attacks in the Red Sea did not prevent some aggressive acts against civilian vessels recently that resulted in the loss of lives and entire ships. The pin prick deterrence via responding to threats after they occur is not sufficiently effective in addressing the issue, and further passive policies toward the eternal threats against international shipping need to be met with the same proactive vigour that had met such threats in the past. The focus on component exports for weapons seems to target more on the source of electronic production, where there is little that can be done militarily, as opposed to targeting the evident assembly plants for such weapons that would be a more accessible and easier mission to accomplish.

Anti-ship missiles that are being used in the current attacks mirror Soviet anti-ship missile technology from the 1970s and their future variants that work in a networked setting with radars and other electronic equipment. While targeting land radars is needed and has been part of the deterrence, the focus on ship based guidance weapons and radars should have been of top priority once the first missiles targeted international shipping. While military vessels have little issue downing those weapons, to fire Anti-Ship missiles at civilians from all over the world (weapons designed to sink a Frigate in one or two strikes) is like opening fire on an innocent crowd of people, and is clearly a crime against civilian vessels with intent to murder their international crew. Such an Act of War should be met with at least a proportional response, even if it means attacking the radar ships home port, as a lacking response has already encouraged more conflict.

The added threats of sea and air drones designed to Kamikaze civilian vessels is a new threat that is rapidly being addressed as new threats create new responses. A possible evolution of against assault drones could mirror the response to the first combat airplanes. As the first planes were used to bomb trenches in the First World War, the fighter plane was developed as a necessity to challenge and intercept the unchallenged bomber threat. A type of Interceptor Drone might be a solution our great grandfathers would have come up with, a practical solution to their past threats and new threats we are facing today. What was true back then as it is true now, that an assault on international shipping must be met with a swift, overwhelming, and effective response, as has been done in the past and will always be required.

Every society that has faced conflict has learned a similar lesson, that if you do not intend to counter threats, there will be more conflict. In the end, an absence of deterrence will lead to many more young citizens going to war in the near future. If there is an absence of strategy to challenge the source of arms and decision makers pick and choose grievances over components, as opposed to eliminating the actual missile production facilities, they are just slightly delaying the inevitable larger conflict.

24 juin 2024 Safran Safran annonce être entré en discussions exclusives en vue d’acquérir 100 % du capital de Preligens, l’un des leaders de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) dédiée aux industries de l’aérospatial et de la défense, pour une valeur d’entreprise...

L'extrême droite croate n'est pas difficile. Elle soutient à la fois le parti serbe pro-russe Dveri, qui rêve de reconquérir les territoires croates, et le parti irrédentiste de Giorgia Meloni. Tous fraternisent dans les mêmes réseaux pour promouvoir leurs idées radicales au niveau mondial.

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Americas The US Coast Guard has taken delivery of its 57th Sentinel-class fast response cutter from Bollinger Shipyards in Key West, Florida. The USCGC Florence Finch (WPC-1157) is part of a US Department of Defense effort begun in 2008 to replace the service’s Island class commissioned in the 1980s. WPC-1157 will sail as the second of three Sentinel ships to be homeported in Sector Columbia River, a coast guard division responsible for security, maritime law enforcement, environmental protection, and rescue along the Oregon Coast.   Top Aces Inc., a leading provider of advanced adversary air (ADAIR) training, has successfully completed its first training mission in Canada utilizing the newly introduced A-4 Advanced Aggressor Fighter (AAF). This milestone marks the official commencement of AAF service delivery under an amendment to Top Aces’ Contracted Airborne Training Services (CATS) contract with the Canadian government, announced in December 2023. Middle East & Africa Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the country needs ammunition from the United States in “the war for its existence,” directly addressing the White House after it criticized him for complaining about arms deliveries related to the Gaza war. “I am prepared to suffer personal attacks provided that Israel receives the […]

Seeking to strike the correct balance between its support for Israel against Hamas and its concerns over the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, the Joe Biden administration is increasingly relying on the dissemination of intelligence among a broad community

The US Senate is turning up the pressure on the US Space Force (USSF) to take GMTI (Ground Moving Target