“This really was one of the higher priorities the [Indian] navy had, to get these aircraft delivered,” Tom Kane, director of Sikorsky’s Naval Helicopter Programs, says. “I requested that the aircraft be made available on an accelerated basis.”
By Paul McLearyFuture inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
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WASHINGTON: India has finalized a $900 million deal with Sikorsky for 24 MH-60R helicopters that will help India’s navy spot and track Chinese submarines, drones and surface ships that are operating more frequently in the Indian Ocean. The pact was initially approved by the State Department in April 2019, and was finally inked in recent…
By Paul McLeary
“Russia has become one of the world’s greatest perpetrators of electronic counterspace warfare, jamming and spoofing PNT and communications satellite signals in conflict zones, nearby territories, and within its own borders,” CSIS says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We have seen countries around the world leap at the chance to obtain high-tech, low cost defensive capabilities only to see their significant investments crumble and rust in their hands.”
By Paul McLeary
A new system will retrain 20,000 DoD employees to work within the National Defense Strategy, while shifting focus to new areas of the world.
By Paul McLeary
The Predator B’s weapons, avionics and comms suites will all need to be specially configured to meet the needs of India’s military.
By Theresa Hitchens
Indian claims of no threat from ASAT test debris is “nonsense.”
By Theresa Hitchens
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
The India ASAT test could have provided an opportunity for leadership from the Trump administration to help prevent the creation of space debris.
By Theresa Hitchens
Much of the debris will burn up in the atmosphere in weeks — but the potential for a global arms race in space won’t disappear so soon.
By Colin Clark
Another US ally — and host of a critical Middle Eastern air base — is considering buying a high-tech Russian missile system. What can Washington do about it?
By Paul McLeary
In the next six to 12 months, country after country is deciding what companies get to build new 5G networks. India and Italy remain open to a Huawei bid, at least for now; Britain, Canada, and Germany are on the fence; while France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand have said no.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Boeing, Lockheed, Dassault Aviation of France, the European Eurofighter consortium, Sweden’s Saab, and United Aircraft Corporation of Russia are all jockeying for position for an Indian fighter contract worth $15 billion for 110 planes, and an $8 billion navy program of around 60 aircraft.
By Paul McLeary
“Before I took office,” IAI chairman Harel Locker said at a recent conference, “(I) realized that if the company did not change, it could collapse within a few years.”
By Arie Egozi
It’s one of the fundamental questions about China and its future place in the world: does the great civilization still view the world through the traditional lens of the Middle Kingdom, or does the world face a new China, unbound by many of the structures under which it has operated for most of the last…
By Dickson Yeo