India and Israel – Joint Medium-Range Naval SAM Development: Following in the footsteps of a February announcement of joint development of a naval long-range surface-to-air missile comes the announcement that a medium-range variant will also be jointly developed. As with the long-range variant, the MR version will be based on the Israeli-developed Barak…
File this one under "and you were expecting maybe something different?" Outgoing DepSecDef for Asia & Pacific Affairs, Richard Lawless remarked upon the glacial pace of mil-to-mil contacts with the Chinese military during a final press conference late last month. During the course of that press conference he highlighted several concerns, noting that a continued…
North Korea to shutdown nuclear plant by July 2007. Russia’s Interfax news agency is reporting this AM that North korea will be shutting down and sealing up its controversial nuclear plant by July. This is the plant that serves as North Korea’s main nuclear reactor and source for weapons grade plutonium. The development comes on…
I continue to be amazed (though I really shouldn’t by now) at the volume of email that is generated over the course of a generic three-day weekend. This past weekend was no exception to that rule either – especially as the miserly mailbox sizes set by the sysadmins is, well, miserly, one must spend the…
Maybe it was this… or this …. perhaps some few noses got out of joint over this …. but the end result is this: … except some animals seem to be more equal than others… So are we feeling chastened? Regretful perhaps? Naw, blogging means never having to say you’re sorry Oh yeah, and to…
The report is available for reading/download (PDF) here. Don’t go expecting to find deep insight into tactics/doctrine — rather gives a general look at the organization, training, equipping, administration and routine operation of the PLAN. A worthwhile companion volume to the ONI report might be this one, a recently updated (7 Feb 2007) Congressional Research…
Missile and other news and notes from around the ‘sphere: MANPADs vs Helos Lots of concern/interest in countering the MANPAD (MAN Portable Air Defense) missiles in the wake of increased helo loses these past couple of weeks. While the CH-46 loss that has gained so much coverage appears to have been mechanical in nature (Update:…
Americans Demand Military Response After Chinese Shoot Down DirecTV Satellite WASHINGTON, DC—A citizens’ group presented a petition signed by nearly 75 million Americans to key members of Congress Monday, demanding the United States take immediate military action against China after the Communist nation shot down a DirecTV satellite last week. “This is a blatant attack…
Continuing the themes from yesterday’s post: a. India plans aerospace military command to oversee space-based assets: In yet more fallout from China’s ASAT test comes the announcement from India that they intend to “create an aerospace command to control and protect satellites and spacecraft orbiting the Earth.†Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi said India was…
Couple of quick ones from around the ‘sphere: Iran Announces It Has Built a Satellite Launcher. (26 January) – Jerusalem Post. Iran has converted its 30-ton Shahab-3 missile into a satellite launch vehicle, a US-based aviation journal reported Thursday. According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, Alaoddin Boroujerdi, chairman of Iran’s National Security and Foreign…
