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Few coalition or Afghan government forces have been in Helmand province, sofar considered a stronghold of the Taliban. Coalition presence in this area consisted of few forward operating bases, among them Camp Bastion located south of the desert road to Kandahar. In recent months British Army and Royal Marines have launched repeated attacks on Taliban strongholds and poppy growing...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia put forth a counter-offer today to President Bush’s proposed missile defense plan, suggesting that instead of building radar defenses in the Czech Republic, the United States should use an existing system in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. With the dispute flaring in recent days into Cold War-style rhetoric and threats from Moscow,...

Established in 1973, Samtel Group has grown to become India’s largest electronic systems manufacturer of displays for consumer products, avionics, industrial and medical applications. The group employs 6000 people in nine world-class factories and has an annual turnover of over US$300 million. Samtel's displays are known for ruggedness and reliability and conform to the latest quality standards. In 2006 the...

OFB introduced the Zittara, a compact assault rifle designed specifically for close quarter battle. The Zittara multi-purpose carbine is generally based on Israel's IWI Micro Tavor assault rifle, which was designed for use by special operations units and is being proposed as the standard weapon for Israel’s intervention and special ops forces. The OFB Zittara differs from the Israeli design by...

Georgia's "Rose Revolution", like Ukraine's "Orange Revolution", is precisely the kind of popular uprising that the Russian elite fears most deeply. Any Western support for the Georgian cause will only increase Russian paranoia. The big question asked these days is whether the Kremlin bosses would have dared attacking Georgia, if it was already part of NATO? But Moscow's recognition of...

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Japan recently ordered 19 Biological, Chemical and Radiological Warning Systems from Lockheed Martin and its trading partner, the ITOCHU Corporation. The AbleSentry sensors are designed to provide authorities an early warning in case of a possible chemical, biological or radiological attack. The systems include a networked array of remote sensors providing a high probability of threat detection, while minimizing...

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Super Rapid Advanced Mortar System (SRAMS) – both 120mm mortar systems. Since the system uses along (2.5 meter) barrel, loading was a considerable challenge, which was solved by the application of an automatic muzzle loading system. This addition provides SRAMS with automatic operation and high rate of fire of up to 18 rounds per minute. To sustain such a...

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When such systems are fielded, individual Convoy Comm Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices are distributed to all convoy vehicles, enabling drivers or vehicle commanders to send and receive predefined messages with a touch on the screen. Situational reports or distress calls with accurate position and status information can be sent immediately, without the need for voice communications. Convoy Comm is...

INSS Insight By Asculai Ephraim Iran's main enrichment plant, located at Natanz, can accommodate some 54,000 gas centrifuge machines. At the present rate of operation at Natanz, these can produce low-enriched uranium for barely one refueling per annum of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The 3,000 machines at the new Qom plant would produce some 5 percent of the annually...

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Following are excerpts from recent news articles published ib Defense-Update, covering the Asian defense market. The countries included in this report are: Afghanistan | Australia | Brunei | Bangladesh | China | India | Indonesia | Japan | Malaysia | Myanmar | North Korea | Pakistan | Philippines | Singapore | South Korea | Sri-Lanka | Taiwan | Thailand | Vietnam....