Day: November 14, 2018

The Indian Army has received its first M777A2 Ultra Lightweight Howitzers (ULH) at an official handover ceremony, making a key step towards the modernising and strengthening its artillery capabilities. The gun systems, produced by BAE Systems, were accepted earlier this year, as part of a 145-gun agreement between the US and Indian governments and will deploy […]

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On 4 October 2018, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) levelled extraordinary accusations at Russia’s now-infamous military intelligence service, the GRU.  This was an unprecedented announcement; the kind of coordinated, international response Ciaran Martin, CEO of the NCSC, had alluded to months earlier in the aftermath of the Sergei Skripal affair. The GRU had, over a period of years, waged a “reckless and indiscriminate” campaign of cyber attacks, it was alleged, and here was the proof.  So certain were the intelligence community that they were […]

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The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that British troops have began testing out over 70 examples of futuristic technology including enhanced surveillance drones and unmanned vehicles on the fields of Salisbury Plain. The game-changing Autonomous Warrior experiment will last four weeks and test a range of prototype unmanned aerial and autonomous ground vehicles, which […]

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