Israeli defense firm XTEND has signed an agreement with the US Department of Defense to supply hundreds of new Wolverine Gen2 drones to the US military.The unmanned system will be used to protect ground troops, particularly on dangerous missions.Made in the US, the Wolverine is a lightweight, versatile drone with lower power consumption than other small, unmanned systems.It is designed to be...
BMT SPARROW: A novel payload delivery device for drones – APDR – Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
BMT has developed a novel concept described as an autonomous ‘air-ground payload transfer device’ to replace winches with truly disruptive capabilities for drone delivery applications. The device is called SPARROW and is a new type of lightweight suspended robot that descends on a line with the payload leaving the drone at height. While the drone remains in the approximate overhead, SPARROW has...
Boeing develops ground systems for JP9102 defence satellites … – Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
Boeing has combined the best of its local and U.S. expertise to build ground architecture and control systems for Australia’s first defence satellites under the JP9102 program. The systems leverage proven technology from the company’s U.S. Wideband Global Satellite and UHF space programs, along with its demonstrated Australian-developed Currawong Battlespace Communications System’s Mission System...
VAW survivors back Babaeng BiyaHero campaign – manilastandard.net
To continue the fight against gender violence, Safe and Fair Philippines organized an activity entitled “Empowering Voices, Empowering Choices: Women OFWs and Survivors of Violence Calls to end VAW” to help bring consciousness to the plight of abused Filipina workers abroad.16 VAW survivors-turned-advocates joined the Babaeng BiyaHero campaign of Safe and Fair Philippines to raise...
Defence issues new RFP for base services – APDR – Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
Australian businesses and industry have the opportunity to participate in the next generation of contracts to deliver base services around Australia and support Defence’s key capabilities. It follows the release of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for a fourth generation of contracts.Assistant Minister for Defence Matt Thistlethwaite said the contracts covered multiple sectors across industry and...
A French A400M airdropped 40 tonnes of supplies to troops in the Sahel – The Defense Post
A French Airbus A400M transport aircraft airdropped almost 40 tonnes of supplies to troops operating in the troubled Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, the Armed Forces Ministry said last week.On March 1, “an A400M left France to make an air delivery before landing at Niamey air base” in Niger, the ministry said in a release. “A second delivery was made the next day, before the...
Jim Chalmers to cut economic growth estimates amid inflation … – The Guardian
Treasurer will use state of the economy speech to trim 2021-22 growth to 3.75% and provide new inflation, wage and unemployment forecastsThe federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, will use the state of the economy speech to trim the national growth estimates, citing global economic “headwinds”. “[T]he headwinds our economy is facing – higher inflation at the top of that list, along with slowing global...
Warm home discount scheme: the key questions answered – The Guardian
What is the £140 discount scheme, who pays for it, do you qualify and does it go far enough?The warm home discount scheme, which at the moment offers a £140 discount to those on certain benefits during the winter months, has come under the spotlight as ministers explore ways to tackle the impact of the energy crisis on household bills. The government has said the discount will be increased next...
Une trentaine de disparus après le chavirage d'un navire militaire … – RFI
Ajouter RFI à votre écran d'accueil© 2023 Copyright RFI – Tous droits réservés. RFI n'est pas responsable des contenus provenant de sites Internet externes. Fréquentation certifiée par l'ACPM/OJD.Publié le : 19/12/2022 – 09:47 La marine royale thaïlandaise a lancé une opération de sauvetage pour retrouver les 31 personnes disparues au large après le chavirage d’un...
French Soldiers Lower Flag After Years in Mali’s Timbuktu – The Defense Post
French troops were preparing to leave the Malian city of Timbuktu on Tuesday, in a symbolic departure more than eight years after Paris first intervened in the conflict-torn Sahel state.It was there that then French president Francois Hollande formally declared the start of France’s military intervention, in February 2013, designed to root out jihadist insurgents.A few days...
