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122336
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The idea of using strong materials to protect military personnel and assets is as old as the hills. Soldiers have been using body armour for thousands of years. Armour has been applied for vehicle since the earliest combustion engine - driven platforms appeared on the battlefield. Similarly, ships began to use armour in the 15th Century ant eh necessity of outfitting aircraft with armour protection became evident in the First World War.
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122378
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Ever since the US lifted a six year arms embargo against Indonesia following a political settlement in the Aceh province ending years of repressive rule and human rights abuse, Indonesia has become the most sought after country in south east Asia for defence sales. As several of its neighbours have either reached a saturation point in defence purchases or are facing budgetary constraints, Jakarta is looking to modernize its armed forces by inducting new weapons and improving its command and control systems besides training and simulation.
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122310
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2012.
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In the last decade, Pakistan has built its arms alliance with china and the US, largely benefitting from both with a steady supply of missiles, other weapons, ships and aircraft pouring in. Pakistan has been involved in various conflicts and wars (mostly with India), underscoring the need to maintain a modern military arsenal. However, from 1990-2001. The armed forces modernization slowed after the US levied sanctions and an arms embargo against the country's development of nuclear weapons.
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122314
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2012.
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International terrorism and insurgencies in area of conflict have led to the need for enhanced security and national borders and of military and other high level installations. Border security is a special challenge due to increased travel and movement of goods across the globe.
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122323
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2012.
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Of great importance for first responders- fire, police, ambulance, EOD, and specialist military units facing an incidence involving CBRN materials and releases - are protection of troops, civilians and the first responders themselves; detections and monitoring whether for a known or unknown agent or product; and agent identification- which must be done as speedily as possible to save lives.
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122390
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2012.
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Maritime patrol aircraft's (MPA) role has evolved in the late 1990s to early 21st century from long range patrol ASW and ASuW (anti Surface warfare) to modern requirements and new kind of missions that have imposed a transition from submarine killer to a multi mission capable aircraft characterized by a remarkable flexibility, which depends on its mission systems, software sensors and communications. An increasing number of countries are looking to up grade their current fleet of MPA to reflect tare looking to procure next generation MPA altogether to replace their older aircraft currently in service
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122322
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2012.
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The civil war raging between Syrian president Al-Assad's government forces and free Syrian army and other insurgent groups has produced the most serious potential CBRN crisis since preparations for Operation Deserts Strom in 1991, when Iraq was know to possess chemical and biological weapons on launchable munitions, such as short range SCUD missiles, and before that, in the Iran-Iraq war, when CW were deployed by both sides.
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122328
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2012.
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Such is the range of options within the domain on Non-Lethal (NL) weaponry, the adding such capability has been a natural extension to larger, traditional defence companies products portfolios and given even smaller, law enforcement based companies a valid reason to enter the lucrative defence market. The need for innovative solutions has also drawn in academic and research organizations not least those with expertise in undet standing of what keep solution NL, while still enabling the effect they cause to be debilitating.
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122324
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2012.
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The efforts to develop new Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) face some especially critical obstacles. New promising technologies are surfacing near daily, but they have to travel a long and expensive path before they can prove to be effective, non lethal affordable, reliable and fieldable all at once.
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122321
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2012.
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Pakistan's armed forces are composed of completely volunteer forces. The Pakistan army has active service manpower of 550,000 reservists and- together with the air force ad navy ranks as the 7th largest military forces in the world.
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122311
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2012.
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Pakistan's defence industry is increasingly successful and might expand its capabilities and technological base, but the country will remain dependent on foreign suppliers for modern equipment for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, Pakistan follow a diversification strategy based on two strength: first Islamabad seeks to strengthen ties with two core countries such as the US and China; and, second Pakistan aims at foreign relations with a host of (mainly) Muslim nations such as Turkey, Nigeria and Indonesia to further enhance its strategy, since the country remains weary of the possibility of sanctions and military embargoes.
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122325
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2012.
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Non-Lethal Weapons (NWL) are define by the joint non lethal weapons programme (JNLWP) "weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed soas to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while main minimising fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment." The types of operation they might be employed on include the Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster relief, Vehicle/ Vessels Stopping Clearing Structures/Facilities, Check point/ Convoy Security, Crow Control, FOB/Facility Security Maritime Stability Operations, Support to Civil Authorities, Detainee Operations and Counter Piracy.
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122377
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2012.
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Our geopolitical landscape is being transformed. Five decades ago, if you drew a matrix of countries in the tried to map out bilateral partnership between them, you would see lots of empty boxes. Beyond cold war alliances and beyond normal bilateral relations, there was not much else. However, today that same matrix is full of checked boxes showing one important fact: that almost every country in the region has established an elaborate web of diplomatic, security or economic partnership with other countries.
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