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Magazine Issue

Aviation Week & Space Technology - DTI Edition October 13, 2014

VOL. 176 NO. 36 October 13, 2014

Front Line

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Saab Adds Capabilities In New Recoilless Rifle

Oct 13, 2014
Man-portable weapon upgrades were featured by Saab Dynamics at its recent industry day
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Raytheon UK Enhances Remote IED Detection

Oct 13, 2014
Enhanced land-mine detection product is underway in Europe
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U.S. Navy Readies Amphib Fleet for JSF, MV-22

Oct 13, 2014
Next-generation aircraft require fortified amphibious assault ships to handle their extra heat, downwash
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Poland Looks to Beef Up Defense Capabilities

Oct 13, 2014
Tensions in Eastern Europe have Poland looking to fortify its defense capability
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CTS Keeps Its Focus on Soldier Modernization

Oct 13, 2014
Developments in next-gen wearable and handheld IT products to bolster soldiers’ gear has lagged at some companies, but not at Chemring Technology Solutions

Commander's Intent

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Rebooting The Army

Oct 13, 2014
This expanded issue of Aviation Week’s Defense Technology International edition is the first of a series planned to coincide with major defense shows worldwide. This week, the Association of the U.S. Army convention and show opens in Washington—an event that grew rapidly during the 2000s as the U.S. committed soldiers and weapons to the longest land conflict in its history.

Dispatches

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Air And Ground Robots Add Battlefield Capabilities

Oct 13, 2014
With the evolution of modern satellite-based navigation, miniaturized inertial measurement systems, advanced electro-optical and laser sensors and powerful yet compact computing and advanced data links, robots are becoming smart enough to carry out autonomous missions as efficiently, or better than, their human counterparts.
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Darpa Seeks Options To Heavy Armor For Vehicle Survival

Oct 13, 2014
Darpa’s Ground X-Vehicle Technology program is a precursor to experimental vehicles that would demonstrate improved survivability by new means.
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China Deploys A Mechanized ‘Peace Mission’

Oct 13, 2014
At 7,000 troops, the Peace Mission 2014 military exercise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was not large militarily. But its geopolitical importance was considerable: It was the biggest exercise to date for a budding anti-democratic alliance that includes two nuclear powers and could soon gain three more.

Defense Analysis

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Army Leaders Worldwide Adapt Operations To New Demands

Oct 13, 2014
Armies using new technologies, force structures to counter evolving threats

Air Defense

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U.S. Army Wants To Field Integrated C-RAM Systems

Oct 13, 2014
Combining assets to defeat the rocket, artillery and mortar (RAM) threat has proven successful, but other traditional threats (aircraft/cruise missile) and emerging asymmetric ones (unmanned air systems) still have been treated separately. The RAM experience suggested an integrated approach to defeating these threats and to the acquisition process. This approach unites sensor, weapons and mission-command components with a standard set of interfaces using a standardized set of networks to communicate—a meta-system for air defense.
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Smaller Sensors Lead Socom Intel Needs

Oct 13, 2014
While the U.S. Special Operations Command has seen its force size and budget grow despite the current fiscal austerity sweeping Washington, it is looking not for new platforms but for ways of obtaining more data from its existing unmanned air systems, especially small ones such as AeroVironment’s man-portable, hand-launched RQ-11 Raven.

Defense

Op-Ed

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Opinion: Unmanned Platforms Need Humans In The Loop

Oct 13, 2014
People must remain central to any robotic systems
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Opinion: U.S. Army Must Develop A Force for Modern Warfare

Oct 13, 2014
If the outcome of wars is decided decades before they are fought, the U.S. is already late in planning for future conflicts

First Person

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Army Chief Remakes Swedish Force

Oct 13, 2014
Swedish army’s chief of staff is restructuring the service as a modern force.