DroneShield Sensors for Aus Army, Ajax’s Vibration Problems, Similar Practices: US, Aus, Canada, UK
Channel: 🔥Daily Breaking News🔥
Date: 21/07/2021

The Stryker armored vehicle hatch dropped. Soldiers scrambled out, aiming immediately at enemy positions as they dismounted. In the future, soldiers sealed inside Strykers will know where their objective and enemy soldiers are located via virtual pins dropped by other soldiers on mobile devices strapped to their chest. At this demonstration at Aberdeen Proving Ground last month the Stryker teams entered the fight and traversed the battlefield on the way to a mock Islamic State group weapons cache while their locations pinged to soldiers and vehicles across the Stryker brigade.

2.   DroneShield has sold a quantity of its RfOne MKIITM long-range sensors to the Australian Army. The capability is being delivered immediately to allow the Australian Army to assess its future counter-drone requirements and options. The RfOne MKII is a long range direction finder that, according to the company, detects and tracks small drones and other robotic threats at longer distances than any other device. It runs on the DroneSentry-C2 AI-based software engine, which scans the RF spectrum and reports threats to the operator without causing undue distraction from other tasks. The purpose of RfOne MKIITM is to off-set the ability of low-value drones to provide targeting data on high value armoured vehicles and other assets, and if paired with DroneSentry-X, can also neutralise those drones.

3.   One of Britain’s key land programs will find itself before the Parliamentary defence committee July 20 with leaders set to quiz top officials from the Ministry of Defence and contractor General Dynamics UK on the causes behind the troubled Ajax armored reconnaissance vehicle program. Delivery of an operational Ajax family of vehicles is a British Army priority as it seeks to transform the way it equips for a future digital battlefield. But, the tracked vehicle, an advanced version of General Dynamics Land Systems Ascod platform, has been beset with delivery and technical problems that have drawn criticism from government bodies such as the Infrastructure & Projects Authority and have attracted widespread media reporting.

4.   A visit to a US Army brigade has shown logistics personnel from Australia’s 7th Combat Brigade the similarities allies have in vehicle-recovery capabilities and practices. The 7th Combat Brigade personnel visited the US Army’s 14th Sustainment Brigade at Fort Carson while deployed on the Joint Warfighting Assessment 2021. During some time away from the warfighting activity, the personnel reviewed foreign capabilities and saw how their allies in the US Army recovered vehicles in the field. The 7th Combat Brigade’s Artificer Sergeant Major, Warrant Officer Class One (WO1) Mick Patman, said he was intrigued by the sheer size and manning of the 14th Sustainment Brigade. “We visited a heavy transport squadron that gave us a demonstration on loading vehicles using their on-board winch system,” WO1 Patman said. 

5.   The Indian Navy has received its first two MH-60R Seahawk multi-role helicopters of 24 ordered last year from the US for $2.12 billion. Indian ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, formally accepted the aircraft during a ceremony held at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego. He remarked that the induction of the multi-role helicopters serves as an important milestone in India-US defense ties. Indian naval forces will use the newly acquired helicopters to perform various combat missions, including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, combat search and rescue, and medical evacuation. The service purchased the MH-60R Seahawk helicopters because of their state-of-the-art avionics and sensors designed to support multiple missions even in adverse weather conditions. The Indian Navy will perform modifications on the vehicles, such as incorporating the country’s own military equipment and weapons, once the contract is complete.

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