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Maintenance and Engineering Support. Maintenance and Engineering Support is the formation of the Singapore Army responsible for military engineering maintenance. It provides maintenance and engineering support to the Army by ensuring high operational equipment readiness for the Army and the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) at sustainable budget and manpower resources. It also train technicians and operator-maintainers (OMers) to perform field repairs in military exercises and training. 

The formation also has collaborations with other organisations such as the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), ST Kinetics and the National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Cluster (NAMIC).

History 
The formation started as HQ Maintenance in 1984 to oversee the Army's maintenance battalions and maintenance training school. In 1994, it was renamed Maintenance and Engineering Support (MES) after the reorganisation of Army Logistics Command (ALCOM) and G4 Army. MES received the ISO 9002 certification in 1995, People Developer Standard in 2001, ISO 14000 certification in 2002, and ISO 18000 certification in 2005.

The MES formation shifted from Ayer Rajah Camp to Kranji Camp III in 2010. In April that year, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) had introduced the Military Domain Experts Scheme (MDES), a separate rank structure which runs parallel to the SAF's conventional rank system. MES regulars who have converted to the MDES, or joined after the MDES was introduced, hold ranks from Military Expert 1 (ME1) to Military Expert 8 (ME8).

Operations 
The MES formation has provided support to the SAF in disaster relief, humanitarian aid and peace support operations over the years, such as during the 1986 Hotel New World collapse in Singapore, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and in Afghanistan in 2010 when the SAF's Weapon Location Radar (WLR) engineering team provided field innovation to sustain the radar under harsh environmental conditions.

References 

Military units and formations established in 1984
Formations of the Singapore Army
EDM4S. The EDM4S or EDM4S SkyWiper (Electronic Drone Mitigation 4 - System), is a portable electronic warfare anti-drone device produced and developed by the Lithuanian company NT Service It is designed to disrupt small and medium sized UAVs by jamming their communication and satellite navigation systems with an electromagnetic pulse.

History  
The device was first shown by the company NT Service (based in Kaunas, Lithuania) in the 2019 Security and Counter Terror Exhibition in London. In partnership with Israeli company Skylock, NT Service also produces the system under the name "Skybeam".

Description 

The device can be carried by one person. The operator points the device at the UAV and activates it to disrupt the UAV's communications out to a range of , as well as its satellite navigation capabilities. Depending on the UAV's level of autonomy, it may then fall out of the sky, make a controlled landing, return to an earlier waypoint, or continue operating normally.

The device can have 4 or 6 antennas. By default there are two antennas for the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequency bands, with a power of 10 W each, one antenna for the GPS 1.5 GHz band with a power of 10 W, and one antenna for the GLONASS 1.5 GHz band with a power of 10 W.

The device is made of aluminium, with the "gun" portion being modelled after the Heckler & Koch G36 rifle – including a trigger to activate the device and optics for sighting. It weighs 5.5 kg and measures 1050 × 220 × 360 mm with the stock extended (830 × 220 × 360 mm without the stock extended). It is powered by a 24 V battery, which can last for up to 60 minutes.

Operational history 
The EDM4S-UA version of the device – at a unit cost of US$15,000 – was first used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the Russian separatist drones in Donbas in 2021 as part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. It has since seen further use in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, neutralizing the Russian drones such as the Eleron-3. In June 2022, Lithuania donated 110 units to Ukraine at a cost of €1.5 million (US$1.56 million).

Operators

Lithuanian Armed Forces

Ukrainian Armed Forces: EDM4S-UA

Romanian Armed Forces: Skylock Skybeam

See also
Drone warfare

References

Electronic countermeasures
Electronic warfare equipment
Military electronics of Lithuania
Modern military equipment of Lithuania
ENICS Eleron-3. The ENICS Eleron-3 (ЭНИКС Элерон-3 in Russian) is a reconnaissance UAV made by the Russian manufacturer ENICS.

History 
The Russian word eleron (Элерон) means aileron.

The Eleron-3 was originally aimed at the civilian sector, and can be used to survey things such as gas pipelines and power lines, or during search-and-rescue missions.

In 2012, the Russian armed forces decided to procure the Eleron-3 along with the larger Eleron-10, the procured Eleron-3SW model was an improvement over the original one. Initial production capacities were low; in the 12 months between 2013 and 2014, ENICS could only produce 34 Eleron-3SW; however, production capacities were eventually increased.

The Russian armed forces have used the Eleron-3 in the Russian-Ukrainian War in Donbas since 2014, and in military operations in the Syrian Civil War since 2015. In the early stages of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian reconnaissance drones like the Eleron-3 were rarely used; but that changed later on. The Eleron-3 has been shot down during the invasion of Ukraine by electronic warfare devices such as the EDM4S.

Characteristics 
The Eleron-3 has a conventional aircraft fuselage, delta wings, and a tailplane. The Eleron-3SW, on the other hand, has a blended wing body without a tailplane. It is launched using an aircraft catapult and lands using a parachute. An electric motor drives a pusher propeller at the back. The Eleron-3SW model has been significantly improved over the original; in addition to better flight performance, it offers reduced noise and improved climb performance, reduced dimensions when folded for transport and a longer maximum flight duration.

The overall system consists of the drone, a modular payload (which can be a radio relay or radio jammer), a ground radio station and a launcher. The ground radio station can control up to two drones simultaneously.

The drone can be equipped with various image intensifier and thermal imaging cameras for night vision capabilities. The operator can search for targets in real time, with the exact position of these targets being displayed on the operator console using GLONASS or GPS.

The Eleron-3 offers three flight programs supported by GLONASS or GPS:
 Autonomous: The coordinates of the flight route are stored before departure. During the flight, the drone maintains radio silence and flies the route independently.
 Automatic: The coordinates of the flight route are stored before departure, but can be changed through the control panel during flight.
 Semi-automatic: The operator specifies the flight direction and altitude during the flight.

Specifications

References 

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Russia
Karim Bibi Triki. Karim Bibi Triki (; born 16 August 1968) is the Algerian Minister of Post and Telecommunications. He was appointed as minister on 8 July 2021.

Education 
Triki holds a Bachelor of Mathematics (1986) from the Lycée Colonel Lotfi and a Master in Electronics (1991) from the University of Science and Technology.

Career 
From 1994 until 1996, Triki was a Reserve Second Lieutenant in the Algerian Air Force.

Between 1992 and 2009, he worked for ALFATRON Electronic Industries. He was the Development Engineer from 1992 until 1996. In 1997, he was appointed Director of Engineering and Development. In 1999, Triki became Deputy General Manager. From 2001 until 2009, he was the Chairman and CEO of ALFATRON.

From 2009 until 2020, Triki held several positions at Intel Corporation, including Business Development Manager, Country Manager for North Africa and Country Lead of Intel.

Between 2020 and 2021, he served as the Chairman and CEO at Groupe Télécom Algérie.

Since 7 July 2021, Triki has been the Minister of Post and Telecommunications.

References 

1968 births
Living people
21st-century Algerian politicians
Government ministers of Algeria
ENICS Eleron-10. The ENICS Eleron-10 (ЭНИКС Элерон-10 in Russian) is a medium-range reconnaissance UAV for 24/7 surveillance, developed by the Russian company ENICS.

History 
The Russian word eleron (Элерон) means aileron.

The Eleron-10 was designed by ENICS to perform 24/7 surveillance, and in particular border control, coast guards, road and railway monitoring, and search and rescue operations.

The first prototype of the drone was developed and manufactured by ENICS on 8 January 2011 as a successor to the smaller Eleron-3. It was shown publicly for the first time in 2011 during the international trade fair "Integrated Security".

The Eleron-10 was procured by the Russian armed forces in 2012, alongside the Eleron-3. The Eleron-10SV model was used by the Russian Interior Ministry to survey an arsenal fire in the village of Urman, in Bashkortostan near Ufa. The "Valdai" model has been used by the Russian FSB. An Eleron-10D has been produced, which has longer distance observation capabilities.

Characteristics 
The Eleron-10 has several flight modes:
 Autonomous: The drone flies the route independently and carries out preplanned functions.
 Automatic: The drone flies the route independently.
 Maintenance: The drone hovers or flies around a fixed point.
 Manual

References 

Unmanned aerial vehicles
Jos Baeten. Josephus C.M. Baeten (born 15 June 1954) is a Dutch computer scientist and mathematician, who has published on process calculus, concurrency theory, formal methods, model-based software engineering, model-based systems engineering and theory of computation.

Early life and education 
Jos Baeten was born in Tilburg. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1985, advised by Wayne Richter.

Career 
He was a researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the University of Amsterdam until 1991, when he was appointed as a full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. There, he was professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1991 until 2015 (in two periods, he was dean of the department), and professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2010 until 2012. In 2011, he returned to CWI as its director, and in 2015, he returned to the University of Amsterdam as professor of theory of computing at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation. He retired from both positions in 2020, and at that time became a CWI Fellow.

Baeten chaired the steering committee of the CONCUR conferences 1991-2018 and was president of ERCIM 2018-2019. Since 2010, he is a member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen.

During the 75th anniversary of CWI, he received a royal decoration of Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

References 

Dutch computer scientists
Dutch mathematicians
University of Minnesota alumni
People from Tilburg
1954 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Members of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen
Fath 360. Fath-360 (Persian: فتح-۳۶۰), also known as BM-120, is an Iranian short-range satellite-guided tactical ballistic missile announced on the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Day, April 18, 2022. They are built by the Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO).

History
On August 10, 2024, Reuters claimed that Russian soldiers were visiting Iran to train on the Fath 360, following up on a previous contract allegedly signed on December 13th between the two countries. It was reported that Russia received the missiles on September 4, 2024.

Design 

It is believed that Fath 360 is a shorter version of Fateh family of SRBMs. Its light weight and small dimensions allow several of these missiles to be put on a truck-based launcher.  

With  of range, each can carry a  warhead and be launched with the speed of Mach 3 (1020 m/s). Then they connect to satellites for rapid homing and hit their targets with the speed of Mach 4 (1361 m/s).

Missile 
The Fath 360  was first shown under the name of Fath in a military exhibition on August 21, 2020. As a family of Fateh SRBMs, it is almost half the size of a Fateh-110. But it has the same configuration of fins. Four at the end of it near the exhaust, four other triangular shaped fins just above them and four small ones in front of missile near the nosecone.

Launcher 
The missile is launched through a round launch container on a truck-based TEL. The Fath-360 launcher comes with two, three, four or six-round launch containers each carrying one missile. with these characteristics it can act like a GMLRS.

Guidance 
Fath 360 uses GNSS guidance and is believed to be using GLONASS satellite navigation system as its guidance. The missile is also believed to be using INS as a secondary guidance system.

Operators 

 
 Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces
 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces
 
 Russian Armed Forces
 
 Syrian Armed Forces

Operational history 
Fath-360 was first test fired during the Eghtedar 1401 military drills at Nasrabad, Isfahan.

Reports also say that Fath-360 has been used to attack the positions of KDPI in Northern Iraq on September 28, 2022.See 2022 Koya bombings.

On April 11, 2023, the Iranian army received several Fath-360 systems in a ceremony.

References 

Tactical ballistic missiles of Iran
Journal of Materials Research. The Journal of Materials Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers research in materials science. The journal was established in 1986 and is the official journal of the Materials Research Society. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Ramamoorthy Ramesh (University of California, Berkeley).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
EBSCO databases
Ei Compendex

Science Citation Index Expanded

Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.909.

References

External links

 

English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1986
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Semi-monthly journals
Amir Emad Mirmirani. Amir Emad Mirmirani () also known as Jadi (), is an educator, programmer, blogger, Geek, Hacker and internet activist in the field of Free and open-source software and Linux in Iran. He was arrested in October 2022 amidst the Mahsa Amini protests for raising awareness about internet censorship in Iran and the role of various tech companies including Abr Arvan in it.

Background 
Jadi has a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications engineering from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology and a master's degree in sociology from Allameh Tabataba'i University. He is an expert in Linux and Python and has worked in telecommunication companies with different companies around the world. He is considered one of the leading lecturers of scientific courses on Python, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Machine learning and LPIC in Iran. He is also the author and translator of technical and science fictions books. Some of his translations include Just for fun, a biographical account of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel  and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

Jadi also hosts a podcast called Radio Geek (also known as Radio Jadi). He is passionate about freedom of expression and believes in human-digital rights.

Arrest 
On October 5, 2022, security forces raided his house, arrested him without showing an arrest warrant and took him to Evin Prison. His arrest was believed to be in connection with his efforts educating and warning about internet censorship and Islamic Republic's plans to establish a Cyberspace service regulation system as well as raising awareness about tech companies such as Abr Arvan that cooperate with the government of Iran to cut off Iranian users' access to the internet and provide access only to domestic networks.

Shortly after the arrest, his Twitter and Instagram accounts were deactivated. His arrest was part of a wave of arrests carried out by the Government of Iran as a result of the September 2022 Iranian protests.
He was released on bail on December 12, 2022. and later his case was closed without a final ruling.

See also 
‌Mahsa Amini protests
Detainees of the September 2022 Iranian protests
Human rights in Iran

Sources 

Iranian bloggers
Internet activists
Open access activists
Open content activists
Iranian podcasters
Living people
Iranian software developers
Political prisoners in Iran
1978 births
PC Building Simulator 2. PC Building Simulator 2 is a simulation-strategy video game developed by Spiral House and published by Epic Games Publishing. It is the sequel to PC Building Simulator. The game was released on October 12, 2022 for Windows. It features parts based on real life components from a vast array of specialised brands that endorsed the game such as AMD, Intel and Nvidia.

Gameplay 
Like the first game, the game is concentrated around owning and running a workshop which builds and maintains PCs, mainly gaming-oriented ones. The sequel expands on the original game by adding new features to the two main game modes: Career, and Free Build. PC Building Simulator 2 allows players to install apps without restarting the PC they are working on, and more in-depth PC customisation. Most of the applications that appeared on the previous game are refreshed and the general visual aesthetics of the game updated.

In the career mode, the player has moved to Uncle Tim's PC Shop in UK after a fire. Similar to the previous game, the player will start with some beginning jobs, including performing a virus scan for the first customer, and as they progress through the game new tools and more advanced jobs will be available for them.

Development
The trailer of PC Building Simulator 2 was released in March 2022. An open beta for the game was available from 11-20 June. Epic Games Publishing published the game via its own Epic Games Store in October of the same year.

Reception

PC Building Simulator 2 received "generally favorable reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. NME highlighted the accurate representation of PC building and repairs, but notes that players may lose interest overtime. Dexerto lauded the improvements and new features compared to its predecessor. GameSpew praised the game for setting "a new benchmark" for simulation games. Multiplayer.it touted the variety of hardware components and excellent simulation. Impulse Gamer criticised the stock in-game music, but praises the game as a "terrific sim" and great learning tool for aspiring PC builders. Sector.sk praises the game as a well-rounded sequel, but has gripes with the monotonous and repetitive campaign.

References

External links 
 

2022 video games
Business simulation games
Epic Games games
Single-player video games
Spiral House games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Noboru Tokita. Noboru Tokita (February 20, 1923 - October 31, 2014) was a Uniroyal and later Cabot scientist known for his work on the processing of elastomers.

Personal

Tokita was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1923. He met his wife Noriko while on an exchange program at Duke University. They married and decided to stay in the United States.  He was a close colleague of 2009 Charles Goodyear Medal winner James White, introducing White to his future wife Yoko Masaki.

Education 

Tokita completed BS degree at Tokyo University in 1948, and his Ph.D. in physics and chemistry in 1957 at the University of Hokkaido.

Career 

He began his professional career in 1954 as a professor of Applied Physics at Waseda University in Tokyo.  He held this position until 1960 when he came to the United States on an exchange program with Duke University.  At Duke, he taught polymer rheology. In the early 1960s Tokita joined the U. S. Rubber Company in New Jersey, later Uniroyal, working there for 30 years on elastomer processing. He later joined Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company in Akron in a research role.  He joined Cabot Corporation in Billerica in 1990. During his career he produced 9 U.S. Patents.  His most cited scientific article treated the subject of morphology formation in elastomer blends.

Awards

 1994 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from Rubber Division of the ACS

References 

1923 births
2014 deaths
Polymer scientists and engineers
Scientists from Sapporo
University of Tokyo alumni
Hokkaido University alumni
Academic staff of Waseda University
Duke University faculty
Japanese emigrants to the United States
Physical chemists
Aawatif Hayar. Aawatif Hayar is the Moroccan Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and the Family. She was appointed as Minister on 7 October 2021.

Education 
Hayar holds a Master in Electrical Engineering (1992) from the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and a PhD in Signal Processing and Telecommunications (2001) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse.

Career 
From 2001 until 2010, Hayar worked as a research and teaching associate at EURECOM in France.

In 2011, she became professor at Hassan II University Casablanca. In 2016, Hayar was appointed as scientific advisor of Smart City Expo Casablanca and general co-chair of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference.

From 2019 until 2021, she served as the President of Hassan II University Casablanca.

Since 7 October 2021, Hayar has been the Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and the Family.

Awards 
Hayar was named one of the 10 most innovative African women by the African Innovation Foundation in 2015.

References 

Living people
21st-century Moroccan politicians
École Normale Supérieure alumni
University of Toulouse alumni
Academic staff of the University of Hassan II Casablanca
Heads of universities in Morocco
Women government ministers of Morocco
Solidarity ministers of Morocco
Year of birth missing (living people)
Istiqlal Party politicians