Rapid Fire 2010-12-30: DARPA UUVs

Dec 29, 2010 22:35 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

  • API Technologies, a Ronkonkoma, NY-based supplier of military UAVs, robots, and electronics, completes a 1-for-4 reverse stock split in an effort to get Nasdaq listing.

  • While the US is shutting down its Joint Forces Command, South Korea is setting one up as part of a major military command structure overhaul.

  • DARPA launches program [PDF] to develop unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to track quiet submarines.

  • India launches first indigenous aerostat communications and surveillance system with night vision cameras. They already employ a number of Israeli radar aerostats, and have used them very successfully.

  • Meanwhile, a Malaysian defense analyst looks at Pakistan’s options in countering Indian air power, and ponders an ‘asymmetric’ approach using unmanned UCAVs. While feasibility is a question mark given Pakistan’s status on the precipice of financial default and worse, this analysis mirrors ideas being debated elsewhere.

  • 3,500 soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, from Fort Knox are headed to Afghanistan for 1-year deployment.

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