Rapid Fire July 3, 2012: Sinkex Abstinence No More

Jul 03, 2012 06:28 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff

  • The US Navy is going to resume sink exercises (sinkex) during RIMPAC later this month.

  • Rear Admiral Davyd Thomas, Deputy Chief of the Royal Australian Navy between 2008 and 2011, has been appointed Vice President of Austal’s defense business.

  • MBDA continues work on its SPEAR Capability 3 project, which will re-use components from the dual-mode Brimstone light strike missile in a larger body with a 75 km range. The idea is to have each F-35A/C bay able to fit 1 MBDA Meteor long-range air-to-air missile (which just finished testing) and 4 SPEAR 3s. Britain’s F-35B, with its smaller and oddly-shaped bays, will be more of a challenge, and neither SPEAR nor Meteor are slated to be part of the F-35′s initial integrated weapon set in 2018.

  • The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) published a code of conduct [PDF] to guide its members now that UAV civilian use seems poised to boom.

  • The Christian Science Monitor provides some background context to explain the political backlash in South Korea that halted an expected agreement with Japan to share military intelligence. They have the shared threat in North Korea, but they also have a shared history – and that’s the problem.

  • “Offshore control” [PDF], a strategy to deal with China offered by T.X. Hammes at the National Defense University.

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