Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 30, 2013

A computer generated animation of the ARGUS system. LiveLeak (courtesy of PBS Nova)

Drone Spying Capabilities Are About To Take Another Huge Leap -- Business Insider

The fleet of drones that police our skies are about to get an upgrade.

Developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and BAE Systems, The $18.5 million Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System (ARGUS) program will be the most advanced surveillance system in the sky.

Once attached under an unmanned aerial vehicle, an ARGUS camera can patrol at 17,500 feet and send back high resolution images of 1.8 gigapixels.

The images are so crisp and clear that an analyst can actually see what color shirt a subject is wearing.

Read more ....

MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Report Labels Bundeswehr Overstretched, Insecure
-- Defense News

Jailings may have spurred Turkish commander to quit -- Reuters

Taiwan President Presses for U.S. Subs Deal
-- Defense News/AFP

Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: Chinese missile technicians spotted in Egypt working with North Koreans to upgrade Scuds
-- Washington Free Beacon

State Department supports foreign military sales growth -- DoD Buzz

MRAPs getting upgraded escape hatches -- Army Times/USA Today

Mike Wynne, Former Air Force Secretary, Says Deploy Fifth Gen Planes, Fly Em With Korean F-16s -- AoL Defense

JSF Program Points Finger at Contractors for Grounding -- Defense Tech

US Air Force hopes to upgrade aggressor F-16s
-- Flight Global

Search On for Pilot After F-16 Crash Debris Found -- Military.com/Stars and Stripes

Next Up for SEALs: Upgraded Batman-Style Grappling Hook Gun
-- Danger Room

US military to test lasers on warplanes in 2014 -- FOX News/TechNewsDaily

US Military Wants 'Mission Impossible' Self-Destructing Devices
-- Live Science

Operation Guardian -- Information Dissemination

LCS: How Did We Get Here? -- CDR Salamander

Amos: Marines eye new crisis-response unit -- Marine Times

Adm. Bill McRaven: SOCOM Struggles With CR, Sequester -- Aol Defense

U.S. Special Ops To Feel Budget Pain, Leaders Say -- Defense News

Defense industry ‘hopeful’ on sequester despite GOP pessimism -- The Hill

BAE Systems to lay off 300 workers -- The Hill

Odierno warns of readiness crash in next 6 mos. -- Army Times

Air Force's aiming to outmaneuver sequestration
-- Michael Auslin, Politico

Washington Budget Wars Poised To Devastate Military Communities -- Loren Thompson, Forbes

Sen. Graham: Either Panetta testifies on Libya or I put hold on Hagel nomination -- The Hill

Hagel supports nuclear arms cuts, elimination -- Army Times/AP

9 new House members share distinction of being veterans of recent wars -- Stars and Stripes

U.N. Drone Investigator: If Facts Lead to U.S. War Crimes, So Be It
-- Danger Room

Military to unveil new counterinsurgency field manual -- Stars and Stripes

Seven Reasons Why Women-in-Combat Diversity Will Degrade Tough Training Standards -- Center For Military Readiness

Why combat role for US women could reverberate worldwide
-- Sara Miller Llana and Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor

Americans largely support women in military combat, poll finds -- McClatchy News/L.A. Times

Is there a natural rate of relief of about 9 percent for commanders in combat? -- Best Defense/Foreign Policy

3 Reasons N. Korea Can’t Nuke the U.S. (Yet) -- Discovery News

US Military Deaths In Afghanistan At 2,045
-- NPR/AP

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