Dragonfly drones and lasers: Britain invests £800m in next generation of military technology
Britain will spend more than £800million funding next-generation military technology including tiny "dragonfly drones" for gathering intelligence and laser weapons to eliminate missiles.
Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, will today announce an innovation unit which will encourage individuals and companies to pitch ideas to a panel of experts. The best ideas will be fast-tracked with the support of an £800million fund over the next decade.
Projects which will be funded include a "micro-drone" with tiny flapping wings inspired by the biology of a dragon fly, which could have a "huge impact" on operations in urban environments.
It weighs less than two pound coins, is less than five inches long and will be able to fly at speeds of up to 45mph. The drone, which has been developed by a company called Animal Dynamics in Oxford, will be equipped with a camera and a microphone enabling it to carry out covert surveillance.
The unit will also fund new "Quantum Gravimeter" which is being developed with the University of Birmingham to survey underground structures.
Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said: "This new approach will help to keep Britain safe while supporting our economy, with our brightest brains keeping us ahead of our adversaries.
“Backed by a defence budget that will rise every year until the end of the decade, it will ensure that the UK maintains its military advantage in an increasingly dangerous world.”
Trump Tries to Brand Obama, Clinton With Islamic Stateby webdesk@voanews.com (Katherine Gypson)
Donald Trump’s claim that President Barack Obama “founded” the Islamic State may be just the latest controversy in a volatile election season, but those comments could have far-reaching consequences on perceptions of the U.S. internationally and on the continual media dilemma over how to cover remarks by the unconventional candidate. In a campaign rally Thursday, Trump called Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “the MVPs of ISIS,” reiterating claims from a day...
For 40 years, Ronald Reagan’s ideas — and the idea of Reagan — have guided the GOP: Republican candidates for offices high and low have claimed his mantle, and even Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have had to contend with his legacy. But Donald Trump is a departure from that tradition.
What if the things people have held themselves back from saying for fear of social censure aren't inherently meaningful? The sad thing about so much supposed truth-telling is that their supposed transgressions aren't remotely risky. They're just rude.
This is a perfect moment for the crisis in Ukraine to heat up, and worrying developments are afoot, prompting fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin might be planning an invasion or some other kind of hostile action against Kiev after all.
U.S. special operations forces in Syria do many things in the war against the Islamic State. They gather intelligence, build relationships with local communities, help spot targets for air strikes and train and advise local forces on the ground. One thing they cannot do, though, is enter into range of the enemy's fire.
A World War II veteran, Wootten spent years with the Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1960, he was posted as an assistant air attache with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
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Security experts say DCLeaks.com shows the marks of the same Russian intelligence outfit that targeted the Democratic political organizations.
In 1953, scientists at the British Natural History Museum and University of Oxford reported that the Piltdown fossil was actually a hodgepodge of human and orangutan bones, none of them more than 720 years old.
Britain is launching an innovation initiative aimed at fast-tracking futuristic defense technology to the front line, the Ministry of Defence will announce Aug 12.
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Comments by the chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, dealt a serious blow to the fragile power-sharing arrangement brokered by the United States.
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Russia Strikes IS-Held City in Syria Amid Aleppo Fight
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Even Pro-Moscow Writer Says Ethnic Russians in Baltic States Will Defend Them if Russia Invadesby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, August 10 – In an article that is both worrying and reassuring, a pro-Moscow commentator says that ethnic Russians in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are loyal to these countries and would fight for them if the Russian Federation were to invade them at some point in the future.
Such a statement is worrisome because it suggests that some in the Russian government are now focusing on the Baltic countries as possible targets for Vladimir Putin’s next round of aggressive action and considering who might be Moscow’s allies and who would be its opponents.
But it is reassuring because it suggests that at least some in Russia recognize a reality that nationalist commentary in the Baltic countries and Russia often obscures: the ethnic Russians in the three are overwhelmingly integrated in and loyal to those countries in much the same way that ethnic Russians in Ukraine were and are overwhelmingly loyal to Kyiv.
Writing on the pro-Moscow portal directed at the Baltic countries, Rubaltic.ru, today, Laima Katse says that many Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians remain uncertain about the loyalty of ethnic Russians in their midst and continue to ask whether the latter would shoot at or welcome a Russian invasion (rubaltic.ru/article/politika-i-obshchestvo/100816-loyalnost/).
“When Putin’s MIGs land in Riga and [Russian] tanks enter Narva, whom will the Russian speakers shoot at? Will they stand in defense of their Baltic Motherlands? Or perhaps they will be supporters of Russian aggression as in Crimea?” are questions, Katse says, that some Baltic politicians and commentators regularly pose.
Because political leaders are posing such questions, Katse says, scholars in the three questions routinely conduct research on their attitudes; and their studies show that ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in the three Baltic countries are far more loyal than some Baltic politicians and Russian officials expect.
Last month, the Lithuanian polling company Baltijos tyrimai asked 500 Poles, ethnic Russians and representatives of other national minorities if they would defend Lithuania were it attacked. The survey found that the percentage saying they would was just as high as the percentage of Lithuanians making that declaration (ru.delfi.lt/news/live/issledovanie-chto-delali-by-russkie-i-polyaki-litvy-esli-by-na-strany-baltii-napala-rossiya.d?id=71992604).
Last year, Katse continues, a similar study was conducted in Latvia. There, the share of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers who said they would defend Latvia in the event of a Russian attack was slightly lower but only slightly than the share of ethnic Latvians who made that declaration (mod.gov.lv/~/media/AM/Ministrija/Sab_doma/2015/Aptauja_2015.ashx).
And the year before that, in the wake of Russia’s occupation of Crimea, another study asked the same kinds of questions in Latvia and reached the same conclusions: Russians and Russian speakers were just as prepared to defend Latvia against Russians as Latvians were (mirros.hse.ru/data/2014/03/26/1318829585/ mir rossii №1_ 2014 [Pages 87 - 114].pdf ).
What was especially striking in that study, Katse says, is that only just over one ethnic Russian in four in Latvia declared that he or she felt an attachment to Russia, “and only six percent had a positive attitude toward organizations which promote the Kremlin’s policy on compatriots” in the Baltic countries and elsewhere.
This month, she continues, a Latvian sociologist reported that ethnic Russians who live and work elsewhere in Europe now identify with Latvia. They say that they are “Russians from Latvia,” an identity that calls into question the notion of some universal “Russian world” (baltnews.lv/news/20160808/1017202549.html).
Even Western observers are struck by how pro-Baltic the ethnic Russians of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania now are. Writing in “Die Welt” this week, Alan Pozener said that the loyalty of the Russian minorities was quite striking given the problems that some of them have in the Baltic countries (welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article157516050/Am-Baltikum-koennte-sich-Putin-die-Zaehne-ausbeissen.html).
Katse says she too is surprised by this reality and repeats Pozener’s conclusion that Moscow won’t be able to play the ethnic card in the Baltic states successfully at least at the mass level, something she suggests both Baltic governments and the Russian one should take into consideration.
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Karelian Calls on Putin to Protect Minorities from ‘Great Power Chauvinism’ by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, August 11 – Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, said that there were two dangers in nationality policy – “local nationalism” among non-Russians and “great power chauvinism” among Russians. These had to be fought, he said, by the non-Russians and the Russians respectively rather than be the subject of mutual attacks.
For most of the Soviet period, Moscow did far more to combat “local nationalism” than it did to counter “great power chauvinism” because it viewed the basic characteristics of the latter as a lesser evil since it was thought to promote the unity of the state and the former as the greater evil because it was viewed as a threat to that unity.
With the demise of the USSR, these two terms largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead, the new Russian leadership focused on “nationalist extremism” as such, finding it primarily among non-Russians such as the Chechens but also at least on occasion among ethnic Russians as well.
Now, in what may be an unexpected development, complaints about “great power chauvinism” have resurfaced; and in what is certain to spark controversy, a representative of the non-Russian segment of the population is calling on the Kremlin to fight it, an appeal that has the potential to further divide Russians and non-Russians, something Lenin tried to avoid.
Anatoly Grigoryev, president of the Karelian Congress, has sent a letter to Putin calling on him to help combat “great power chauvinism” among Russians in the Karelian Republic and help the Karels and Finns for whom the republic was created (finugor.ru/news/karelskiy-aktivist-prosit-prezidenta-rf-okazat-pomoshch-karelam-i-finnamand nazaccent.ru/content/21554-putina-poprosili-zashitit-karelov-i-finnov.html).
In his appeal, copies of which were sent to the presidents of Estonia and Finland as well, the Karelian activist says that “the russification of Karels and Finns is being actively carried out in a way that shows that nationality policy there is guided by rather than directed against “’great power chauvinism.’”
At present, Grigoryev says, Karels and Finns form only two to three percent of the population of their republic. The majority of them do not speak their native languages. In the republic parliament, there are few deputies from these national groups and none of them know their own peoples’ languages.
Moreover, he continues, “the only Finnish national theater in Russia (in Petrozavodsk) has become a Russian-language institution” and the authorities have refused to support the continued publication of the journal “Carelia” in its former size and frequency.
But what is most distressing, he suggests, is that the social and economic conditions of the Karels and Finns in Karelia is “clearly worse than the position of the Russian language majority.” And that too, he argues, is contributing to their “moral degradation and ethnic degeneration.”
Grigoryev reminds Putin that all this “violates” Russian law and Russia’s international obligations and constitutes “a threat to the state security of Russia.” Given the Kremlin leader’s concerns about that, he must “provide the necessary state support to Karels and Finns living in the Republic of Karelia.
The Karelian activist has sharply criticized Russian policies in Karelia for many years. (On this, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/08/ussr-helped-numerically-small-peoples.html,windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2012/12/window-on-eurasia-karelias-decision-to.htmlandwindowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2015/04/moscows-russification-policies-not.html.)
But his decision to issue an open appeal to Putin, with copies to the leaders of Estonia and Finnland, and his use of the term “great power chauvinism” suggests not only the increasing desperation of the minorities in Karelia but also his own willingness to elevate their fight to a new level, one that seems certain to present real problems for the Kremlin in the future.
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Moscow Unlikely to Be Able to Build New Fleet as Soon as It Plans, Norwegian Experts Sayby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, August 11 – Moscow has announced an ambitious program to expand its military fleet especially in the Arctic, but Norwegian defense analysts say that the Russian government is unlikely to be able to complete this program in the timeframe it has announced. As they put it, “bragging about new vessels is one thing; building them is another.”
Many in the West have been impressed and even alarmed by Moscow’s declarations of plans to build a modern fleet in order to project power into the Arctic and elsewhere; and if Moscow were to have such a fleet, it would fundamentally change the balance of forces there and elsewhere given the absence of similar plans in Western capitals.
But as Thomas Nilson of “The Independent Barents Observer” points out, there is a huge gap between what the Russian authorities have announced and their ability to implement these plans within the short time frames they outline (thebarentsobserver.com/security/2016/08/no-breaks-russias-warship-program-experts-question-timeframes).
Katarzyna Zysk of Norway’s Institute for Defense Studies, told him that “there is no doubt that Russia is willing to build the new warships,” but its current time frames and scope are “another question” entirely given Russia’s economic difficulties, including those resulting from the sanctions regime.
Since Vladimir Putin called in 2013 for a boost in Russia’s military presence in the Arctic, Russian naval planners have come up with a variety of proposals for new ships, including next-generation nuclear-powered icebreakers that Moscow claims will be able to “cross the North Pole in any direction, any time of year, in any ice thickness” (izvestia.ru/news/624429).
Zysk says that Russia’s program envisages three stages: “First, building ships with focus on the littoral zone with the Steregushchij class corvette as the main ship; second, constructing vessels intended for long-range operations, with new frigates of the Admiral Gorshkov class as the main asset, and at the third stage, building a new class of destroyers.”
If that program is realized, Russia would represent a far larger threat in the region; but the Norwegian expert points out that “Russia has been struggling with implementing the program even at the first stages due to economic, financial, as well as structural problems in the military-industrial complex, which continues to struggle with corruption, ineffective use of resources and exorbitant prices, as well as waning expertise and professional skills.”
At present, she says, the Russian navy is enthusiastic as is the Russian political elite, but “the future of the surface shipbuilding programs” has “fragile foundations.” That is because Moscow “has been prioritizing warfare over welfare in the past few years, financing the military build-up on the expense of health budget, social spending and education. This comes with a high social price, as the steep fall in living standards has demonstrated.”
Moreover, the shipbuilding effort has been hampered by Western sanctions which have meant that Russian construction firms cannot buy gas turbine engines from Ukraine or diesel engines from Germany as they had planned. There are no good substitutes at present for either, Zysk suggests.
Kristian Åland of the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment agrees. He doubts that Russia will be able to put the new class of destroyers to sea before 2025 “at the earliest,” far later than Moscow claims or that many Western commentators fear. He adds that the icebreaker program is also likely to be delayed given “technological or financial constraints.”
This will have other consequences for Russia, Zysk says. “If Russia [ends] up not being able to pay salaries, the naval construction and other military projects will obviously be negatively affected … Broader consequences such as political instability, domestic, as well as in terms of foreign policy, are among likely outcomes,” she says.
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Russia Population Set to Decline by 50 Percent This Century, Moscow Demographer Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, August 11 – Unless there are radical changes in government policies and in the family size preferences of Russians, the population of the Russian Federation will decline by the end of the century from 140 million now to only 70 million in 2100, according to Yury Krupnov of Moscow’s Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development.
Speaking on the “Govorit Moskva” radio station this week, Krupnov said that the recent uptick in the birthrate reflects the increased share of women in prime child-bearing cohorts rather than government policies or changes in the proclivity of Russians to have more children rather than fewer (ng.ru/news/551343.html).
But that generation of women is about to be replaced by one that be 70 percent smaller in 2025 than the one in 2010, and the result will be a demographic decline far steeper and deeper than even those Russia experienced in the 1990s, the Moscow expert said. That will half the population of the country by 2100, and Russia will “simply die out.”
The Russian government has failed to develop a complex of measures to address this challenge, he said, arguing that the Kremlin’s much-ballyhooed “maternal capital will not change the situation.”
Krupnov also said that those who believe immigration can stave off this disaster are wrong. Indeed, by failing to prevent the influx of illegal immigrants, he continued, there are now approximately 12 million illegals in Russia, people who live by their own rules and who have become “an unseen state within a state” (utro.ru/articles/2016/08/09/1293170.shtml).
Ukraine denies it is attempting to regain control of the disputed territory by force
'Time has run out' for fleeing officials, Turkish minister warns
The Crimea crisis has come from nowhere but the Russian president has form for military adventures in Olympic years, says Luke Harding
The situation in Crimea looks ominous. Russia’s FSB spy agency said on Wednesday that it had foiled a series of attacks by armed Ukrainians on the peninsula. Minutes later, Vladimir Putin accused Kiev’s pro-western government of choosing terror over peace. Meanwhile, largely unnoticed by the outside world, Russia has been stealthily shipping military vehicles to Crimea, which Putin annexed in the spring of 2014.
What is going on? As ever in the opaque world of neo-Kremlinology, nobody quite knows. But two years after Putin sent “little green men” – actually undercover Russian special forces soldiers – to overrun Crimea, another military offensive seems distinctly possible. Crimea’s “parliament” said Ukraine had already launched an undeclared war. Ukraine says the supposed plot is FSB fiction.
Continue reading...Russia and Ukraine step up security amid tension over Crimeaby Shaun Walker in Moscow
Putin boosts ‘anti-terror’ measures at Ukraine frontier with annexed Crimea as Poroshenko puts troops on combat alert
Russia and Ukraine stepped up security on the de facto border between Crimea and mainland Ukraine on Thursday, a day after Moscow accused Kiev of planning terror attacks on the peninsula.
The alleged incidents, which have raised tensions over Crimea to the highest level since Russiaannexed the region from Ukraine in 2014, took place over the weekend. Russia’s FSB security service claims to have detained a Ukrainian terror cell with 20 homemade explosive devices inside Crimea, and repelled fire from across the border in a separate incident. The FSB said one of its officers and a Russian soldier died during the clashes.
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Russia accuses Ukraine of igniting border clash in Crimea
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Nobody seems to like Russia this summer. Except Donald Trump.
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British Military 'Outgunned By Russia'
Sky News The leaked report, seen by The Times, suggests the UK and NATO are "struggling to catch up" with Russia when it comes to certain aspect of modern warfare. It says that Russia is using technology better and has more advanced 'hybrid' warfare tactics. Russia can outgun British troops, leaked report suggestsTelegraph.co.uk Was report on bad guy Russia's military superiority deliberately leaked to score MoD funding?RT Fears grow Russia is using the Ukraine battlefield to rehearse for war with the WestMirror.co.uk Business Insider -The Times (subscription) -The Australian all 58 news articles » |
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NATO Plays It Cool as Russia and Turkey Grow Closer
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Immigration Sparks Negative Views From U.S. to Russia in Study
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What Russia and Turkey Bring to Syria
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Suspected gas attack on Aleppo hours before Russia-backed ceasefire comes into force
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Russia Accuses Ukraine Of 'Terrorist' Attack In Crimea
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Russian bombers destroy ISIS chemical weapons plant near Raqqa, Syria
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Turkey offers Russia joint operations against ISIL
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New York Times |
Google Fined for Breaking Russian Antitrust Rules With Android
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Russia Fines Google $6.75 Million in Antitrust Case
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Dispute Between Russia and Ukraine Over Crimea Accusations Escalates
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Britain and Russia must 'normalise' their relations, Boris Johnson tells the Kremlin
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RT |
Turkey to resume airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, asks Russia to fight 'common enemy'
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Russia announces war games after accusing Ukraine of terrorist plot
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US Democrats blame Russia for cyber attacks
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he has instructed all military units near Russian-occupied Crimea and in the easterly Donbas region to be at the highest level of combat readiness, following Russian allegations of a Ukrainian incursion into Crimea.
(Reuters) - One of three schoolgirls who left London in February of 2015 to join Islamic State has died, her family lawyer told Reuters on Thursday.
An international group of researchers has estimated the little-understood Greenland shark may live as long as 500 years—which would make it the longest-living vertebrate on the planet.
A trio of Republican lawmakers put out a preliminary report Thursday accusing the U.S. military’s Central Command of producing skewed intelligence assessments that exaggerated American progress in helping Iraq’s armed forces combat Islamic State.
Adam Driver, the terrorism suspect killed by Canadian police Wednesday night, had planned to detonate explosives in an urban center during rush hour within 72 hours, police said.
The FBI alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that a suspect pledged allegiance to ISIS over video and was preparing for an “immediate attack” in Canada, police said according to the BBC. Authorities identified the suspect as Driver, 24, who had already been under a court order restricting his movements and was being monitored by police after he was arrested for backing ISIS online last year.
“Obviously it was a race against time,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mike Cabana at a news conference Thursday.
According to Cabana, they quickly found Driver in a taxi in Strathroy, Ontario, when he detonated an explosive device in the back of the cab and injured both himself and the taxi driver. He was about to detonate a second when police officers shot and killed him.
In the video the FBI gave police, Driver wore a mask and expressed his plans to carry out an attack. “You will pay for everything you brought against us,” he said.
[BBC]
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How the Islamic State Militant Group Was Founded, Gained Influence by webdesk@voanews.com (Sharon Behn, Jeff Seldin)
Known as Islamic State, the group of hard-line jihadists that once dominated large areas of Iraq and Syria is infamous for its sheer brutality, including beheadings, drownings, burning people alive, rape, and the promotion of slavery. Initially a largely Sunni Arab group, IS grew out of the terrorist organization known as al-Qaida in Iraq (AQ-I) led by Jordanian Abu Musab al Zarqawi in 2004. AQ-I fed off the deep sense of Sunni disenfranchisement after the United States decided to disband...
