#Protesters
in Melbourne disrupt the Land Forces International Land Defence
Exposition, where military business is showcasing new weaponry and
technology.
Dat is €1,4 mrd per boot. Meer dan Ko
Colijn
(https://broekstukken.blogspot.com/2018/07/de-onderzeeboot-en-het-kwartetten-van.html)
in 2018 voorspelde (zelfs als je inflatie verrekent) voorspelde en
die werd van overdrijven beticht door onze nationale
opperveiligheidsdeskundige. *** #Norway
“decided to normalize its practice for exporting defense material
and multi-purpose goods for military use to #Turkey.” This changes
comes 5 years after imposing the ban because of Ankara’s military
operation in northern #Syria.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/11092024
*** Terwijl op
hoger onderwijs een miljard wordt bezuinigd en cultuur en jeugdzorg
worden uitgekleed investeert het rechtse kabinet 2,4 miljard euro in
de krijgsmacht. Volgens de regering “na decennia van bezuinigingen”
maar dat is apert onjuist, stelt @CTWnl
https://stopwapenhandel.org/geen-nieuwe-wapenwedloop/
*** Tariq Ali on
US & UK arming Israel’s war on Gaza, Pakistan protests &
macron’s embrace of the right.
*** Some villains
are fitted to cooperate with even when military business is the issue
at stake.
Updates on the JV between #Saudi
Arabian Military Industries #SAMI and #Hanwha Group to localize air
defense systems in the #Kingdom.https://www.tacticalreport.com/daily/62973
*** The leaders
of the #EU have, on the face of it, delivered on a promise made
following #Putin’s invasion of #Ukraine to end the #export of EU
goods, machinery & parts critical to Russia’s war effort.
*** Controle
export strategische goederen gebruikt als wapen i.p.v.
wapenbeheersing.
Henk Overbeek, hoogleraar aan de Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam: “(De Verenigde Staten) probeert de
voortgang van de Chinese economie en Chinese bedrijven te belemmeren
in de ontwikkeling van geavanceerde technologieën. De nieuwe CEO van
ASML dit ook duidelijk heeft gemaakt. Hij zei dat de Amerikaanse
beperkingen eerder waren ingegeven door economische overwegingen dan
door nationale veiligheidsoverwegingen, en door een poging om de
vooruitgang van China op het gebied van geavanceerde technologie te
vertragen.”
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6327113/asml-topman-wantrouwt-beperkingen-die-vs-oplegt-voor-handel-met-china.html
Updates concerning the joint
venture between #Saudi Arabian Military Industries #SAMI and
#L3Harris, including systems eyed for development and future
collaboration opportunities between the two companies. [behind
paywall] https://www.tacticalreport.com/daily/62966
*** When you've a
dangerous northern neighbour exporting its arms to cause death and
havoc.
The #Netherlands picked #Israeli firm
#Rafael to supply an upgrade for the country’s more than 200
medium-range anti-tank missile launchers that will boost combat
range, for an investment of as much as €250 million.
National Association of Defence
Industries of Ukraine #NAUDI has stated that the export of arms from
the excess capacity of the defence industry will bring billions of
dollars to #Ukraine.
*** A flexibility
exercise to put Wagenknect on the wrong side of history, as she
participated in a "peace demonstration" (quotation marks by
JP Oped writer) which defended Israel, but also stated this doesn't
mean support of the war by Netanyahu as if it were self-defence.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-817175
Wagenknects'party
#BSW even began to demand the imposition of a German arms embargo on
Israel. "The death in Gaza and Israel's attacks on its neighbors
must stop." As did do some other mentioned left parties in
Europe.
*** #NATO member
intervention of neigbours air space.
The Iraqi military said it downed a
#Turkish #drone over the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday as
Ankara kept up its operations against #Kurdish militants inside
#Iraq.
*** The #Damen
build and delivered #warship for the China allied #Pakistani Navy,
PNS Hunain, visited Oman as part of its regional maritime security
patrol. During its maiden visit, the ship engaged in a naval exercise
with a vessel from the Navy of #Oman.
*** The Defense
News opinion piece of 10 Aug. by John Nagl and Daniel Rice ignores
the historical experience of cluster munition use while calling on
the 23 NATO states currently party to the Convention on Cluster
Munitions (CCM) to withdraw and resume production of these horrific
weapons.
To do so would irreparably damage the
credibility of these countries, set back decades of progress towards
better legal protection of civilians in armed conflict and betray the
commitment to a rules-based international order which NATO countries
and many others seek to defend, including in the current
Russia-Ukraine conflict.
*** Laten we
eerlijk zijn: het maken van #wapens ís nu eenmaal cru. Het zijn geen
sierobjecten.
Misschien moet het allemaal eens wat
minder schimmig. Maar eerlijkheid is moeilijk als je diep van binnen
weet dat je in een #business werkt die naar lijken stinkt.
*** It seems that
#China’s Ministry of Commerce had adjusted its #export control
measures on unmanned aerial vehicles (#UAVs or #drones). New policy
includes tightening some restrictions & relaxing others.
The amendments come into force on 1st
September 2024.
*** US arming of
Israel, Ukraine & stockpiling large quantities of weapons for a
potential war with China puts strains on US’s weapons manufacturing
base, leading to policy advice that would super-size its already
enormous Military Industrial Complex #MIC.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/military-industrial-complex-2669002574/
*** #Serbia,
#France ink deal for 12 #Rafale #fighters.
President Vučić of Serbia was quoted
by press saying that his country will received 9 single-seat Rafales
and three two-seaters, delivered by 2029, with a price tag of €2.7
billion ($2.99 billion).
*** A blog I
wrote in 2012 started with Hamid #Karzai, the man who led the #Afghan
government at the time: "Men are fundamental and women are
secondary."
Is Myanmar Junta Turning to Russia’s
Wagner as Relations With #China Sour? While "the Chinese want to remain
the sole foreign actor in #Myanmar’s civil wars"
*** Horrible war
is also advertisement for state-of-the-art weaponry:
Like others, the UAE’s military and
intelligence agencies are closely monitoring the performance of
advanced weapons and warfare systems used in the Ukraine War.
https://www.tacticalreport.com/daily/62949
*** A strange
clip with a top-20 of arms exporting nations. It starts in 1960 and
ends in 2024. See countries: moving over time (e.g. Israel, S.
Korea), claiming the no. 1 position (USA), change name (USSR->
Russia), or even disappear from the list (India).
*** Opinion: #AI
must be prioritised across #US military programs & platforms, or
else America risks losing the AI race to #China.
*** Recently
relations between #Azerbaijan & #Turkey have been abnormal cool.
To observers who have seen the close connection between both this may
come as a surprise. @bahruz_samad explains why the Gaza-Israeli war
plays a role aswell as the views of Erdogan.
https://oc-media.org/opinions/opinion-azerbaijans-cooling-relations-with-turkey/
*** The #US is
seeking an arms #embargo on both sides of #Sudan’s conflict and is
open to working with any committed party, including Russia and China,
to expand humanitarian aid and stop the war, the U.S. envoy to Sudan
said on Friday. https://sudantribune.com/article289910/
*** #Qatar &
#Sweden are said to airm for strengthened military ties following a
series of high-level #meetings between the CoS of the Qatari Armed
Forces and top Swedish #military officials. the CoS had a meeting
with the CEO #Saab to discuss 'defence'.
https://www.tacticalreport.com/daily/62940
*** The State
Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign
Military Sale to the Government of Tunisia of 65’ SAFE Archangel
Boats and related elements of logistics and program support for an
estimated cost of $110 million.
https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/tunisia-65-safe-archangel-boats
't Israëlische leger gebruikt
Palestijnse gevangenen als menselijk schild in Gaza. Dat meldt de
Israëlische krant Haaretz na een uitgebreid onderzoek. NGO bevestigt
het onderzoek en spreekt van 'systematische praktijken'.
'Our lives are more important than
their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent
as human shields to search tunnels & houses before IDF soldiers
enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, sources
say;
*** Wow "EU deplores all loss of
civilian life. It notes with utmost concern the unacceptable number
of civilian casualties, especially children, as well as the
catastrophic levels of hunger and imminent risk of famine caused by
the insufficient entry of aid into #Gaza,"
but at the same time EU members continue arms exports to Jeruzalem
with its ethnic cleansing policy & decades of land grab on the
West-Bank.
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-geneva/att-csp10-eu-general-statement_en
It seems Israel as an ally is more
important for Brussels than human lives are. *** A report
earlier this month that #Huawei is producing an #AI chip on par with
#Nvidia’s H100, the most powerful graphics processing unit #GPU
chip on the market, is yet another indication that US policy denying
#China access to technology isn’t working.
https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/us-export-controls-china-likely-backfiring
Words vs Action: To end armed
#conflicts, restrict global #arms trade. Global South must reject
injustice and resist becoming mere markets for Western arms. For the merchants of war, the
collective pain and misery of whole nations is dwarfed by the
lucrative deals of billions of dollars generated from weapons sales.
Philippine
#ambassador to the #Netherlands B. Ledda received #DAMEN Shipyards
area director for the Asia-Pacific Region R. Briene in The Hague on
july 3, 2018. They discussed possibilities of shipbuilding and vessel
manufacture in the #Philippines.
*** Arundhati Roy, the
writer, is urging India to slam the brakes on its arms sales to
Israel, warning that persisting in this bloody business will
permanently tarnish India with the stain of the ongoing genocide in
Gaza. https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/486721
*** De bewapening
en #wapenhandel met juridische middelen aan banden leggen, kan
onderdeel zijn van een bredere vredesstrategie. Maar zonder politieke
campagne, zonder druk van politici en maatschappelijke organisaties
in de media en op straat, schieten wet...
https://stopwapenhandel.org/oorlog-bestrijden-met-juridische-middelen-werkt-dat/
*** Ukraine is
free to use Canadian-donated tanks & armoured vehicles inside
Russia, the DoD said.
*** An #US Army
Intelligence Analyst pleads guilty to charges of 1) #conspiracy to
obtain and disclose national defence Information, 2) #export control
violations and 3) #bribery.
*** More uniform
approach to dual-use export control in the EU to be expected. New
types of technologies and goods are being used in warfare causing a
need for refinement to existing export control lists. In response,
Western leaders call for uniformising trade controls; however, this
appears to be just as tricky.
https://schjodt.com/news/modernized-ecom-regulation-provides-clarity-for-the-satellite-value-chain
*** ‘Developments
in arms production and the effects of the war in Ukraine’—New
external article in Defence and Peace Economics from SIPRI’s
Lorenzo Scarazzato, @Xiaoo_l, @NanTianSA and @dielopesilva.
Read it here
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2024.2381784
Nederlandse commando's #KCT hebben
februari-mei 2024 de #Ivoriaanse special forces les gegeven
in terrorismebestrijding en kregen rondedans & liederen als
waardering.
*** #Dutch #navy
announced its intention to equip its new frigates with robotic ships
to increase their anti-submarine warfare capabilities, without
expanding the pressure on its human resources. #drones
https://meta-defense.fr/en/2024/08/10/robotic-ships-asm-navy-netherlands/
*** #Damen
Shipyards gaat meebouwen aan een fregat voor de #Colombiaanse marine.
Het wordt 't eerste fregat dat in dat land wordt gebouwd. Damen
levert de technologie en de onderdelen. Het schip wordt naar een
model van Damen gebouwd en wordt 107,5 meter lang.
*** #Elbit Systems
announced on Thursday that it secured a contract worth $130 million
to supply Iron Fist Active Protection Systems to #BAESystems
#Hägglunds.
The APS will be installed on CV90
Infantry Fighting Vehicle over a 5½ year period.
There's a clear risk
that weapons and military equipment directly or indirectly exported
to Israel will be used to commit serious crimes against civilians in
#Gaza. Any state continuing to transfer arms risks becoming complicit
in violations of international humanitarian law.
Amnesty’s
latest research has confirmed that large amounts of weapons from
#China, #Russia, Serbia, #Turkey, #UAE and Yemen among others have
made it into the hands of #Sudanese combatants accused of serious
violations including war crimes.
https://amnesty.ca/activism-guide/protect-civilians-gaza-sudan/
*** A UK
guidance for academics in fields where there is a high risk it could
be used for military purposes, explaning: - how to assess if the UK’s
export controls apply - when research might be exempt - how to check
if an export licence is needed.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/export-controls-applying-to-academic-research
*** Investeer in
klimaatrechtvaardigheid, niet in oorlog! – 21-28/09/24 – Tijdens
de mondiale actieweek voor vrede & klimaatrechtvaardigheid
organiseren groepen wereldwijd allerlei activiteiten. Iedereen kan
meedoen met een eigen activiteit. Bedenk ook iets!
https://www.globalinfo.nl/nieuws/actieweek-voor-vrede-en-klimaatrechtvaardigheid/
*** FOLLOWING the news
that the UK government has delayed making a decision on arms exports
to Israel, War On Want, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and
Campaign Against Arms Trade released the following joint statement:
A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020
organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to
remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on
federal arms smuggling charges.
