Jane's Defence Weekly Vol 42 Issue 02 Jan 12 2005

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Weight of disaster
Militaries react to tsunami crisis
● US budget cuts likely – p8-9

● Israeli industry moves
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Romania has 8 The Americas

Romanian MoD; 0590511 increased its Rumsfeld moves to restrain soaring spending plans
commitment to US Air Force eyes rapid satellite capability
the EU-led
peacekeeping 11 Europe
force in Bosnia Russia’s 2005 National Defence Order confirmed
and Herzegovina British Army’s IFPA programme is pushed ahead
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of four IAR-330 NORINCO extends artillery range
Puma transport
helicopters 17 Middle East/Africa
Israeli firms take major step to consolidation
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HEADLINES – ASIAN QUAKE

Indian Ocean militaries
Staff
Editor Peter Felstead
Land Forces Editor Christopher F Foss
Aviation Editor Damian Kemp
survey tsunami damage

Naval Editor Richard Scott
Features Editor Melanie Bright
Business Editor David Mulholland
Washington DC Bureau:
Bureau Chief Andrew Koch
Reporters Joshua Kucera, Michael Sirak
Asia Pacific Editor Robert Karniol JDW correspondents and Asia-Pacific Editor Robert Karniol in Thailand provide a preliminary
Middle East Editor Robin Hughes picture of military losses caused by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December
T
Senior Production Editor Kelvin Gosnell
Chief Sub Editor Lisa Zanardo he tsunami that devas-
Senior Sub Editor Susie Kornell tated areas around the
Sub Editors Chris Evenden, Karen Deans Indian Ocean following a
Group Technical Editor Rupert Pengelley powerful undersea earth-
Aerospace Consultant Nick Cook quake on 26 December
Administrative Assistant Marian Chiles hurt defence forces around the
Production Controller Melanie Aris region as well as the communities
e-Publishing Alexander Garrett, Ray Trott where they are based.
The tidal waves caused extensive
Publisher Jonathan Grevatt casualties and property damage and
Group Managing Director Alfred Rolington prompted the largest international
relief operation the world has seen
Correspondents stretching from Thailand to East
The Americas: Africa. The four countries worst Sandhayak-class survey ships INS Sarvekshak (right) and INS Sutlej (left) in
Scott Gourley; José Higuera; Sharon Hobson; affected – India, Indonesia, Sri Sri Lanka’s Galle harbour, home of naval base SLNS Dakshina, which was severely
Jeremy McDermott; Pedro Paulo Rezende; Lanka and Thailand – together damaged on 26 December INS; 0590530
Cesar Cruz Tantalean account for more than 95 per cent of
the 150,000 people killed based on for land in higher areas from the number of military bases and bar-
Asia/Pacific: early January estimates. civil administration,” he said. racks have been slightly damaged”
Iqbal Athas; Rahul Bedi; Farhan Bokhari; Details of the damage to military Naval jetties on the Andaman but most bases continue to “func-
Ian Bostock; Yihong Chang; Anthony Davis; forces and facilities in the four coun- Islands were partially damaged but tion normally”.
Shim Jae Hoon; Shinichi Kiyotani; tries most seriously hit remain no naval assets were destroyed, This assessment raises a number
Ghazi Mahmud Iqbal; Robert Keith-Reid; unclear, in part because of the prior- including radars. The jetty at the of suspicions in view of the large
Wendell Minnick; Phillip Mckinnon ity being given to relief work and Campbell Bay Coast Guard Base military presence in Aceh, where
also the element of secrecy prevalent on the Nicobar Islands was also par- operations against the separatist
Europe: as several countries remain reticent tially damaged, as was the airstrip, Free Aceh Movement have been
Hans G Andersson; John Berg; about providing detailed informa- but both were made functional in a under way since 1976. Jakarta has
Piotr Butowski; Phillip S Clark; tion due to security concerns. short period. There was no damage an estimated 40,000 security per-
Thomas Dodd; Tim Glogan; In India, Rahul Bedi reports that at INS Karadip, the naval base on sonnel in the province, including
Grzegorz Holdanowicz; David Ing; Henry the tsunami swept away the Indian Kamorta Island. TNI and police, and the latter report
Ivanov; Jiri Kominek; Zoran Kusovac; J A C Air Force (IAF) Carnic base on On India’s mainland, Madras extensive losses.
Lewis; Georg Mader; Nikolai Novichkov; Tim Nicobar Island in the Andaman Sea (Chennai) port was partially dam- Local media reports say police
Ripley; Lale Sariibrahimoglu; Radu Tudor; and also punched a temporary hole aged but is now functional. No sources indicate that at least three
Theodore Valmas; Paolo Valpolini in the nation’s security set-up. naval assets there or other military armoured vehicles are “missing”
Twenty-seven IAF personnel of assets elsewhere along the coun- together with two helicopters and
Middle East/Africa: some 1,700 posted on the base died try’s east coast were affected. six patrol craft. Eight police dormi-
Segun Adeyemi; Alon Ben-David; and 75 others remain missing In Indonesia, Aceh province in tories were also destroyed.
Nicholas Blanford; Muhammed Najib; nearly two weeks after the disaster northern Sumatra was worst hit of The TNI have three major bases
Helmoed-Römer Heitman struck. Carnic’s 2,744 m runway any area in the region. Jessica Sal- in Aceh together with an undeter-
has been cut to 1,524 m by the water labank reports that the armed forces mined number of smaller facilities:
NATO and EU affairs: Luke Hill but six maritime-version Mi-8 heli- (TNI) appear to be downplaying the Sabang Naval Base, which includes
UN: Thalif Deen copters there escaped damage. military impact. a naval air station; Kalijati Air Base,
The IAF Carnic base is India’s About 400 TNI personnel may also in Sabang; and the Banda Aceh
Email the editors: [email protected] strategic outpost on the country’s have been killed according to early army base, where the KODAM
eastern boundary and had been January estimates, said a military (Military Regional Command)
expanded following the formation spokesman, although this figure Iskandar Muda is headquartered.
three years ago of the Andaman and could include family members. He These are in areas hard-hit by the
Nicobar tri-service command. also said that no major air or naval tsunami, with some reports stating
The newly appointed chief of air platforms were damaged, acknowl- that some 80 per cent of the town of
staff, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi, edging damage only to around a Banda Aceh was destroyed.
ruled out relocating Carnic but said dozen military cars and “a number From Sri Lanka, Iqbal Athas is
that some of the officers’ quarters of small boats and dinghies”. unable to confirm military casual-
would be shifted. “We have asked The spokesman added that “a ties but says sources indicate that
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the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil

Eelam (LTTE) lost an estimated
2,100 fighters. Both government Relief operations under way
and LTTE forces suffered extensive
damage to infrastructure. A massive multinational relief operation is port from Australia.
Initial assessments on the gov- under way in areas abutting the Indian • India: New Delhi has dispatched 11 naval
ernment side indicate that the army Ocean that were devastated by sea surges, vessels and an undetermined number of
camps at Kallady and Kalkudah in or tsunamis, following an undersea earth- helicopters to support relief operations in Sri
eastern Sri Lanka have been quake on 26 December. Lanka. Local reports state that over 1,000 An RAF C-17 transport aircraft about
destroyed, together with an unde- Estimates in early January place the death Indian troops and at least six helicopters are to be deployed to Banda Aceh
termined number of Forward toll at nearly 150,000 across seven Asian in Galle and Trincomalee as part of India’s DoD; 0590524
Defended Localities that divided countries and portions of East Africa, with $25 million relief effort.
security force positions from rebel nearly two million people requiring assis- • Japan: Three Japanese Maritime Self equipment to Aceh, Indonesia.
bases. The main naval base in the tance. Four countries were hardest hit by the Defence Force (JMSDF) vessels initially • US: Washington’s response includes an
south, SLNS Dakshina in Galle, disaster: Indonesia, with some 94,000 casu- joined search and rescue operations at sea array of warships and aircraft together with
was badly affected, together with alties; Sri Lanka, with at least 30,000 off the coast of Thailand, completing their more than 14,000 military personnel. The
naval facilities in Point Pedro, Man- confirmed dead; India, with some 15,000 assignment on 1 January. On 4 January tri- main assets deployed so far include the USS
alkadu, Kirinda and some sub-units people dead or missing; and Thailand, with service advance teams were deployed to Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group, with
north of Trincomalee. over 5,000 dead. prepare for the follow-up International Dis- four additional vessels, operating off the
The Sri Lankan armed forces did Military deployments in support of these aster Relief Team, which will operate in northern coast of Sumatra; the helicopter
not lose any air assets but one vessel, relief efforts saw several new developments. Indonesia. carrier USS Bonhomme Richard expedi-
the Haiqing-class fast attack craft Among them was the lifting of military sanc- This second-phase operation includes, tionary strike group, with seven additional
Parakramabahu, was driven ashore tions on Indonesia by the US so it could five Ground Self Defence Force helicopters, vessels, operating in Sri Lanka; the dock
in Galle and several inshore patrol supply spare parts for Jakarta’s C-130 trans- as well as a 200-strong medical team; three landing ship USS Fort McHenry, carrying
craft were sunk. Also, the armoury port aircraft, allowing for their better use in JMSDF ships with some 600 personnel for equipment and 400 marines to Indonesia;
at Nilaveli naval sub-unit was humanitarian operations. transport, supply and escort duties; and six container ships, each capable of storing
destroyed together with an undeter- Washington also announced plans to one or two Air Self Defence Force C-130 90,000 litres of fresh water and producing
mined number of coastal radars. deploy helicopters from South Korea. This transport aircraft with about 40 personnel more each day, en route to the region from
The LTTE suffered extensive reflects a shift to include a regional focus to transport material from a centralised Guam and South Korea; and a high-speed
damage at Chalai, the main base of aside from its primary mission in support of facility at Utapao, Thailand, to Sumatra. catamaran en route from Okinawa to Sat-
its naval arm, together with smaller South Korea’s defence. Also significant is • New Zealand: New Zealand’s participa- tahip, Thailand, with humanitarian relief that
Sea Tiger units along the northeast Japan’s decision to form a unified command tion is comprised of two C-130H transport will be used as a shuttle for military equip-
coast. This includes a number of structure for its military relief operations, aircraft and 43 additional defence person- ment and people between Thailand, Sri
boats sunk. which presages the planned integration in nel, including a medical team. Both Lanka and Indonesia.
In Thailand, the Royal Thai March 2006 of the three services under a transports are based in Jakarta, flying mis-
Navy (RTN) bore the brunt of revamped Joint Staff Office. sions to Aceh, and an air force Boeing 757
damage from tidal waves that dev- Major defence force deployments are: is operating between Australia and Indone-
astated the country’s Andaman • Australia: Canberra’s contribution is sia, ferrying passengers and freight.
coast. Army and air force facilities focused on Indonesia and so far includes • Pakistan: Islamabad has sent two naval
were unaffected as they are inland. provision of four C-130 Hercules transport vessels to Sri Lanka and Indonesia for res-
The RTN has one major naval aircraft ferrying equipment, stores and per- cue and relief operations. Included is a
base on the Andaman Sea – the Third sonnel; two C-130 Hercules and one Boeing Pakistan Navy marine expeditionary force to
Naval Area Command headquarters 707 transport aircraft, transporting equip- provide manpower. In addition, an air force
at Phang Nga – where 32 people ment, stores and personnel between C-130 transport aircraft was sent to Sri
were killed, including four navy per- Australia and Indonesia; one Beech King Air Lanka with relief equipment. Tsunami survivors rush towards a
sonnel; two sailors are missing. 350 light utility aircraft; and four UH-1H Iro- • Singapore: Singapore has deployed over USN SH-60 helicopter
The missing sailors were among quois helicopters. The naval vessel HMAS 650 uniformed personnel to provide relief PA; 0590523
eight aboard a T-213-class coastal Kanimbla, whose assets include two Sea for tsunami victims around the region, bud-
patrol craft, hull number 215, which King helicopters and two large landing craft, geting S$20 million (US$12.2 million) for The aircraft carrier battle group includes
sank in the heavy seas. The remain- supplement the deployment. their first two weeks of operations. The two embarked helicopter squadrons. The
ing six personnel were rescued. In Australia has also provided a water purifi- deployment includes a Landing Ship -Tank, Bonhomme Richard can carry over 40 heli-
addition, the Chao Phraya-class cation plant and a field hospital together with two Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and a 25- copters and has three landing craft air
guided missile frigate Kraburi was engineering, medical, logistics/loading and member medical team to Indonesia’s Aceh cushion (LCACs) stationed in its welldeck.
grounded and will take about two humanitarian relief personnel. An additional province. Two additional Chinooks and two Washington announced on 5 January that it
months to salvage while three 600 defence personnel are providing sup- Super Puma helicopters have been sent to is looking to significantly increase its overall
patrol craft were damaged. Thailand’s Phuket Island. commitment of helicopters in the region
While the small dock was unaf- • UK: London has deployed the frigate HMS from the 46 or so currently supporting relief
fected, a number of structures and Chatham and the repair ship Royal Fleet operations.
vehicles were destroyed at the naval Auxiliary Diligence. The former has two Other air assets deployed separately
base. The navy’s deputy chief of Lynx helicopters embarked while the latter is include 16 C-130 transport aircraft, nine P-3
staff, Vice Admiral Nopporn equipped with workshops and can provide reconnaissance aircraft, and four KC-135
Achawakhom, told local media that emergency electrical and fresh water sup- air-refuelling tankers . Longer-range C-17
damage to Phang Nga naval base plies as well as transport stores. Both are and C-5 aircraft are also flying supplies into
could be valued at up to Bt2 billion operating mainly in Sri Lanka. Royal Air the region.
($50 million). RAAF personnel deliver emergency Force air transports have also been active, Robert Karniol
This article was first available online on supplies to Indonesia PA; 0590522 including a C-17 heavy airlifter delivering JDW Asia Pacific Editor
7 January 2005
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HEADLINES
Disaster reaction
rekindles airlift
debate in Canada
SHARON HOBSON JDW Correspondent
Ottawa
T
he Canadian govern- them are 40 years old and this, com- “I don’t think the issue of strate- Canadian soldiers walk past a
ment may be ready to bined with a shortage of aircraft gic airlift ever really died,” said CC-130 in Afghanistan. The debate
relaunch a programme to technicians, means their availabil- David Rudd, president of the Cana- over replacement airlift capability
acquire strategic airlift ity rate is low. Canada also has four dian Institute of Strategic Studies. has been re-ignited by the Asian
after being severely criti- Airbus Industrie CC-150 Polaris A 2003 departmental study on the tsunami disaster
cised for the late dispatch of its (A310) strategic transport aircraft, necessity of an organic strategic Canadian Combat Forces Centre; 0530507
Disaster Assistance Response but they can only carry palletised airlift capability notes “the recent
Team (DART) to Sri Lanka in the freight and no rolling stock or Canadian deployment to
aftermath of the 26 December oversized cargo. Two are being Afghanistan was delayed over a tional requirement for an airlifter
tsunami. converted to air-to-air refuellers. month as Canada waited for US with a ramp, an ability to carry out-
DART was set up in 1996 to be in For most of its strategic air trans- strategic airlift resources” to size cargo, to travel 3,000 nm
place and operational within seven port needs, the military relies on the become available. without refuelling and a landing
days of a disaster, yet the Canadian US or chartered Antonov An-124 Rudd said the previous “Chré- capability on remote airfields
Forces (CF) were unable to deploy aircraft. tien-ite argument of ‘we’ve always 1,200 m-2,100 m-long.
the first of the team’s equipment The government is now feeling gotten there’ is okay if lives The project office was consider-
until 11 days after the tsunami first pressured to do something about are not at stake, but if this disaster ing a C$2 billion (US$1.63 billion)
hit. the airlift problem. Former Prime doesn’t expunge that rejoinder programme to either buy or lease six
This delay was attributed to Minister Jean Chrétien had decided from current discussion, then I’m Boeing C-17s or 12 Airbus A400Ms
different reasons by various gov- against acquiring strategic trans- not sure what will”. or alternatively to lease Antonov
ernment officials, but ultimately it ports, noting that “we have to In the wake of the Asian disaster, An-124s under an improved charter
appears to have been because the transport [troops] all the time and Graham said strategic airlift is solution.
CF had insufficient airlift available. we can rent planes. We don’t have something that the Canadian gov- This article was first available online
Defence Minister Bill Graham to have a series of planes on the tar- ernment will be looking at again and on 7 January 2005
said deploying the 200-member mac to transport them”. Some it will be considered as part of the
For more, go online
team along with their 225 tonnes of observers believe, however, that policy review which is nearing
equipment would take 24 CC-130 despite Chrétien’s decision, the completion. jdw.janes.com
tactical transport aircraft flights. acquisition programme was never Before the programme was ‘Canada cuts air transport hours’
Canada has 32 CC-130s but 19 of really scrapped. halted, the air force had an opera- (JDW 13 August 2003)
Australian ASLAVs to get more Protectors

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is to receive nine additional laser rangefinder to further optimise the accu-
additional Protector remote weapon stations (RWS) racy of the fire-control system.
from Kongsberg, company sources have told JDW. According to Kongsberg, this modification will also be
The systems will be delivered during February and are part of the upgrade programme for Protector units in ser-
to be integrated by the ADF in Melbourne on its 8 x 8 Aus- vice with the US Army. Other modifications include the
tralian Light Armoured Vehicles (ASLAVs). addition of an extended-range thermal imaging camera,
The order nearly doubles the number of Protector RWS stabilisation and improved software.
systems used by Australia. Ten units were ordered in July The upgrade will be implemented in the US Army from
2004 under a rapid acquisition initiative for service on June 2005.
ASLAVs in Iraq. The first five of these were delivered at Kongsberg sources said they expect the units
short notice in July 2004 and the remaining five in delivered to the ADF to undergo the same upgrade as
November. those in service with the US Army in order to continue
The configuration of the Australian Protector systems is a high level of commonality and interoperability between
The Kongsberg Protector remote weapon system almost identical to the more than 600 that are already in allies.
as installed on an ASLAV 8 x 8 armoured personnel service with the US Army’s Stryker Brigades. The only dif- Joris Janssen Lok JDW Special Correspondent,
carrier operated by the ADF Kongsberg; 0590529 ference is that the ADF units are equipped with an The Hague
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THE AMERICAS – BUDGET 2006
Rumsfeld moves to restrain

soaring spending plans
F
aced with mounting budget deficits
and soaring costs for the conflict in
Iraq, senior US defence officials want
With US military procurement plans greatly outpacing
to slash previous procurement plans
by as much as $30 billion over the anticipated finances, senior defence leaders have
next six years and shift additional funds to
the ground forces.
The reductions, in the forthcoming Fiscal
wielded the budget axe. Andrew Koch, Joshua Kucera
Year 2006 (FY06) budget, would affect most
major procurement programmes and may and Michael Sirak report
presage still deeper cuts after the next Quadren-
nial Defense Review (QDR) is completed later Kennedy-class aircraft carrier USS John F destroyers being cut, saving $2.5 billion. An
this year. Kennedy is growing, with the powerful Chair- LPD-17 amphibious transport dock ship would
The programmes affected include some of the man of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also be removed from spending plans, yielding
largest at the US Department of Defense (DoD): John Warner, calling proposed legislation that $950 million.
the F/A-22 Raptor air superiority fighter; would mandate the navy to retain 12 The DoD also ordered that only one Virginia-
the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft; air- aircraft carriers “very clever”. The class SSN will be built per year rather than
craft carriers; and Virginia-class DoD directive told the navy to doubling that number starting in FY09. Without
nuclear-powered attack sub- “retire one conventionally pow- the higher build rate, the US submarine fleet is
marines (SSNs). The moves were ered aircraft carrier in FY06”, expected to shrink from the current 54 vessels
outlined in an internal memoran- leaving only 11 carriers. unless existing hull lives can be extended sub-
dum called the Program Budget The air force has indicated it stantially. New classified studies by both the
Decision 753, which was signed by would try to stop Raptor pur- navy and DoD have said the future submarine
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wol- chases in FY08 at 180 aircraft. “We fleet could be shrunk to 40-45 boats and still
fowitz on 23 December. have seen a case for 380 to 400 F/A- meet the nation’s needs.
If implemented, the DoD will spend 22s,” outgoing Secretary of the Air Force James Also the build rate of the Virginias may never
$55 billion less in procurement than previously Roche told JDW on 5 January, “and we know of increase. The directive recommends spending
planned over the next six years – $25 billion of nothing that has changed our minds.” The cuts $600 million over the next six years “to design a
which would go to reorganise and equip army were made despite the air force’s preference to future undersea superiority system alternative”
forces bound for duty in Iraq. The remaining slash buys of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) to the Virginia-class and would include “consid-
$30 billion would be used to help reduce grow- instead. eration of a new propulsion system”. The navy’s
ing budget deficits. “Fiscal reality is beginning Certain senior Bush administration priorities, senior acquisition official, John Young, sug-
to settle in over the overall defence budget,” such as improving ballistic missile defence gested that looking for alternatives or
noted Pierre Chao, a defence budget analyst at systems, would also be cut. The directive calls adjuncts to the Virginia was a pru-
the Center for Strategic and International Stud- for $5 billion in cuts to missile defences over dent measure. He told JDW: “I
ies. six years. can’t hide from the fact the Vir-
With the US Army heavily involved in Iraq, One well-placed US defence source said the ginia is a $2.5 billion
the service would receive a larger overall slice proposal would effect developmental projects to submarine.” The navy took a
of the DoD funding pie. “The pendulum is cer- shoot down missiles in their boost phase, such as step toward affordability by
tainly swinging away from the air force and the the Airborne Laser and Kinetic Energy Inter- moving from Sea Wolf to Vir-
navy back towards the army as it becomes the ceptor programmes. The source said continuing ginia-class submarines, he said,
service of focus,” Chao said. Still, he and other efforts to field more mature programmes adding that with a potential new design
analysts said the shift could well be temporary to designed to protect the US homeland – such as “we may have to take another step”.
meet immediate needs in Iraq rather than a the Ground-based Midcourse Defense pro- For the US Marine Corps, the largest pro-
longer-term move favouring ground forces. gramme – would be largely unscathed. Also left gramme cut would be to the V-22 Osprey
The army would receive the additional $25 untouched would be those programmes that pro- tilt-rotor aircraft. The service was instructed to
billion starting in FY07 to cover the costs of tect deployed troops, such as the Patriot delay moving to full production of the aircraft
reorganising its units and adding additional Advanced Capability-3 and Terminal High- by one year, which will mean 22 fewer V-22s
equipment such as body armour, night-vision Altitude Area Defense systems. over the next five years at a savings of
goggles and blue-force tracking systems. Ser- $1.2 billion, said Ward Carroll, a programme
vice officials said that while the additional funds spokesman. By law, the US is required to buy 11
are not likely to speed up reorganisation of A shrinking navy Ospreys a year: the minimum amount that
active army units, it could do so for the reserves. The key reductions for the navy will be to its manufacturers Bell and Boeing said they need
Already some of the proposed cuts are being fleet of ships, submarines and aircraft carriers. to maintain production.
challenged by Congress. Support for legislation Shipbuilding plans would take a big hit, with Another top service priority, the Expedi-
that would block the navy from retiring the two of the navy’s DD-X next-generation tionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), would have its
TLFeBOOK
initial operating capability delayed by

two years, from 2008 to 2010.
What has been affected
Air force wings clipped C-130J
After surviving the first few years of The programme would be cancelled
Cancelled
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the Bush administration relatively Unmanned Combat Air Sys- after the marines buy all their KC-130J
unscathed, the air force has been asked tems programme and moves variants in 2006. Air force purchases
to accept more than $10 billion in reduc- $4.1 billion to the air force of the transport aircraft would cease.
tions to some of its major next- generation for the effort . Total savings: $5 billion.
weapons, with even its high-profile pro-
ject, the F/A-22 Raptor, not escaping the
budget axe. A beefed-up army Joint Common Missile
The programme for thousands of new close-air support
“We had anticipated that somewhere, Stretched thin by operations in Iraq and
missiles to arm US aircraft and helicopters would be
sometime this continued growth of the elsewhere, the army would receive a far
terminated but a new study would determine whether a
defence budget would be capped because larger share of the overall budget than in
future replacement is needed. Total savings: $2.4 billion.
of the deficit” and the costs of the war past years. The service would receive an
in Iraq, explained secretary Roche, additional $25 billion over five years to
acknowledging, however, that plans to pay for the conversion of its divisions into F/A-22 Raptor fighter
cut the Raptor fleet by one third, or 96 brigade-sized units of action. The funds Plans would have the air force stop buying the aircraft in 2008,
aircraft, before the QDR was would also help pay for new equipment meaning 96 fewer Raptors would be purchased. Total savings:
complete came as a sur- that those units need such as better com- $10.5 billion.
prise. munications, intelligence, surveillance,
Even reversing the and reconnaissance capabilities as they Shipbuilding
F/A-22 cuts, which the reorganise for deployment to Iraq and Navy surface shipbuilding would
secretary said if sus- Afghanistan. take a hit with plans cutting the
tained would not leave With the RAH-66 Comanche attack DD-X future destroyer by two
the air force with enough helicopter and Crusader 155 mm ships and the LPD-17 fleet by
Raptors to replace its F-15 self-propelled howitzer programmes one. Total savings: $3.5 billion.
fleet, would mean reductions in already cancelled, large army acquisition Avondale Alliance; 0094121
other programmes, he said. Already the plans would remain largely in place. The Submarines
limited funds may prevent the service only significant cut would be The navy would buy only one of its next-generation attack sub-
from advancing less-pressing initiatives terminating the Joint Common Missile marine, the Virginia class, per year rather than increasing to two
in the near term like a new ‘regional (JCM): the next-generation air-to-ground as previously planned. An additional $600 million, however,
bomber’, he told JDW. missile programme. According to the would be spent on designing an alternative undersea warfare
The C-130J transport aircraft pro- budget documents, the Joint Chiefs of platform. Total savings: $4.67 billion.
gramme would also be cut starting in Staff are to revisit the need for a new mis-
FY06, reducing the air force’s total buy by sile in two years. “We think that leaves the V-22 Aircraft
51 aircraft – a saving of almost door open for bringing the
$5 billion. Roche said the air force already programme back,” a senior army official
Production increases would carriers
be delayed by a year, One conventionally
“had anticipated ending” C-130J procure- told JDW. meaning 22 fewer aircraft powered aircraft carrier,
ment at the end of a six-year production Anticipating delays to the JCM, the would be built over the next probably the USS John F
contract that began in 2003. An earlier end DoD had already required the army to fund five years. Total savings: Kennedy, would be retired
would leave the service operating approx- the purchase of an additional 1,000 Hell- $1.25 billion. early, reducing the carrier
imately 50 C-130Js as part of an overall fire missiles in 2006 and 2007. Whether fleet from 12 to 11. Total
fleet of more than 500 C-130s. that buy will have to be expanded is not yet savings: $1.2 billion.
The plans would also hit other air clear, the official said. “There may have to
force programmes. Ending the Wind be more money put into Hell-
Corrected Munitions Dispenser- fire to extend that line for
Joint Strike Fighter
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The programme would survive

Extended Range programme would save another year or two,” he said. unscathed despite air force prefer-
about $404 million up to FY11 while the Further, army officials ences to cut its buys instead of the
next-generation E-10A surveillance and have themselves decided to F/A-22. One reason: US defense
battle-management aircraft programme terminate the Unmanned leaders are loath to anger key inter-
would be reduced by $600 million. The Combat Armed Rotorcraft, national programme partners also
nascent Transformational Satellite which was ended by the service helping in Iraq.
Unscathed
(TSAT) programme would also be cut by rather than as directed by the DoD.
$400 million. Arming for Iraq Future Combat
Notably, however the E-10A and TSAT After several years of
paying to reorganise and
Systems
programmes survived as did two other For more, go online Already delayed earlier, the
equip soldiers in Iraq
space initiatives: the Space Based Radar www.janes.com army’s key equipment
through supplemental
and the Advanced Extremely High Fre- modernisation programme
‘US nurtures its nuclear family’ funding, the army would
quency Satellite. The latter two would get a larger slice of the reg-
appears safe, although a study
(International Defence Review 1 January 2005)
actually receive more funds: ‘On a wing and a prayer’ ular defence budget for the on how it is to be integrated
$1.3 billion and $825 million. (JDW 22 December 2004) task. Cost: An additional with organisational changes to
The new directive would also mandate $25 billion over five years. combat units is due by April.
‘Gen Peter Schoomaker – US Army Chief of Staff’
that the air force take the lead for the Joint (JDW 20 October 2004)
TLFeBOOK
THE AMERICAS
In Brief US Air Force
AMRAAM contract for Raytheon
The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded
Raytheon a $200 million contract for 434
eyes rapid
satellite
AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-
to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) and The US Air Force and DARPA plan a demonstration of
associated equipment. The order includes Space-X’s Falcon 1 small-sized space launch vehicle in
160 full-rate production rounds for the mid-2005 to gauge the ability to execute a space mission upon
USAF, 46 missiles for the US Navy, five for short notice and place a light payload into orbit
capability
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the US Army and 223 AMRAAMs for

Canada and Poland under Foreign Military mined small satellite into orbit from the US missile test
Sales agreements. range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, said
Steven Walker, who heads the DARPA-air force pro-
USS Jimmy Carter delivered to navy gramme called Force Application and Launch from the
The USS Jimmy Carter, a SeaWolf MICHAEL SIRAK JDW Staff Reporter Continental US (FALCON).
(SSN-23)-class nuclear powered attack Washington, DC “We are asking Space-X to take their Falcon 1 vehi-
cle, put a payload on it of our choice and demonstrate
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submarine specially modified for intelli-
gence gathering, special forces and he US Air Force, along with the Defense responsive launch – going from beginning to end in
undersea missions, has been delivered to Advanced Research Projects Agency about a week,” Walker told JDW. Another goal is
the US Navy by maker General Dynamics (DARPA), plans to conduct a flight experi- affordability, he said, adding that the FALCON pro-
(GD) Electric Boat. The Jimmy Carter ment mid-year to see if it can rapidly place a gramme aims to conduct the mission for $5 million or
features a 100 ft, 2,500-tonne hull exten- light satellite payload into orbit aboard a less: a fraction of current launch costs. This amount
sion with a large sea interface that, GD said, small space launch vehicle. If successful, the demon- includes the cost of the booster and range operations,
“will support classified research, develop- stration could herald a new technology for space but does not include the price of the payload or its inte-
ment, test and evaluation efforts for naval access, said officials involved with the launch. gration with the launch vehicle, he noted.
special warfare missions”. The air force wants to have this responsive capability Falcon 1 is a two-stage liquid-fuelled rocket with a
around the end of the decade so that it could launch re-usable first stage that is recovered from the sea
L-3 awarded US Army INSCOM contract 455 kg-class communications and reconnaissance after use. Before government sponsorship, Space-X
L-3 Communications has won a $209 mil- satellites into low-Earth orbit within days or weeks of a carried out its development using its own funds. It is
lion contract to support the US Army request and have the satellites available for use within one of four small launch vehicle (SLV) designs
Intelligence and Security Command hours once orbiting in order to support theatre comman- currently being matured under FALCON. The others
(INSCOM), the company announced. While ders during operations. Currently the service requires are AirLaunch LLC’s air-dropped QuickReach
L-3 did not release details of the work to be many months and even years to prepare and execute a booster, Microcosm’s Eagle rocket and Lockheed
done, it said it was “focused on the areas of launch and then more time to clear a satellite for opera- Martin’s hybrid-powered yet-to-be-named SLV.
intelligence, force management and infor- tion once it is in place. This article was first available online on 7 December 2005
mation technology services”. “We believe that this is a very achievable capability,”
said Colonel William Dean, director of Development For more, go online
Lockheed Martin wins HIMARS contract and Transformation within Air Force Space Com- www.janes.com
The US Army and Marine Corps have mand’s Space and Missile Systems Center. “Certainly Read more of this story online
given Lockheed Martin a $109 million [for] the spacelift part of this, the technology readiness ‘US Air Force lays out space-launch plans’
contract for the High Mobility Artillery is there.” (JDW 8 September 2004)
Rocket System (HIMARS). The contract The demonstration, tentatively set for July, will fea- ‘US Congress puts clamps on space project’ (JDW 11 August 2004)
represents the third tranche in the pro- ture Space Exploration Technologies’ (Space-X’s) ‘US eyes global strike within two hours with hypersonics’
gramme’s low-rate initial production Falcon 1 launch vehicle carrying a yet-to-be-deter- (Jane’s International Defence Review August 2003)
phase and will cover 37 systems for the
army and one for the marines. Prototype
units have been used in Iraq and the first US Army selects strike UAV finalists
unit equipped is expected some time in
2005, the company said. The US Depart- The US Army has chosen teams led by Both platforms will have heavy fuel
ment of Defense plans to buy more than General Atomics and Northrop Grumman engines use and the Tactical Common
900 of the launchers, the company said. as finalists for its Extended Range/Multi- Datalink.
Purpose (ER/MP) unmanned aerial Both companies were given contracts of
DARPA urban warfare clarification vehicle (UAV). about $250,000. The two aircraft will be
In the article ‘DARPA funds urban warfare General Atomics, leading a team includ- tested at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, follow- General Atomics; 059012
technologies’ (JDW 5 January 2005) it was ing AAI and Sparta Inc, is proposing an ing which, in April, the army will select one
reported that DARPA had issued 37 aircraft called the Warrior which is based on to enter the system design and develop-
contracts to various companies, included the Predator MQ-1 UAV (top, right) but with ment phase. The total value of the
among which was Metal Storm. DARPA an increased payload ability to carry four programme is projected to be $900 million.
has since retracted the original announce- AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. Joshua Kucera
ment and said there were only 36 contracts Northrop Grumman is proposing the JDW Staff Reporter, Washington DC
awarded and that it named Metal Storm in Hunter II, based on the Heron medium-alti- This article first appeared online
error. tude long-endurance UAV (below, left). on 6 January 2005 Northrop Grumman; 059013
TLFeBOOK
EUROPE
Russia’s 2005 National France awards
M-51 contract
Defence Order confirmed France has awarded the first
instalment of a EUR3 billion
($4 billion) contract to French military
contractors for series production of the
new M-51 submarine-launched nuclear
NIKOLAI NOVICHKOV JDW Naval Editor ballistic missile, which will be
Moscow deployed aboard the French Navy’s
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strategic submarine fleet from 2010.
he Russian government has confirmed nental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), nine new military The instalment, worth EUR1.2 billion,
its 2005 National Defence Order (NDO): satellites and five carrier rockets. In addition, the army went to EADS Space Transportation (ST)
the biggest in the past few years. According will receive three battalions of T-90 MBTs (91 vehi- as prime contractor in the project. How-
to Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, the cles), three battalions of BTR-80 armoured personnel ever, a third of the funding – and over
federal budget of 2005 allocates Rb187 bil- carriers and the first battery of Iskander-M tactical mis- EUR1 billion of the total order – will go to
lion (US$ 6.7 billion) to the NDO. sile systems. Two new surface ships will be deployed to G2P, a joint venture established by
Ivanov said that the trend in recent years of the navy, while the air force will receive one upgraded Snecma Propulsion Solide and SNPE
increased spending on the NDO would be maintained and one new Tu-160 strategic bomber, the total fleet of Materiaux Energetiques, to supply the
and enhanced in 2005, noting that the federal bud- which will reach 15. Seven upgraded Su-27SM fighters weapon’s propulsion system. The M-51
get’s spending on the NDO amounted to Rb148 as well as nuclear and non-nuclear high-precision air- is one of France’s two new nuclear
billion in 2004, Rb113 billion in 2003 and Rb80 bil- to-surface cruise missiles will also be procured for the weapons programmes. The other is the
lion in 2002. air force. ASMP-A airborne nuclear missile that
The NDO spending figures revealed by the defence Analysts believe that most of the missiles purchased will be fitted to the Air Force’s Mirage-
ministry for 2002-03 are somewhat different from those in 2005 will be Topol-M silo-based ICBMs and their 2000 and Rafale fighters from the end of
officially published previously; it was originally mobile versions, which feature an enhanced ability to 2007.
reported that the NDO spend for 2002 amounted to overcome anti-missile defences. Other French contractors working on
Rb90 billion with Rb120 billion spent in 2003. “The range of the system’s use in combat has been the 9,000 km-range M-51, which will
Ivanov said that under the 2005 NDO Rb62.8 billion, broadened,” said Ivanov. “The targeting precision has replace the 6,000 km-range M-45 cur-
or 33 per cent of the funds, would be assigned to been nearly doubled and the precision ... has been rently aboard the submarine fleet, include
research and development (R&D); Rb112 billion, or 60 increased. The probability of detecting a flying missile Thales, Sagem and warship builder
per cent, to procurement of series-produced military is now much smaller.” Direction des Constructions Navales.
hardware; and Rb11.8 billion, or 6 per cent, to the repair Ivanov noted that purchases of new weapons for the The contract covers the series produc-
of military hardware at defence ministry facilities. Russian Army and defence R&D would now be con- tion of M-51 over a 10-year period while
An attempt will be made in 2005 to overcome the ducted through a single directorate incorporated by the EADS ST will be responsible for main-
negative R&D trend of recent years, under which only a defence ministry, with the other service arms subse- taining the missiles over their entire
few projects have successfully been concluded. For quently joining this entity. Ivanov believes this will service life.
example, no more than 2-3 per cent of R&D work was ensure the same prices of military equipment for all In total, France will spend EUR8 billion
successfully completed in the navy compared with the Russian service arms. on the new weapon designed to carry six
required annual completion rate of 20 per cent. Under Ivanov also noted that the defence ministry is con- independently targetable warheads.
this year’s NDO it is planned that work will be com- cerned over the growing prices of fuel and lubricants as EUR5 billion is being spent on the mis-
pleted in 300 areas of R&D. well as power and transportation. “If next year the rates’ sile’s development, which began in 2001
The breakdown of the NDO equipment spend by ser- growth exceeds the target figures, the defence ministry and is now nearing completion.
vice arm sees around 40 per cent of the funds assigned will insist on revision of its budget,” he said. The new weapon will first be deployed
to the land forces and 20 per cent each going to the air This article was first available online on 7 January 2005 aboard the submarine Le Terrible in
force and navy. About Rb20 billion will be channelled 2010, and then on France’s three other
towards addressing inter-service tasks, including For more, go online Triomphant-class strategic missile sub-
reconnaissance, logistic support and others. www.janes.com marines: Le Triomphant, Le Vigilant and
This year Russia will start making package purchases ‘Russian defence budget hits all-time high’ Le Temeraire.
of arms and military equipment. According to Ivanov, (JDW 1 September 2004) Although the number of M-51s to be
2005 will see the purchase of seven strategic interconti- Su-27SM (Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft) produced is classified, the four sub-
marines can each carry 16 missiles.
The first test firing of the M-51 is set
for the end of 2005.
J A C Lewis
JDW Correspondent, Paris
For more, go online

Among Moscow’s www.janes.com
acquisition plans for
‘France to award M-51 ballistic missile
2005, the Russian Air contract before year end’
Force is set to get seven (JDW 1 December 2004)
upgraded Su-27SM M-51 (Jane’s Underwater Warfare
fighters Systems)
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TLFeBOOK
EUROPE
British Army’s
This will be followed by a unitary
warhead version.
Following a competition, the DPA ARTHUR radars
last year awarded MBDA a research
for Czech Army
IFPA programme
contract to extend the range of
GMLRS beyond 100 km to further The Czech Army ordered three truck-
increase its capabilities. mounted Artillery Hunting Radar
The UK has already carried out fir- (ARTHUR) Mod B artillery and mortar
ing trials of two 155 mm SFMs to
is pushed ahead
locating radar systems from Ericsson
meet the Indirect Fire Anti-Armour Microwave Systems of Gothenburg,
Munition part of IFPA from a Sweden, on 22 December.
155 mm/39-cal AS90 self-propelled The order also includes a classroom
artillery system. trainer and logistic support.Deliveries
These two 155 mm SFMs were the will start at the end of 2006.
CHRISTOPHER F FOSS JDW Land Forces Editor German Rheinmetall/Diehl SMArt The Czech Army ARTHUR systems will
London and Bofors Defence/Giat Industries be installed on indigenously-built Tatra
Bonus. The DPA is expected to issue
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4 x 4 all-terrain vehicles (one system per
he three-year Assessment an Invitation to Tender for the quali- truck).
Phase (AP) of the British fication and supply of these in the Integration within the Czech Army’s
Army’s Indirect Fire Pre- near future, which are required to ASPRO artillery fire support network is
cision Attack (IFPA) meet insensitive munition require- to be conducted by the Czech-based
programme for the Royal ments. One of these will be adopted company Omnipol.
Artillery is due to be completed by the UK. The ARTHUR Mod B includes a C-band
early this year under the leader- Currently the 155 mm AS90 is fit- Doppler radar with phased array
ship of BAE Systems. ted with a 155 mm/39-cal barrel, antenna, data processing unit, two oper-
The IFPA is being run by the UK which was to have been replaced by ator workstations, communication
Defence Procurement Agency’s With new munitions AS90 will be able to the new 155 mm/52-cal Extended equipment and inertial navigation unit.
(DPA’s) Future Artillery Weapons engage armoured targets with accuracy Range Ordnance used in conjunction Its main mission is to protect friendly
Systems Integrated Project Team. Crown Copyright; 0577631 with a South African modular charge forces by locating enemy artillery and
The IFPA will allow the Royal system. The programme has been mortar positions as soon as they open
Artillery to engage targets at longer Component Commander in the next halted and, in the short term at least, fire.
range and with greater accuracy than few years and significantly increase the existing 155 mm/39-cal barrel The truck-based Mod B variant of
current systems. This is expected to accuracy. will be retained. ARTHUR has been in production since
lead to a significant fall in the number “Further increases are anticipated The UK is studying low-cost loi- early 2004. The initial four units,
of munitions required to neutralise a in the next decade to reach out to 150 tering munitions and the USA has mounted on Stewart & Stevenson-
given target, which in turn will have a km. [While ] good progress is being briefed the DPA on its Non Line of supplied M1083 five-tonne Family of
significant impact on logistics. made in the studies and the choice of Sight Launch System, which is cur- Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV)
It was originally expected that the new weapons capabilities, some of rently in the system design and trucks, are to be delivered starting this
four key munitions to form part of which are subject to competition … development phase with NetFires year to an undisclosed customer. They
IFPA would include: a sensor- the assessment process has resulted LLC.The initial in-service date of feature a new shelter design including
fuzed munition delivered by a in certain technologies falling out of IFPA is scheduled around 2010 with one fixed and one portable operator
155 mm artillery shell or rocket sys- contention or, as in the case of the additional capabilities being fielded workstation, as well as a closed-loop air
tem; fibre optic missiles, potentially fibre-optic missile, being withdrawn as the new systems and/or technol- cooling system. The radar antenna is
launched from the current in-service by industry.” ogy becomes available. mounted on a levelling turntable, elimi-
Multiple Launch Rocket System In the near future, the UK is nating the need for four hydraulically
(MLRS) or the future Lightweight expected to place an order for Guided This article was first available online powered support legs on the truck.
Mobile Artillery Weapons System MLRS (GMLRS), which currently on 7 January 2005 Four Norwegian ARTHURs were tem-
(Rocket Platform); terminally guided has a maximum range of over 70 km. For more, go online porarily made available to the UK in
sub-munitions delivered by MLRS; GMLRS has been developed by jdw.janes.com 2002-2003 and used in Afghanistan.
and a radio-frequency munition deliv- France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Four Norwegian and four Swedish
ered by a 155 mm projectile or MLRS. the USA. Low rate initial production ‘BAE Systems team wins IFPA’ systems went to Iraq under a similar
According to the DPA: “Studies for the US started in Financial Year (JDW 17 July 2002) arrangement and located around 1,500
‘BAE seeks industry input for UK artillery
continue into a range of improved 2004. Iraqi targets.
project’ (JDW 4 December 2002)
capabilities. GMLRS contains 404 Dual Pur- ‘US Army hastens development of
Joris Janssen Lok
“The intention is to more than dou- pose Improved Conventional missiles for FCS’ (JDW 24 November JDW Correspondent, The Hague
ble the indirect fire reach of the Land Munitions with a self-destruct fuze. 2004)
Russia lays down new landing ship provide for an embarked military force of 300 troops, with
a deck area amidships allowing for the transportation of
ISO-standard containers.
The lead ship of a new class of amphibious landing planned class of five vessels to be built at a total cost of Construction of the first-of-class, formally laid down on
vessel for the Russian Federation Navy has been laid Rb5 billion ($1.8 billion). 23 December 2004, is expected to be completed by the
down at the Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad. Provisional details of Project 11711 released in a 2003 end of 2008. The Project 11711 programme marks the
Designed by the Nevskoye Planning and Design Bureau, Russian arms catalogue indicate that the design will be resumption of amphibious ship construction for the
the Project 11711 design is expected to displace around able to transport up to 13 main battle tanks or 60 Russian Federation Navy after a 15-year hiatus.
6,000 tons. The as-yet unnamed lead ship is the first of a armoured personnel carriers. Accommodation aboard will Richard Scott, JDW Naval Editor, London
TLFeBOOK
Finland orders more armoured vehicles

CHRISTOPHER F FOSS JDW Land Forces Editor Polish Army AMV fitted with remote-controlled 12.7 mm NSV machine gun
London Hitfist turret armed with and the other with a two-person turret armed with
30 mm MK44 cannon a stabilised ATK Gun Systems Company 30 mm
The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) have showing high elevation MK44 cannon and 7.62 mm co-axial machine
awarded Patria Vehicles a contract worth Patria Vehicles; 0578966
gun. It is expected that in the future the FDF will
EUR96 million ($72.7 million) for the supply order the AMV fitted with a two-person turret
of 62 8 x 8 Armoured Modular Vehicles armed with a medium-calibre cannon.
(AMVs) in the armoured personnel carrier The first export customer for the AMV so far is
(APC) configuration. Poland, which has ordered 690 vehicles, most of
In 2003, Patria Vehicles signed a Memoran- which will be built under licence in Poland. The
dum of Intent with the FDF for the supply of an initial batch of Polish AMVs came from the
initial batch of 24 AMVs plus an option for up to Finnish production line and was handed over in
100 more vehicles. mid-2004. Of the Polish order, 32 will be in the
The first batch of 24 units (4 + 20) will be fitted 6 x 6 reconnaissance configuration with the
with the twin 120 mm Armoured Mortar System remainder in the current production 8 x 8 model.
(AMOS), which has been developed to meet the Protector Remote Weapon Station (RWS) armed These include 313 fitted with an Italian Oto
requirements of Finland and Sweden. First deliv- with a 12.7 mm M2 series heavy machine gun. Melera-designed Hitfist turret armed with a
eries of AMVs fitted with AMOS are due in 2006. These AMVs will not be amphibious. 30 mm MK44 cannon and co-axial machine gun.
Patria Vehicles will supply the AMV chassis to The AMV was developed in association with
For more, go online
Patria Weapon Systems for the installation of the the FDF to meet their requirements for a vehicle
twin 120 mm AMOS turret. with greater payload, protection and mobility www.janes.com
The latest batch of 62 AMVs will be delivered than the existing XA-202/XA-203 series of 6 x 6 ‘Poland to get first AMV in June’ (JDW 25 February 2004)
to the FDF between 2006 and 2007 and be fitted vehicles. The FDF have taken delivery of two Patria Vehicles Armoured Modular Vehicle
with the latest one-person Norwegian Kongsberg pre-production AMVs already: one fitted with a (Jane’s Armour and Artillery)
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ASIA PACIFIC
NORINCO extends
The projectiles are fitted with an The ordnance retains its slotted
MS15 fuze, with the high-explosive muzzle brake with towing eye
anti-tank bomblets having the capa- below.
bility to penetrate up to 80 mm of The ordnance of the NORINCO
artillery range
conventional steel armour under 122 mm D-30 is also used in at least
ideal static conditions. These new two fully tracked self-propelled
122 mm projectiles are being howitzers (SPHs): the Type 89 and
offered for export. the older 122 mm Type 84. Neither
NORINCO is also marketing an of these two SPH variants are
CHRISTOPHER F FOSS JDW Land Forces Editor upgrade package called the D-30-3 known to have been exported and
London that allows older towed artillery sys- have not been recently marketed by
tems to be enhanced to the same NORINCO.
C
hina’s North Industries D-30. The standard 122 mm HB ballistic standard as the D-30. The 122 mm Type 89 is similar in
Corporation (NOR- cargo projectiles have a maximum The first application of the some respects to the Russian
INCO) is offering an range of 18 km while the 122 mm D-30-3 upgrade is the NORINCO 122 mm 2S1 and has a turret-
improved version of base bleed cargo projectile has a Type 86 100 mm anti-tank gun, in mounted 122 mm weapon while the
its 122 mm D-30 towed maximum range of 22 km. which the existing ordnance and Type 84 has the ordnance in a mount
howitzer called Type D-30-2. Both rounds carry 33 bomblets recoil system is replaced by the with limited traverse and no over-
The company has for some years that are designed to attack the complete ordnance and recoil head protection.
been marketing for export a locally vulnerable upper surfaces of system of the NORINCO D-30 with As well as marketing 122 mm
manufactured version of the widely armoured vehicles and are also highly the elevating mechanism being D-30 series towed artillery systems
deployed 122 mm D-30 towed how- effective against troops in the open. modified. NORINCO is pushing 155 mm
itzer, which entered service with the towed and self-propelled artillery
Russian Army as far back as the weapon PLZ45 as stand-alone
1960s. The NORINCO 122 mm systems or as part of a complete
D-30 is believed to have been pur- artillery package, which includes
chased by a number of countries target acquisition, fire-control,
including Pakistan and Tanzania. ammunition and supporting vehicles.
The D-30-2 is slightly heavier than
For more, go online
the D-30.
In addition to firing the standard www.janes.com
family of 122 mm separate-loading NORINCO 122 mm howitzer D-30
ammunition out to a maximum (Jane’s Armour and Artillery)
range of 15.3 km, the Chinese ver- ‘China extends artillery reach’
sion of the D-30 can also fire (JDW 16 June 2004)
enhanced locally developed
122 mm ammunition.
The 122 mm high explosive Taiwan set to
hollow base bleed (HE-HB)
ammunition has a maximum range receive Hellfires
of 18 km while the high-explosive
base bleed (HE-BB ammunition) The Republic of China (Taiwan) will
has a maximum range of 22 km. obtain more than 400 AGM-114M blast
NORINCO has also developed fragmentation Hellfire air-to-surface
two 122 mm cargo projectiles that The 122 m D-30, seen here in firing position, first entered service in the 1960s missile rounds worth some $50 million
can be fired from all versions of the Jane’s; 0105747 under a letter of agreement concluded
with the US Army. It is the largest sale
Indonesia finalises additional LPD capability of the AGM-114M to date.

The missile sale to Taiwan is part of a
Indonesia last month finalised an South Korea’s Daewoo International, shortfall and these talks led to the new wider contract involving more than 600
agreement to acquire four landing with two vessels to be built by Dae Sun contract. AGM-114M blast fragmentation and
platform dock (LPD) vessels from and two manufactured locally by PT The navy’s requirement for additional AGM-114K high-explosive anti-tank
South Korea worth some $150 PAL Indonesia. amphibious transport capabilities was rounds. Taipei will account for about
million. Deliveries are due between Three of the new LPDs will be of the highlighted by the massive relief effort 70 per cent of the total, with Israel ear-
mid-2007 and mid-2008. same type as provided earlier and one in Aceh province following devastating marked to take a further 5 to 10 per cent
The deal is a follow-up to Jakarta’s will be configured as a command ship sea surges generated by the offshore under a US government Foreign Military
earlier acquisition of a 122m Tanjung variant. earthquake on 26 December 2004. Sales deal; the remainder will go to the
DalPelle-class LPD displacing around The Indonesian Navy’s inventory of Robert Karniol US Army.
7,300 tons and delivered in mid-2003. major amphibious vessels currently JDW Asia-Pacific Editor, Bangkok “Taiwan’s decision to purchase Hellfire
This was produced by South Korea’s includes 14 landing ships, but the This article was first available online ensures its military interoperability with
Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering armed forces have clearly seen these as on 7 January 2005 the US Army, Marine Corps and Special
and was initially described as a hospital insufficient to cover the extensive arch- Operations Forces deployed worldwide,”
ship, although it later became apparent ipelago. For more, go online the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, said
that the vessel would function as an Analysts were aware of discussions jdw.janes.com in a statement.
amphibious transport. centred on the acquisition of four to six ‘Hospital ship launched for Robert Karniol
The new contract was brokered by additional LPDs to relieve the perceived Indonesia’ (JDW 28 May 2003) JDW Asia-Pacific Editor, Bangkok
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ASIA PACIFIC
China defends stance on Taiwan
ROBERT KARNIOL JDW Asia Pacific Editor intentions of Taiwanese President in this region by buttressing military
Bangkok Chen Shui-bian, but may also link to alliances and accelerating deploy-
the military balance starting to shift ment of missile defence systems.
C
hina’s Defence White of Taiwan: “The state of the relations in China’s favour. “Japan is stepping up its constitu-
Paper, released by its between the two sides of the Taiwan China contends that Washington tional overhaul, adjusting its
State Council on 27 Straits is grim. It is the sacred shares the blame. “The US has on military and security policies and
December, concentrates responsibility of the Chinese armed many occasions reaffirmed adher- developing the missile defence sys-
on its political and mili- forces to stop the ‘Taiwan indepen- ence to the one China policy, tem for future deployment. It has
tary position, shifting from the dence’ forces from splitting the observance of the three joint com- also markedly increased military
more measured tone of its previ- country,” the document adds. muniqués and opposition to activities abroad,” the document
ous policy document and making “We will never allow anyone to Taiwanese independence,” the states.
little effort to ease concerns of split Taiwan from China by what- White Paper states. “The foundation for the Six-Party
other countries. ever means. Should the Taiwanese “However, it continues to Talks is not solid enough as uncer-
‘China’s National Defence in authorities go so far as to make a increase, quantitatively and qualita- tain factors linger in the settlement
2004’ is the fifth in a series of bien- reckless attempt that constitutes a tively, its arms sales to Taiwan, of the nuclear issue on the Korean
nial White Papers aimed at major incident of 'Taiwan indepen- sending a wrong signal to the Taiwan Peninsula. The threat posed by ter-
countering international criticism of dence', the Chinese people and authorities. The US action does not rorism, separatism and extremism is
Beijing's lack of transparency in armed forces will resolutely and serve a stable situation across the still grave. Such transnational
areas relating to security. It typically thoroughly crush it at any cost.” Taiwan Straits.” crimes as smuggling, piracy, drug-
lacks the detail on force develop- These sentiments are hardly new, The policy paper highlights sev- trafficking and money-laundering
ment that could reassure other but the viewpoint is increasingly eral other areas of Chinese are rampant.”
countries about China’s intentions. strident. This appears to reflect Bei- apprehension. “The US is realigning This article was first available online
The paper states, instead, its view jing’s heightened concern over the and reinforcing its military presence on 3 January 2005
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MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Israeli firms take major
suffer a major loss.
The real thrust behind the recent
series of acquisitions was TadCom’s
reserve of $240 million in cash. It
step to consolidation
started with an attempt by TadCom to
take over Elbit. TadCom’s CEO,
Hezi Hermoni, criticised the man-
agement of Elbit in a way that drove
Federmann Enterprises to borrow
ALON BEN-DAVID JDW Correspondent $200 million in order to block Tad-
Tel Aviv Com from acquiring Elbit. In return,
Federmann attempted to buy Tad-
I
srael’s defence industry took a Com, although Koor eventually beat
major step towards consolida- them to the post.
tion late last year with the While Koor declared its intention
merger of the country’s three to become a player in the defence
leading private industries: market, insiders say it appears that
Elbit Systems, Tadiran Communi- it was eyeing TadCom’s cash reserve
cations (TadCom) and Elisra and searching for a way to divest
Electronics Industries. itself of Elisra. Eventually, Koor
Elbit emerges as Israel’s largest will end up without Elisra and
defence business, with $1.5 billion in TadCom, and with minor holdings in
annual sales, ahead of its main com- Elbit.
petitor, the state-owned Israel Hermoni, who has gained credit
Aircraft Industries (IAI). Elbit (From left to right): Joseph Ackerman, Elbit’s president and CEO; Mickey for guiding TadCom to success in the
announced its intention to continue Federmann, Elbit’s major shareholder; Jonathan Kolber, Koor’s CEO; past five years, has managed to
its expansion and acquire parts of Danny Biran, president of Koor and chairman of TadCom and Elisra; secure his position with a 36-month
Israel Military Industries (IMI) and and Hezi Hermoni, TadCom’s CEO Elbit; 0590509 contract. “I have a long-term per-
IAI, when both companies take the sonal commitment to TadCom, and
inevitable road toward privatisation. buy 5.3 per cent of Elbit. major companies, stronger and better this is a strategic move for the com-
Four days before the end of 2004, The second and critical stage is capable to compete in the global pany,” he said at a press conference.
the three players in the long saga of when TadCom offers to acquire market”. Elbit Systems’Audit Com- “The [new] deal will grant TadCom
acquisitions and takeovers – Elbit, Koor’s 70 per cent stake in Elisra. mittee and board of directors, and access to the Israel Defence Force’s
Koor Industries and TadCom – That will require approval of Tad- Koor Industries board of directors on Tsayad – Digital Army Project
announced the merger deal that Com’s public shareholders. Only 5 January approved the agreements [DAP], won by Elbit, Elisra and the
reshapes Israel’s defence industry. when TadCom takes over Elisra will relating to the transactions. Rafael Armament Development
Under the contract, signed on 27 Koor sell its remaining 18.2 per cent However, there is an immediate Authority.” The DAP has an esti-
December, Elbit will, in two stages, stake in TadCom to Elbit, and will loser in this deal: IAI, which only two mated potential value of $1 billion.
acquire Koor’s 32 per cent holdings obtain an additional 4.5 per cent of years ago acquired 30 per cent of Federmann intends to increase its
in TadCom for $146 million. In Elbit. Should the merger with Elisra Elisra, valued then at $330 holding in TadCom. The company is
return, Federmann Enterprises, not materialise, Elbit and Koor will million. Elisra, which has been also preparing a list of future acquisi-
Elbit’s primary shareholder, will sell remain equal partners in TadCom. floundering over the past two years, tions: “When the privatisation of IMI
Koor 9.8 per cent of Elbit’s shares for “It is an additional stage in the is now valued at an estimated becomes actual, our group will be the
$99 million, while TadCom will pur- consolidation,” said Elbit president $100 million-$150 million. Israel’s natural candidate to absorb it, except
chase Koor’s 70 per cent stake in and chief executive officer (CEO) Antitrust Authority has already for the ammunition plant. If it is pri-
Elisra for a price yet to be deter- Joseph Ackerman. “[It is] a merger of announced that IAI will be forced to vatised during 2005, as the [Israeli]
mined. three great companies that will make sell its stake in Elisra, once TadCom Ministry of Defence says, then we
Elbit had secretly obtained 4.4 per us resemble other leading US and and Elbit take over the company, as will be the leading [purchaser].”
cent of TadCom shares in recent European [defence] companies. there is a risk of a crossover of inter-
For more, go online
weeks. In the first stage of the deal, Everybody wins in this deal and this est between directors from the two
the company will purchase an addi- is not our last move.” Israel’s Minis- competing companies. jdw.janes.com
tional 13.8 per cent of Koor’s stake in ter of Defence, Shaul Mofaz, praised An appraiser and an independent ‘Koor acquires TadCom – what next?’
TadCom, bringing Elbit and Koor’s the deal as “a first step towards mate- committee are yet to determine the (JDW 22 September 2004)
holdings in TadCom to an equal 18.2 rialising our vision of uniting Israel’s value of Elisra for the future merger, ‘Elbit’s largest owner attempts to block
per cent. At the same time, Koor will defence industry into two to three but it is already clear that IAI will Tadiran’ (JDW 4 August)
New national army for Burundi “Since the two laws were signed on 31
December, the Burundi Armed Forces are
them, clothe them and pay their salaries.”
The term ‘rebel’ will now only apply to
President Domitien Ndayizeye of The new 30,000-strong army and no more. the National Liberation Forces, which has
Burundi has signed two laws establish- 20,000-strong police force will be “The [main former rebel] Forces for the refused to sign up to the November 2003
ing a new army and police force made up of Hutus and Tutsis on a Defence of Democracy (FDD) doesn’t peace accords and is still fighting in
involving former rebel fighters, the 50-50 basis. exist either,” presidential spokesman Pan- Bujumbura Rural.
presidential office announced on Currently, Hutus comprise 85 per cent crace Cimpaye said. Peace has been restored in the 16 other
3 January. of the population but between only 35 and “Theoretically, all armed fighters in this provinces in the country.
The Burundi Armed Forces will now be 40 per cent of the armed forces, according country are henceforth the responsibility Robin Hughes JDW Middle East Editor
known as the National Defence Force. to military sources. of the government, which should feed London
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Egypt considers
German Navy
submarine buys Egypt is in discussions with Germany regarding the acquisition of two German Navy
Type 206A SSKs Jane’s; 0544197
ROBIN HUGHES JDW Middle East Editor build SSKs, based on the Moray submarines from Germany,” the
London design from RDM Submarines in Commander-in-Chief of the Israel
the Netherlands, fell through in Navy, Vice Admiral David Ben-
E
gypt is conducting many. “There is interest on the 2001 when the decision was linked Ba’ashat, announced late last year.
preliminary negotiations Egyptian side,” a German MoD to a US commitment in support of He said he expected “a window of
with Germany for the official told JDW. However, he Taiwan’s submarine requirement. opportunity to open next year, due
acquisition of an initial noted that only two boats are cur- While the Type 206A platform is to the changing political atmos-
two German Navy Type rently available – one has already relatively old, the boats have bene- phere towards Israel in Europe and
206A-class diesel-electric sub- been decommissioned while a sec- fited from an extensive combat Germany that will allow the sale of
marines (SSKs). ond is in the decommissioning system modernisation carried out in the submarines”.
The German Navy is preparing to process. This rules out the possibil- the late 1980s and early 1990s. A defence source added that
take delivery of the first of its four ity that the boats could be sold to The potential deal reflects a Israel is seeking to acquire the addi-
new Type U212A SSKs by the end Egypt in a ‘hot’ or operating condi- growing level of co-operation tional Dolphins under financial
of this year, after which it will grad- tion. The official added that the between the German MoD and terms similar to those of the con-
ually phase out its Type 206A fleet remaining nine boats will remain Egypt in recent years. The Egyptian tract for the original three boats in
with the opportunity for potential operational until the Type U212s Navy acquired five ex-German 1991/1994.
sale on the international market. enter operational service with the Navy Tiger-class (Type 148) mis- The German MoD official said
A German Ministry of Defence German Navy. sile fast attack craft from Germany there was no link between the two
(MoD) official confirmed that the The current Egyptian Navy sub- between July 2002 and March potential sales and that negotiations
prospective deal was broached dur- marine fleet comprises four ageing 2003. with Egypt will not be affected by
ing the recent visit of Defence Improved Romeo-class SSKs Neighbouring Israel is also in any prospective Israeli deal. “We
Minister Peter Struck to his Egypt- acquired from China between 1982 negotiations with Germany for the are in preliminary talks with the
ian counterpart, Field Marshal and 1984. acquisition of two additional Israelis [over the additional Dol-
Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, in Egypt has been seeking to Dolphin-class SSKs, reportedly to phins], and the issue of the sale to
early December 2004. upgrade its submarine force in include an air-independent propul- Egypt of the Type 206As is not part
Defence sources said that Egypt recent years. However, a potential sion capability. of that agenda,” the official said.
could eventually purchase up to deal with Northrop Grumman “Israel will sign a contract to This article was first available online
four surplus Type 206As from Ger- (Ingalls Shipyards) for two new- acquire two more Dolphin-class on 7 January 2005
Israel Navy deploys Spider detection system

The Israel Navy has begun acceptance into service of Spider across a wide panoramic area. It consists of a charge-
Controp Precision Technologies’ Spider stabilised systems are coupled device daylight camera, a third-generation
automatic intruder detection and recognition system. being deployed forward-looking infra-red device and a laser range-finder.
The Spider systems are being deployed on navy along Israel’s Through the system’s control and display unit, the opera-
vessels along Israel’s northern maritime border to northern tor can switch to observation mode, using a x22.5 zoom,
counter potential terrorist infiltrations from Lebanon. border to to track and recognise targets. The Spider can be installed
The Spider has been in service with Israel Air Force (IAF) counter on either a mobile platform or incorporated into a high
units for several years. Dubbed the ‘Blue Skies’ in service potential mast, providing up to 360° scan coverage.
with the IAF, the system is deployed adjacent to the Mach- terrorist “Considering our successful experience with the Spider
bet combined M163 20mm Vulcan cannon/Stinger infiltrations on the Lebanese border, we intend to obtain more sys-
fire-and-forget missile self-propelled short-range air from Lebanon tems and deploy them along Israel’s border with the Gaza
defence system for detecting aerial intruders. “With minor Controp Precision Strip,” the navy source said. “We are faced with similar
Technologies; 0590519
software changes we have adapted the Spider for our terrorist threats there, which are expected to rise follow-
coastguard missions, using its capabilities to detect even ing Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza this summer.”
the smallest objects,” a navy source told JDW. Alon Ben-David JDW Correspondent, Tel Aviv
“Along our border with Lebanon, we face a continuous
For more, go online
threat from seaborne terrorism, [with terrorists] attempt- is extremely wearying for the observer. The Spider’s auto-
ing to penetrate Israeli waters as swimmers, divers, using matic scan mode enables better detection of infiltrators.”
www.janes.com
jet skis or disguised as fishermen,” said the source. The Spider is a passive, real-time, electro-optical detec- ‘Controp Spider intruder detection system’
“Scanning the ocean through a camera with a human eye tor system designed to automatically detect motion (Jane’s Electro-Optic Systems)
TLFeBOOK
BUSINESS
Slow ramp-up to cuts’
defence community as the growth
areas of defence are also cut under
PBD 753, such as digitisation, intel-
ligence, sensors, missile defence,
impact on US industry
counter-terrorism and homeland
security. Programmes subject to
the budget axe include:
• missile defence down by $800
million-$1 billion a year starting in
DAVID MULHOLLAND JDW Business Editor conform to the new budget reality 2006;
London of low single-digit growth,” Strauss • E-10A Multi-Sensor Command
wrote. and Control aircraft down $300
T
he cost of US operations industry will be little affected over A number of major Lockheed million a year in 2006 and 2007;
in Iraq and Afghanistan the next few years as the pain of Martin programmes are affected, • Co-operative Threat Reduction
and the rising US budget those cuts will not bite until Presi- including the F/A-22, C-130J and programme that aims to safeguard
deficit are beginning to dent Bush has left office. Joint Common Missile. PBD 753 Russian bomb-grade uranium and
cut into the Pentagon’s “We believe the defence compa- envisages cutting F/A-22 produc- plutonium down $37 million in
procurement and development nies are unlikely to see much of a tion after 2008 and halting C-130J 2006;
accounts, which are the mainstay revenue impact from the proposed procurement for the US Air Force • Homeland Defense Critical Infra-
of the defence industry. cuts, given the lag between appro- and completing procurement for structure Program and Combating
JDW obtained a copy of Program priations and outlays, prior to the the US Marine Corps in 2006. Terrorism both down by $5 million
Budget Decision (PBD) 753 that end of the decade,” said a research “Between the F/A-22 and a year starting 2006.
lays out the proposed US defence note by UBS’David Strauss. C-130J programmes, Lockheed Budget analysts note that the cost
budget from Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 “In total, procurement is cut by looks to lose out on roughly $5 bil- of US operations in Southeast Asia,
to FY2011, which includes a num- nearly $32 billion from FY2006- lion in funding in each FY 2009 and around $4 billion a month for Iraq
ber of programme cuts. 11, [Research, Development, Test 2010,” Strauss noted. “Currently, and $1 billion a month for
The US Department of Defense & Evaluation] RDT&E by we estimate that the C-130J and Afghanistan is beginning to put
(DoD) may axe a net $30 billion $6 billion and [Operations & Main- F/A-22 account for roughly $4 bil- pressure on the US budget. Military
from procurement, research and tenance] O&M by $17 billion, lion in revenues a year for operations are mostly paid through
operations spending between 2006 partially offset by an additional $25 Lockheed (11 per cent of revenues). supplemental funding in the US,
and 2011, with such programmes as billion for the Army Modularity However, under the current pro- sparing procurement and research
the F/A-22 Raptor, C-130J Hercules Program,” Strauss wrote. “Procure- posal, Lockheed is unlikely to see budgets from the cost of operations.
seeing production halts and missile ment cuts ramp, with only minor much of a decline in revenues However, the US budget has
defence seeing deep reductions. The cuts in the FY2006-07 followed by related to these programmes before gone deeply into deficit as the Bush
aircraft carrier fleet would also be big cuts in FY2009-10. the end of the decade.” administration has repeatedly cut
reduced by one to 11. “The defence stocks are likely to A number of areas that have been taxes while taking the country into
For the most part, the defence remain under pressure as valuations held up by the Pentagon and the two conflicts.
JDW 20 Index of defence stocks

COMPANY PREVIOUS CURRENT % Since it last ran in the 22 December edition, the JDW 20 stock index has fallen 36 points to 1,597. During the previous two
PRICE PRICE +/- weeks the index came in at 1,648 points, then down to 1,618 points, which is reflected in the graph. The biggest mover
BAE Systems 234.75p 230.50p -1.81 was Sagem, with a 78.65 per cent fall, reflecting a one-to-five stock split. Sagem took the action to prepare for its state-
Boeing $52.08 $50.48 -3.07 supported takeover of French-government-owned turbine maker Snecma. News of planned defence cuts by the Pentagon
Cobham 1247.00p 1265.00p +1.44 hammered US defence companies with the hardest hit, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, seeing their stock fall
Dassault Aviation EUR438.00 EUR458.90 +4.77 8.02 per cent and 7.95 per cent respectively for the three-week period. Even Boeing, which saw strong end-of-year
EADS EUR20.93 EUR21.60 +3.20 performance and robust civil sales, fell 3.07 per cent for the period. General Dynamics also declined but the company
Elbit Systems NIS106.70 NIS107.80 +1.03 does have some upside according to JP Morgan, which upgraded General Dynamics from 'neutral' to 'overweight'.
Finmeccanica EUR0.670 EUR0.700 +4.48
Jane’s; 0590533
General Dynamics $105.36 $99.45 -5.61

2000 2000
Lockheed Martin $59.26 $54.51 -8.02
Meggitt 264.50P 255.75P -3.31
Northrop Grumman $57.75 $53.16 -7.95
Raytheon $39.00 $36.52 -6.36
Rheinmetall Ind EUR37.84 EUR38.50 +1.74
Rolls-Royce 252.00p 251.00p -0.40
Saab SKr114.50 SKr117.00 +2.18 1500 1500
Sagem EUR72.80 EUR15.54 -78.65
Singapore Tech Engg S$2.22 S$2.40 +8.11
Smiths Group 787.00p 827.50p +5.15
Thales EUR33.42 EUR35.72 +6.88
VT Group 296.50p 299.25p +0.93
JDW INDEX BASE
*Different sources of financial information reported different Thursday 1000 JDW INDEX BASE
closing prices for US companies. Where these discrepancies arose, the DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN 1000
majority price is used. Prices shown as of 6 January 2005
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BUSINESS
US pressure threatens
Israel-China trade Chinese Harpy attack drone components have been
ALON BEN-DAVID JDW Correspondent source. The dispute between the two countries, confiscated by Israel IAI; 0036141
Tel Aviv which erupted in recent months, is over US suspi-

cion that Israel intends to upgrade the Chinese cent,” Yaron told members of the Knesset’s
T
he US Department of Defense (DoD) Harpies and not just provide spare parts. Addi- Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee on
has forced Israel to confiscate parts tionally, the Pentagon claims that Israel failed to 28 December.
of China’s Harpy attack drones sent report the planned delivery of Harpy kits to China US officials see the matter differently. Israeli
to the original manufacturer Israel according to the agreements between Israel and sources said that Undersecretary of Defense
Aircraft Industries (IAI) for main- the US. Israel claims that the Pentagon was aware Douglas Feith was “furious” about the sale of
tenance. The Harpy is a low-speed loitering of the sale of several dozen Harpies to China in Harpies, and argued that the Pentagon was not
anti-radar weapon. 2000, as well as the supply of spares in 2002. aware of the initial sale or the upgrades. Feith had
This follows Israel cancelling the sale of the In 2004 China required additional spare parts, reportedly refused to meet Yaron since March
Phalcon airborne early-warning aircraft to China but as the US DoD raised concerns about the 2004. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and
in July 2001, again in response to US opposition. delivery, Israel decided to halt the supply. Since Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz both expressed
Israeli officials fear that the confiscation could then, Pentagon officials accused Yaron of mis- confidence in and support of Yaron.
destroy China’s trust in Israeli companies as sup- leading them and demanded that Israel cease any Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan criti-
pliers: a potentially serious blow to Israel’s delivery of Harpy systems to China. cised US conduct in the matter, defining it as
export-dependent defence industry. Israeli-US relations regarding arms sales to “groundless and unreasonable”. During a visit to
“There is a grave crisis between US and Israeli China appear unclear since Israel was forced to Israel, the Chinese official said: “We have co-
defence establishments,” an Israeli defence cancel a $1.2 billion contract for the sale of IAI’s operation with Israel in many fields, none of
source told JDW. “We are trying to solve it, but Phalcon airborne early-warning systems in July which violates the interests of any third party.”
there is a risk it would fatally harm our relations 2001. The US demanded that Israel stop the sale, His visit, which was considered by Israeli diplo-
with China. Should the US pressure persist, forc- although the Phalcon consists only of Israeli and mats to mark the end of the Phalcon crisis, was
ing us to renege on our commitments to China, it not US technology and therefore does not require overshadowed by the Harpy issue.
would inflict a mortal blow to Israeli-Chinese US approval. Since the aborted Phalcon deal, US IAI’s Harpy is a 135 kg attack drone designed
relations,” the source said. “Naturally, we would defence officials have repeatedly told their Israeli to autonomously detect and attack enemy radars.
have to compensate the Chinese, like we did with counterparts that they object to any delivery of Reportedly, it has a range of 500 km and an
the Phalcon.” “offensive weapons that could threaten US endurance of seven hours. Carrying a 32 kg war-
The crisis will also have repercussions on the forces in East Asia”. head, it is designed to detonate above the target
tenure of the chief of the Israeli Ministry of Israeli defence sources claim that although the using a proximity fuse.
Defence (MoD), Director General Amos Yaron, Harpy, like the Phalcon, contains no US technol- Harpy’s design is believed to be derived from
who had planned to retire in the coming months. ogy, the DoD was notified of the contract with IAI’s co-operation with Germany’s Dornier in
“Under the current crisis, Yaron will have to stay China at the time and raised no objections. the 1970s and bears a resemblance to Dornier’s
longer as his retirement might be interpreted by “Israel is committed not to harm any American DAR multirole unmanned aerial vehicle.
the US as an admission of blame,” said the interest and we meet this commitment 100 per This article was first available online on 7 January 2005
Russian exports beat $5b for second year

Russia’s preliminary figures for arms five years they doubled and in 2003 expand our influence on world arms mar- $135 million in spare parts and mainte-
export sales last year reached reached the record mark in post-Soviet kets. We open [offices] in the countries nance (aircraft sales go through
$5.6 billion to $5.7 billion, beating times of $5.57 billion.” that show direct interest in procurement of Rosoboronexport); Moscow-based
$5.5 billion in 2003, largely on the The continuing success of Russia’s Russian weapons … . Some of our Salyute Engine Plant with $38 million; and
continuing strength of Chinese and arms exports indicate that the country’s regional representatives work with two or NPO Mashinostroyeniye with $32 million.
Indian contracts, easing fears that 2003 defence industry is likely to survive under three countries, rather than with only one.” Naval sales lead with about 50 per cent
was an anomaly. a post-Soviet model that relies on exports Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of the Russian of the total, followed by aviation with 32
Signalling future exports, the Russian rather than domestic orders to keep the Federal Service for Military-Technical Co- per cent and land forces equipment with
arms trading agency, Rosoboronexport, industry viable. operation with Foreign Countries, pointed about 10 per cent, Dmitriyev said.
signed contracts worth more than Chemezov said that there are plans to out that despite the high potential for Nikolai Novichkov JDW Correspon-
$5.5 billion last year, bringing its backlog penetrate new markets to maintain or arms exports, Russia is not fully exploit- dent, Moscow and David Mulholland
of signed and validated contracts to be expand sales. “China and India remain ing its niche in the global arms market. JDW Business Editor, London
completed by 2007 to $12 billion. priority importers of Russian defence As a near trading monopoly, For more, go online
Similarly, deliveries have beaten the products, and we will go on improving our Rosoboronexport accounted for most of jdw.janes.com
$5 billion mark two years in a row. strategic partnership with the two,” he defence export sales with more than
‘Russia resumes military-technical
“In the past few years Russian arms and said. $5 billion in new contracts signed. The
co-operation with Libya’
military hardware exports have been Referring to plans to open offices in Bel- other licensed defence exporter sales
(JDW 18 October 2004)
steadily growing, said Sergei Chemezov, gium, Italy, Myanmar and Venezuela, include: Tula-based Instrument Design ‘Russia to build helicopter plant in
Rosoboronexport’s director general. “In Chemezov said: “This will help us to Bureau with $242 million; Sukhoi with Mexico’ (JDW 24 June 2004)
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Turkey breaks taboo against

lead to resistance from the TAF.
There have been repeated allega-
tions in the past of corruption
within the military, but only officers
military corruption up to the rank of colonel have usu-

ally been brought to trial. After the
trial of Erdil, other corruption
LALE SARIIBRAHIMOGLU JDW Correspondent charges levelled against former
Ankara generals indicate a persistent mili-
tary will to fight the graft.
Contracting practices in Turkey Turkish daily newspapers are
appear to be becoming more Turkish Chief of Staff meanwhile reporting that another
transparent as the taboo against Gen Hilmi Ozkok is a military prosecutor has authorised
charging military officers for major force in the fight proceedings against 39 people,
corruption has been broken, against corruption in the including generals, allegedly
paving the way for a reduction of armed forces involved in bribe-taking and other
military power in politics. PA; 0531572 irregularities with military building
In a step toward meeting EU contracts at the Special Forces
acceptance criteria, the Turkish Command at the Ogulbey head-
Armed Forces (TAF) have allowed quarters near Ankara. The trial
an ex-navy commander to be tried started on 6 January.
on corruption charges: the first such Regardless of the veracity of the
trial in decades. reports, they indicate a new attitude
A military court opened the first regarding corruption.
hearing of the allegations of corrup- stop widespread corruption in par- for his personal expenses. The hearing of ex-admiral Erdil
tion against retired admiral Ilhami ticular, have had an effect on the Erdil has rejected the allegations has encouraged the Turkish media
Erdil, who served as the comman- armed forces’ attitude, prompting it and said during his court hearing and politicians to revive the issue of
der of the Turkish Navy Forces to break taboos allowing an ex-gen- that a wealthy uncle helped him buy an alleged corruption accusation
Command (TNFC) from 1999 to eral to be tried at a military court the apartments. against former Turkish Air Force
2001, on 21 December. At the hear- that is open to the press. The charges against a former commander Tahsin Sahinkaya over
ing Erdil and his wife and daughter, senior military officer appears to be an aircraft purchase in the 1980s.
who are co-defendants, rejected the part of a new seriousness regarding Kemal Kilicdaroglu, deputy head of
charges. Rising demands corruption both by the TAF itself the Republican People’s Party in
Turkish Chief of General Staff “A public hearing of an ex-com- and the government. opposition, claimed that a weak
General Hilmi Ozkok, believed by mander is a strong indication that As part of efforts to reduce the point in Turkey’s fight against
many to be the driving force in the taboos are broken within the mili- armed forces’ political power, corruption related to the alleged
fight against corruption in the military. One could not ignore, on the Turkey’s parliament passed a bill irregularities in the purchase of
tary, is also a supporter of Turkey’s other hand, increased demands on 30 July last year curbing the F-16 aircraft from Lockheed
bid to join the EU. coming from within the military powers of the National Security Martin in 1986.
The corruption trial of the ex- that corruption allegations should Council (NSC): the principal The company did not respond
admiral comes days after the EU become public,” a senior Turkish avenue through which the military to a request for comment by the
agreed to open accession talks with official told JDW. exerts its influence over public time JDW went to press.
Turkey on 17 December. Erdil could face up to 18 years affairs. It turned the NSC into an Speaking on 8 November 2004
The TAF has displayed a determi- imprisonment if convicted. His advisory body by removing its during a parliamentary commission
nation to fight corruption in recent wife and daughter also face three executive powers. Another bill debate on the military defence
years: a goal that runs counter to tra- years imprisonment if convicted. passed by parliament in May 2004 budget, Kilicdaroglu stated that
ditional sensitivity to public charges The accusations against Erdil envisaged the military budget com- although parliament opened an
of corruption. The TAF has long first surfaced in September 2003 ing under the direct scrutiny of the investigation into the controversy
worried that negative publicity when he was unable to explain how civil court of auditors. those responsible were not found.
would erode the public’s trust in, he purchased two luxury apart- It is not clear whether there are A Turkish parliamentary commis-
and respect for, the military, which ments in Istanbul allegedly worth a more reforms in preparation. A sion probe in 1986 closed before the
remains politically powerful. combined $1.25 million, according senior general speaking to JDW investigation was complete.
The armed forces have staged to the military judge’s indictment. stressed that any pressure exerted The wave of anti-corruption
three coups since the 1960s along Erdil allegedly failed to declare on Turkey as part of further reforms efforts has not been confined to the
with a post-modern coup forcing the properties, despite being legally for the subordination of the Turkish military. Two former energy minis-
an Islamic-led coalition govern- required to do so. Accountants Chief of Staff from the current ters are also on trial.
ment to resign in 1997. Sensitivity determined that he could not have prime minister’s office to the Min- This article was first available online
to bad press has led the TAF to bought them on his salary, accord- istry of National Defence might on 7 January 2005
rarely authorise investigations into ing to press reports.
corruption allegations of the high-
est-ranking generals. The latest
Erdil was widely reported as
being accused of exerting pressure Joint venture for XM8 formed
opinion polls show that the TAF is for military contracts to be awarded General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems and Heckler & Koch have formed a
among the highest-respected insti- to a company headed by his joint venture company to produce the next-generation 5.56 mm XM8 carbine. A
tutions in Turkey along with the daughter and a close friend. He spokesman for General Dynamics said the joint venture company does not yet have a
presidential office. However, was also reported to have been name and no decisions on staffing or location have been made.
increased transparency in Turkey in accused of irregularities that Joshua Kucera JDW Staff Reporter, Washington, DC
general, and increased efforts to resulted in the state paying bills
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Into
Africa Africa, with its great potential for instability, is attracting renewed interest
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THE US IN AFRICA
Africa is of growing strategic Securing resources

importance to the US. Andrew Koch US oil imports – 2003
Gulf of Guinea
Persian Gulf
Canada
examines how and why

Mexico
Venezuela
16.39% 15.01%
Others
12.24%
I
n the dusty plains of the Niger country- helping eight or so countries create rapid-reac-
side, the sound of machine gunfire tion units and other means to better control their
revealed the presence of US Marine borders and territory. Just as importantly, it seeks 24.10%
Corps (USMC) personnel, but unlike in to improve information-sharing and operational 16.24%
decades past the marines were not on the planning among the participants, which are 16.02%
ground fighting some proxy war against an likely to include Algeria, Chad, Mali, Maurita- US government; 0590477
enemy power. Rather, they were training nia, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia and Senegal.
local forces as part of a vital, if largely unno- “The strategic interest to the United States Although not as crucial a factor in the greater US
ticed, facet of the ‘war on terrorism’: helping and Europe is that [these countries] have stabil- interest in Africa as fighting terrorism, securing future
allies improve central government control of ity” before they become a haven for terrorists, oil supplies – much of it high quality – is also clearly a
their territories so they are not used as safe Gen Wald told JDW in September. He later noted major interest on the continent.
havens by terrorist groups. that “although it isn’t so prolific that it is out of The US already imports a substantial amount of petro-
Through counter-terrorism training provided hand, there are activities by terrorists in Africa”. leum from Africa and Washington’s dependence on oil
to armed forces such as in Niger, the US is look- He specifically cited the instability of the North and liquified natural gas from the continent is expected to
ing to beef up its relations with governments African region around the Sahara as a problem, rise substantially by the end of the decade, US defence
across a wide swathe of the continent. The areas noting that “it probably would have become a officials say. According to US government data, imports
are considered to offer potential hideouts, fund- haven [for terrorists] if we had not stepped in” of petroleum from the Gulf of Guinea will jump from the
ing, weapons and recruits. with US assistance programmes. Washington current 15 per cent to nearly 25 per cent by 2015: about
More than a decade after 18 US troops died in did so, he explains, because it has learned from as much as the US now gets from OPEC members in the
Somalia during the October 1993 Battle of the experience of Afghanistan that large swathes Persian Gulf. Those imports will not be solely because
Mogadishu, military leaders in Washington are of territory cannot be allowed to remain Washington wants to buy from Africa rather than the Per-
once again becoming increasingly interested in ungoverned. sian Gulf, but rather because a fifth of the world’s oil is
Africa. In the years following the debacle in Other US officials say areas like the Sahel expected to be pumped from the continent by 2010.
Somalia, Washington had largely withdrawn its region have seen small groups of Islamic Also, Washington will not be alone in seeking to buy
military involvement in Africa and the region extremist operatives continuing to move in, ini- Africa’s liquid gold. With its seemingly insatiable appetite
became a backwater for US strategic considera- tially focusing on spreading their ideology and for petroleum to fuel a raging economy, China is also
tions. Now, says US European Command conducting limited recruitment. This infiltration expected to import huge amounts of African oil. Accord-
(EUCOM) Deputy Commanding General is happening elsewhere as well, they say, noting ing to US government statistics, China already imports
Charles Wald, the continent is taking on greatly that “anywhere they speak Hausa, Arabic or nearly a quarter of its oil from Africa – mostly from
increased importance. “Africa is becoming a Swahili, you have [extremist] recruiters”. Some Angola and Sudan. With the expected growth in available
strategic area, whether we like it or not – a large of the extremists have experience fighting in oil in the Gulf of Guinea and booming Chinese energy
population, many resources, lots of potential Iraq and Afghanistan, and the fear is that with consumption, Beijing is clearly poised to be a major con-
instability,” explains Gen Wald, one of the US illiteracy rates and unemployment running high, sumer – and possible rival – in the region.
military’s leading thinkers on African issues. large parts of Africa could be fertile ground for
The issues he outlined largely lie in three extremism if left unchecked. The officials note, President of the Nigerian Labour Congress Adams
often-interlinked areas: fighting instability to for example, several attacks during 2004 in Oshiomhole leads a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, on 11
head-off terrorism, securing future energy and northern Nigeria by the Al Sunna Wal Jama: a October 2004 as part of a nationwide strike to protest
resources, and humanitarian concerns headed by group that professes to draw inspiration from the against fuel price rises AP; 0590487
the HIV/AIDS crisis. Taliban.
Like on the land, Africa also has
problems of terrorists and their support
Preventing instability organisations using coastal waterways
The potential African areas of terrorism-related to move people, arms and funds.
concern stretch across most of the continent’s According to US counter-terrorism
north, down the west coast to Guinea and Nige- officials, the greatest concern is the
ria, across to the Horn of Africa, and to the areas large amount of dhow traffic in the
between where arms, money and fighters often waters off East Africa, an area associ-
flow, Gen Wald told reporters on 9 November. ated with piracy and smuggling. The
The Niger training mission is part of a larger officials say they believe much of the
US effort to address these concerns. Called the continent’s small-arms smuggling
Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Initiative occurs in that area: a problem made all
(TSCTI, formerly known as the Pan Sahel Initia- the more acute by the fact that few
tive), the US plans to spend over $100 million countries on the continent have the
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ability to patrol their coastal waters. “None of A US Marine Corps
these countries have the ability to have the slight- CH-53 Sea Stallion
est idea of what is going on [off their coasts],” helicopter takes part
says another official. in the Combined Joint
The waters of the Gulf of Guinea, where much Task Force ‘Horn of
of the continent’s proven oil reserves are being Africa’ exercise
discovered, is also largely ungoverned, US USMC; 0590492
military officials say. They note, for example,
that as much as $1 billion in Nigerian oil alone is
stolen every year from pipelines along the coun-
try’s coastal regions in a practice known as
‘plunking’.
Major General Jonathon Gration, EUCOM’s
Director of Plans and Policy, agreed, saying that
“it’s almost impossible right now” for most
African states to respond to a crisis off their
shores. However, with the number of important
oil wells growing in the Gulf of Guinea – often
located 150-200 nm offshore – US planners see a
large and growing potential vulnerability to ter-
rorist attack.
The problem, Gen Wald says, is that African
militaries have traditionally been dominated by
their ground forces. Now the US is encouraging
them to think about how to better secure their the effort gets under way, it will take time to one official notes: “An airplane is a bigger bomb
maritime borders. He says that Washington is begin paying benefits, he says. “You don’t build than a small boat.”
willing to help in this process, with the Gulf of coastal patrols overnight.” All this increased assistance will mean the US
Guinea Commission seen as “probably the best Already small coastal patrol craft – mainly will need more basing rights in Africa. US
political vehicle to start developing a [regional from US Coast Guard stocks – have been trans- officials say that they desire the rights to small,
maritime] security apparatus”. ferred to budding navies patrolling the waters in austere facilities called ‘security co-
At an October 2004 meeting of the commis- and around Africa. These include two 55 m WLB operation locations’ for refuelling aircraft, tem-
sion, members pledged “to improve coastal Balsam-class seagoing buoy tenders given to porarily housing small numbers of special
security capabilities that can combat piracy, pol- Ghana in 2001, four of the same class vessels operations forces or basing military training
lution, illegal trafficking of weapons, drugs and gifted to Nigeria in 2002 and 2003 along with teams. “We think this is a long-term relationship,
persons” as well as to reduce other maritime smaller craft to countries that include Madagas- but it is not a relationship where we will have
threats and upgrade information sharing. More- car, Nigeria, Djibouti, the Seychelles, Tunisia permanent troops in Africa. That is not the intent.
over, the participants said they would explore and Yemen. We will not do that,” Gen Wald explains. Rather,
regional maritime security and combined coastal Still, it is unclear whether US efforts to expand the US is seeking security co-operation locations
patrol solutions. security assistance into the maritime domain will that will require limited infrastructure upgrades
Washington is also considering a programme gain sufficient support. A number of US officials at facilities such as airfields to enable them to
to strengthen African coastal patrol and port say that, while maritime security around Africa is handle US aircraft or local military barracks for
security capabilities. US officials say, for exam- a problem, they do not favour spending scarce housing soldiers. According to Gen Gration, the
ple, that an expansion of the $100 million East resources on the issue instead of more pressing upgrades could include navigation aids for safe
Africa Counter-Terrorism Initiative is being con- needs. Several noted that they have not seen any flight, reinforcing runways to handle larger air-
sidered to address the maritime concerns. group in the region with the ability, for example, craft such as the C-5 Galaxy transport, longer
However, explained a defence official, even if to carry out a terrorist attack on oil platforms. As ramps and offload areas, and fuel storage or other
means to guarantee availability of JP-8-like avia-
tion fuel.
Gen Wald says that “we already have several
of those in places like Entebbe [Uganda]” and
“we have a refuelling agreement in Libreville,
Gabon”. Gen Gration notes that the US is look-
ing at other locations where such agreements
might provide additional operational flexibility.
Other officials say locations being explored
include Ghana, Namibia, Senegal and South
Africa. Many of them are at the key strategic dis-
tance of 5,500 km from other bases or refuelling
stops: the distance military planners prefer to use
for refuelling mobility aircraft.
Regional security
In addition to individual African nations building
A US Marine Corps sergeant instructs a Chadian up their respective military abilities to address
soldier as part of Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism terrorism, there are related efforts being con-
Initiative (formerly the Pan Sahel Initiative) ducted at the regional level for the larger
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problems of stability and security. One of the a humanitarian problem but also a military and gent in their testing.
largest, an African Union (AU) plan to stand up security concern. To alleviate such problems, some of the lead-
regionally-based rapid-reaction forces, has The ripple effect AIDS has on societies could ing African peacekeeping nations like Nigeria
gained strong US support. Gen Wald says, for well lead to other security problems as well. and South Africa have committed to deploying
example, that the forces receiving training under There are over 12 million youths orphaned by only AIDS-free forces for all external missions,
the TSCTI could form the core of the AU’s AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, the UN estimates. UN or not. However, the US defence officials
planned Northern African and Sahel unit. With the parental structure destroyed, US offi- say, the high infection rates and South African
Also, Washington plans to provide other assis- cials say they fear those children could become use of only volunteer personnel has led to diffi-
tance with the intent, Gen Wald says, of “helping vulnerable to recruitment by rebels, terrorists or culties generating enough units for some
Africans help themselves”. AUS defence official criminal gangs. “That is a nightmare scenario to operations. When they do they are almost always
says that the G-8 is considering how to support contemplate, but that is where we are heading in composite units, often lacking the cohesion nec-
the goal of training 75,000 peacekeepers world- many areas of sub-Saharan Africa,” says a US essary for full effectiveness. Now, the US
wide under the Global Peacekeeping Operations defence official, adding that in places like Sierra officials say, there is serious concerns about
Initiative (GPOI). Most of those peacekeepers Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo South Africa’s ability to generate enough AIDS-
would be African and many would receive train- there is already evidence of AIDS orphans being free peacekeepers to just replace those already
ing from a variety of US and European projects, pulled into rebel groups. committed and deployed. In South Africa and
including both multilateral efforts as well as Those countries, along with most of southern Nigeria, the officials say: “The political masters
bilateral projects like the US African Contin- Africa, have been among the hardest-hit regions. are making promises that their militaries are not
gency Operations Training and Assistance With infection rates ranging as high as 40 per cent going to fulfil. And even if they do they will start
(ACOTA) programme and the French Recamp of the population, great societal upheaval seems fulfilling those military commitments with less
project. almost certain. EUCOM’s Surgeon General, than desirable troops.”
The ACOTA programme is moving forward, Colonel Edward Huycke, says the armed forces After years of denying there was an
says US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of within those countries tend to be hit even harder HIV/AIDS problem, some African militaries are
State for International Organization Affairs than the national averages. In some African finally beginning to take it seriously. The number
James Swigert. ACOTA trained and equipped countries as much as 50 per cent of new military of African militaries requesting US assistance in
nine battalions – about 9,000 soldiers – in 2004 recruits are HIV positive. screening their troops for the virus and imple-
for duties such as peace-enforcement missions The impact of HIV/AIDS on African militaries menting prevention programmes have increased
with the AU or other regional groups, he says. is tremendous, particularly effecting military significantly. They realise that, if left uncon-
These troops are intended to be central to the readiness. The ability to train élite forces for trolled, there is a real danger that foreign
GPOI goals. The US also provided the Economic peacekeeping and other vital duties, for example, assistance toward professionalising and upgrad-
Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is greatly hampered by the high turnover rates ing African militaries would be wiped out as
with nearly $10 million in 2004 for its missions in caused when large percentages of troops are ill or experienced soldiers die off before fresh recruits
West Africa, and that figure is being expanded in dying from the disease. “Pretty soon a significant can be trained. One senior military official says
2005. percentage of your investment is dying or dead,” HIV “is just going to overwhelm the social struc-
says one official. ture and medical facilities in most of Africa”.
The precise scope of the problem inside Andrew Koch is JDW’s Washington DC
Heading off disaster African militaries is extraordinarily difficult to Bureau Chief and reported from Niamey, Niger;
One of the biggest challenges to improving determine because many countries consider it a Stuttgart, Germany; and Washington, DC
African stability and security is the terrible effect state secret. However the the impact is clearly Additional research by Erin Grier
caused by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. For the mil- large and growing, the US officials said. JDW Special Correspondent, Washington, DC
itary forces in Africa, the spread of HIV/AIDS “is Moreover, some countries have hesitated to This article was first available online on 4 January 2005
a huge strategic problem … the issue is readiness participate as, or accept, peacekeepers for fear For more, go online
of militaries”, says Gen Wald. “If their troops that they may further spread the virus. The US www.janes.com
have HIV/AIDS they cannot deploy. If they can defence officials note that there has been a history
not deploy, they can’t do their job and it goes of both peacekeepers deployed abroad and troops ‘The impact of HIV/AIDS on UN peacekeeping missions’
counter to everything we want to happen in demobilised at the end of conflicts bringing the (Jane’s Intelligence Review 1 December 2002)
Africa.” disease back to their local countries and villages. ‘US is now set to turn focus on African security’
(JDW 21 April 2004)
According to the UN, 70 per cent of the 45 mil- Although most countries say they screen troops
‘HIV in Africa: a special report’
lion people worldwide infected with HIV/AIDS for HIV/AIDS if they are going to be deployed (Jane’s Foreign Report 25 March 2004)
live in sub-Saharan Africa, and a July 2004 UN for possible UN peacekeeping duties, questions ‘US to bolster counter-terrorism assistance to Africa’
report states that 7.7 per cent of all Africans of remain over whether all the contributors are strin- (JDW 6 October 2004)
working age (15 to 49 years old) are HIV
infected. With such a high rate of the infection
among the segment of the population most relied
on to carry the burdens of society, the spread of
the disease threatens the collapse of poor states
that have been most highly inflicted. The eco-
nomic destruction, massive expected deaths and
loss of the working as well as parental generation A USMC Landing
“corrode and rip the fabric of society”, US offi- Craft Air Cushion
cials explain – so much so that several could well heads toward the
become failed states. And, says Dan Mozena, Manda Bay
director of the US State Department’s Office of Kenyan Naval
Southern African Affairs, “if those states fail, training area
they become breading grounds: safe havens for during exercise
the next batch of Osama bin Ladens”. That, the ‘Edged Mallet ’04’
officials say, makes HIV/AIDS in Africa not just USMC; 0590496
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NAVAL FORCES
Sonar 2087 to
Towed body handling system
start trials on
Type 23 frigate Active towed body
RICHARD SCOTT JDW Naval Editor

Portsmouth
T
he UK Royal Navy (RN) itself draws largely on Thales Towed array Transmitter
Type 23 frigate HMS Underwater Systems’ proprietary handling system
Westminster will under- Combined Active/Passive Towed com-
take two sets of trials in Array Sonar (CAPTAS) family of manding
2005 designed to pave the low-frequency active sonars – officer,
way for the introduction to ser- notably the active towed body and Comman-
vice of the new Sonar 2087 its free-flooded ring projectors. der Andrew
active/passive low-frequency Sonar 2087 was installed aboard Betton, Passive
variable-depth sonar system in Westminster during a year-long £25 Sonar 2087 is intended to enable towed array
early 2006. million refit undertaken by Babcock detection, classification and track-
Designed to significantly Engineering Services at Rosyth. ing of quiet submarine targets Nature Conservation Committee
increase the ability of the Type 23 The refit also included installation beyond their torpedo engagement and the Centre for Environment,
frigate to hunt down quiet sub- of the Sonar 2170 Surface Ship Tor- range. “We are talking of tactical Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
marines operating in both oceanic pedo Defence system, the Warship ranges of several dozens of miles,” at Lowestoft, East Anglia.
and littoral waters, Sonar 2087 Electronic Chart and Display Sys- he said, “which is some way beyond Dr Sam Healy, head of QinetiQ’s
combines a variable-depth low-fre- tem and modifications enabling what we can achieve with our cur- environmental team, said that the
quency transmitter, operating at Westminster to operate and support rent sonars.” range at which an animal might
frequencies down to 500 Hz, and a the Merlin HM.1 anti-submarine Westminster undertook an initial suffer was affected by “a range of
passive towed array, operating warfare (ASW) helicopter. series of mechanical handling trials factors, among them duration, fre-
down to 100 Hz. The system, which The full Sonar 2087 fit includes a in November 2004. “The next set of quency, source level, pulse shape,
replaces the earlier Sonar 2031Z towed body and associated handling trials, to be conducted in the north- directivity and the properties [such
low-frequency passive towed array, system on the quarterdeck, a towed west approaches [to the UK] during as salinity, pressure and tempera-
will operate in conjunction with the array handling system installed in January, will focus on system ture] of the water column”. She
existing Sonar 2050 medium-fre- what was previously the Sonar deployment, handling and recovery, added: “During recent trials off
quency hull-mounted sonar and 2031Z winch well, new power elec- said Cdr Betton. “In July [2005] we Scotland, a mammal would have
integrate with the Outfit DNA(1) tronics, and a new console outfit in will undertake a second set of trials, had to be within 500 m of the sonar
command system. the sonar room. The latter comprises this time looking more specifically at full power for 30 minutes to have
Thales Underwater Systems was five multifunction consoles (four at assessing operational perfor- suffered any permanent damage.”
awarded a £160 million ($295 mil- dual-screen operator consoles and a mance. We again expect that these Over £1.5 million has been spent
lion) demonstration, manufacture twin-screen sonar director’s con- trials will be undertaken in the to date on development of the EIA,
and support contract for the supply sole) mounted on a shock-absorbing northwest approaches as it’s an area which is designed to inform the
of an initial six Sonar 2087 shipsets raft. A remote sonar display is fitted where we already established a local MoD and RN as to measures that
in April 2001 following a protracted in the operations room. environmental impact plan.” can be taken to mitigate the potential
industry competition. The system According to Westminster’s impact of Sonar 2087 on the marine
environment. These range from the
Adverse potential avoidance of sensitive sites, such as
HMS The UK Ministry of Defence breeding areas, reducing transmitter
Westminster’s (MoD) acknowledges that Sonar source levels or stopping transmis-
sonar room. The 2087 has the potential to adversely sion altogether.
sonar director is affect the marine environment when Acomputer-based environmental
nearest to the operating in its active mode. In an command aid, known as the Envi-
camera, with the effort to allay the fears of environ- ronmental Risk Management
four dual-screen mentalists and support its own Capability (Sonar), is being pur-
sonar operator operating procedures, QinetiQ has chased by the DPA. Planned for
consoles ranged been contracted to develop a global fleetwide fit to RN vessels, this will
behind. Environmental Impact Assessment advise the command as to the envi-
(EIA). This has taken inputs from ronmental risk and an assessment of
R Scott/NAVYPIX; the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the actions to be taken in mitigating
0590507 the University of St Andrews, risk. However, MoD officials
Aberdeen University, the Joint acknowledge that in operational cir-
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tem integration. A Full Operating sonar used by the Merlin helicopter technology can be pulled through to
Capability increment designed to form the basis of an exploitation military demonstration.
further optimise performance may path intended to eventually deliver a “Systems such as Sonar 2087 and
be delivered from 2012. multistatic sonar capability. Multi- FLASH [Sonar 2089] have much
HMS Northumberland is the next static operation is where several greater ranges than previous genera-
Type 23 to receive Sonar 2087. It is receivers process signals that origi- tion sonars and can provide
Multifunction expected that Northumberland will nate from an insonifier or significant benefit if we can fuse
consoles run an operational trial in the second insonifiers in a different location, that data. Also, that ability to have
half of 2006 to demonstrate the sys- thereby significantly expanding the just one unit ‘pinging’ but several
tem at IOC standard. ASW battlespace and allowing other participants tracking, offers us
Having originally planned to buy co-operative assets to remain a major tactical advantage.
Schematic showing Sonar 16 Sonar 2087 shipsets to equip the acoustically covert or at a safe “There is significant investment
2087 ship fit in a Type 23 RN Type 23 fleet, and then revising stand-off distance. under way across NATO in low-fre-
frigate offtake downwards to 12 systems However, while the concept of quency variable-depth and active
Thales Underwater Systems; 0094786 in 2002, the MoD is reviewing multistatic ASW has been under- dipping sonars,” added Cdr
options for a follow-on procurement stood for some time, its realisation Lochrane. “My hope is that we can
to the six sets on order. JDW sources has been dependent on a number ‘industrialise’research in order to be
Receiver indicate the likelihood of an order of technical enablers maturing. able to demonstrate a capability
for another two ship sets only. These include robust networked before the end of the decade, with a
cumstances priority would be given connectivity between participating view to cementing multistatic ASW
to achieving the tactical objective units and the development of reli- as a core NATO capability by
over environmental mitigation. Assured access able track fusion techniques. 2015.”
Three sets of trials have foreshad- According to Commander Alex “NATO’s MO 2015 study This article was first available online
owed the installation of the first Lochrane, desk officer for Sonar marked out multistatic ASW as a on 5 January 2005
production shipset aboard Westmin- 2087 in the MoD’s Directorate of central pillar of future capability,”
ster. A first Ship Taken Up From Equipment Capability (Under Water Cdr Lochrane said. “The problem For more, go online
Trade trial (STUFT1) was under- Effect), the emphasis for RN ASW has been with how we bring www.janes.com
taken in the Bay of Biscay (both operations is now firmly on assured together the volume of data and fuse ‘Green issues loom larger in future’
deep and shallow water environ- access for expeditionary forces. it into a clear and coherent undersea (International Defence Review 1 August 2004)
ments) in mid-2002 aboard the “That means that the areas where we picture. Today, with the benefit of ‘Lower frequencies ping the littoral ASW
converted flat-back trawler Pelagia. expect to conduct future ASW are five to 10 years of research behind threat’ (Jane’s Navy International November
This was followed in March 2003 by likely to be noisier, warmer and shal- us, we are at the point where this 2004)
power train testing in deep water. lower, and thus much more
STUFT2 was conducted in areas acoustically challenging,” he said.
of the northwest approaches to the “Furthermore, the new threat of
UK from 9-14 June 2004, its aim the ultra-quiet diesel-electric sub-
being to rehearse (and therefore de- marine is very difficult to detect
risk) sea acceptance test procedures passively.
for the first production system. “We need to be able to enter any
The pre-production system was theatre of operations at the time and
deployed from the STUFT vessel place of our choosing. Legacy tech-
Maersk Achiever and trials per- nology no longer gives us the
formed against a submarine target. results, so the introduction of Sonar
Sonar 2087 is planned to achieve 2087, with its low-frequency active
an in-service date of May 2006, at capability, offers the potential to
which point the system is required to greatly improve the detection of tar-
have demonstrated its specified gets in shallow and noisy waters.
active detection capability. Initial Also, its variable depth capability
Operating Capability (IOC), allows us to exploit the conditions
enabled by Build 2 and 3 software, is throughout the water column.”
scheduled to follow in January 2007, Cdr Lochrane adds that Sonar
when additional functionality 2087 and the Sonar 2089/Folding
should deliver specified passive Light Acoustic System for Heli- The Sonar 2087 active towed body retracted into HMS Westminster’s quarterdeck
detection capability and combat sys- copters (FLASH) active dipping R Scott/NAVYPIX; 0585969
BrahMos to be deployed by India in 2005 launch of the missile took place in Rajasthan state on 21 December when the missile struck a
land-based radio-emitting target as opposed to waterborne targets of previous tests. Alexan-
BrahMos (PJ-10) supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles are scheduled for deployment with der Baskakov, BrahMos Aerospace co-director, told JDW that in the wake of BrahMos being
the Indian Navy starting in February, according to a Russian military official. introduced to the Indian Navy, the Indian Air Force Command has also taken an interest in the
In the near term, the annual output of missiles from joint Russo-Indian company BrahMos missile.
Aerospace will be between 20 and 30, with the company having ordered approximately this With the final delivery on 26 December of 32 Su-30MKI fighters to India, and licensed pro-
number of active radar homing heads for 2005. duction of 140 of these aircraft is established in the country, it will become possible to equip
Officials associated with the BrahMos project said the missile has a 100 per cent success Su-30MKIs with an airborne version of the BrahMos missile. Baskakov believes this is a fairly
rate out of nine test launches and attributed the success to the fact it contains components of difficult task, but there are already technological proposals in how to fulfill it.
the Oniks missile in service with the Russian Federation Navy since 2003. The ninth test Nikolai Novichkov JDW Correspondent, Moscow
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Reutech Radar
Systems busy in
export market
HELMOED-RÖMER HEITMAN JDW Correspondent
Cape Town
R
eutech Radar Systems The RRP 200 is a dual-channel Reutech Radar Systems antenna rotator features high in the company export
(RRS) delivered the system that makes use of mainly expectations Reutech; 0590510
first production RRP commercial off-the-shelf single-
200 dual-channel soft- board computers in a single 48.2 cm
ware signal processors rack-mounted configuration. It can precision aluminium antenna hous- and is part-owned by EADS. RRS
of a 12-unit order for “a European also be supplied in a version adapted ings, rotators and stabilised is also supplying the radar/optronic
coastguard” at the end of 2004. for use on moving platforms such as platforms for the EADS TRS-3D and optronic trackers for the South
The RRP 200 is a radar signal and patrol vessels. and similar radars. The rotators are African Navy’s four new MEKO
data processor that can be RRS has also developed a designed to accommodate a 500 kg A200 patrol corvettes, the sta-
integrated with a standard non-coher- 48.2 cm rack-mountable L-Band antenna load and to provide rotation bilised platforms for their Thales
ent magnetron-type navigation radar transceiver for frequency agile L- rates up to 60 rpm in “severe envi- MRR radars and the L-Band
to add air-surveillance capability to Band air surveillance radars to form ronmental conditions”. More than Kameelperd (Giraffe) local warn-
what is otherwise a surface surveil- part of a European radar upgrade 20 have been ordered to date. ing radar/battery command post
lance-only system. The RRP 200 programme, with the first of 12 units RRS is also supplying the sta- of the South African Army’s
also adds moving target indication delivered and integrated into the bilised platforms for the TRS-3D ground-based air-defence system
functionality, plot extraction and existing system. This unit comprises radars to be fitted to the German (GBADS).
tracking of air targets. a synthesiser that utilises direct digi- Navy’s K-130 class corvettes. This The company also has responsi-
These units will be used to tal synthesis technology, an platform is designed for 900 kg bility for the development of the
upgrade an existing coastal surveil- up-converter state and a dual-chan- antenna loads and provides both GBADS command and control
lance system. The first systems have nel receiver as well as the interface two-axis levelling and rotator system and the overall system
been integrated and their air target and timing control to integrate with functions for the mechanically integration.
detection successfully demonstrated the host system. stabilised TRS-3D. This article was first available online
to the client. Other export sales include high- RRS is part of the Reutech group on 6 January 2005
Vietnam receives M28 maritime patrol aircraft

The Vietnamese People’s Army Air Force has accepted equipment. The MSC-400 maritime surveillance system,
PZL; 0590508
two Polish M28 Skytruck short take-off and landing developed and manufactured by Przemyslowy Instytut
light transport aircraft manufactured by Polskie Telekomunikacji (PIT) research and development centre,
Zaklady Lotnicze (PZL) in Mielec. has not yet been ordered.
The aircraft are planned for maritime patrol and left The MSC-400 comprises the PIT ARS-400 maritime
Mielec for Hanoi on 30 December, ferried by factory surveillance radar, which is used on the Polish Navy’s
crews. Eleven Vietnamese pilots and six ground person- PZL M28B-1R ‘Bryza-1R’ maritime surveillance aircraft,
nel participated in a four-week conversion course at the and the CCS-400 command-and-control module with a
factory. data link.
Vietnam plans to order up to 12 PZL M28 Skytruck air- and smugglers as well as supporting economic zone The contract for an undisclosed number of MSC-400
craft, mostly configured for maritime surveillance and protection. The two aircraft already delivered are fitted systems for, at least, Vietnam’s first two aircraft is
border control. A high-ranking delegation from the Viet- for, but not with, dedicated maritime surveillance equip- expected to be concluded by the end of March 2005.
namese Ministry of Defence (MoD) recently visited PZL to ment. Grzegorz Holdanowicz JDW Correspondent, Warsaw
discuss other potential variants of the Skytruck The Vietnamese aircraft represent a new maritime
(pictured). patrol variant of the Skytruck, which has already been For more, go online
JDW has learned that Vietnam plans to place an order exported in transport and passenger variants. www.janes.com
for most of the remaining aircraft by the end of March, According to a memorandum of understanding signed
with deliveries to be concluded by 2007. in late October 2003 between the Vietnamese MoD and ‘Vietnam fulfils maritime patrol requirement at last’
The procurement of new maritime surveillance air- Poland’s Profus Management foreign trade company, the (JDW 3 December 2003)
craft would substantially increase Vietnam’s capabilities first aircraft were delivered in transport and passenger ARS-400 surveillance radar (Jane’s Radar and
in protecting its sea borders against insurgency, piracy configuration with provisions for medical evacuation Electronic Warfare Systems)
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JOHN YOUNG
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE US NAVY FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION
W
ith the US Navy’s surface ship building the DD-X if the rate is too low, Young notes.
programmes in turmoil follow- “At lower rates, efficiencies are lost and there would
ing budgetary cutbacks, not be enough work to provide stability.” If the navy
Congress and industry lead- decides to have a single shipyard work on the pro-
ers have raised serious gramme, he says, it could hold a winner-take-all
concerns about the future health of the US competition.
shipbuilding industry. Regarding the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) –
The service has taken these concerns into another navy priority – Young says a decision on
consideration, has outlined ways to stabilise the whether to compete the next phase of the programme for
industry and is embarking on new programmes that design and construction of Flight 1 will not have to be
will form a future seabase, says John Young, Assis- made for another year or two. “We want to see what Flight 0
tant Secretary of the Navy for Research, might produce.” One benefit of the LCS programme, Young
Development and Acquisition. says, is that it has been a test-bed for a more agile acqui-
“The 2006 budget – every iteration sition process. “LCS is important because it is
and variation of it – has considered a fundamentally different way of
workload implications on the ship- doing business in the Pentagon,”
yards. We are trying hard to be US DoD; 0590518
he says, adding that similar
conscious of the industrial base.” processes could be used in the
However, Young argues, “we MPF-F and LHA-Replacement
[also] have to be conscious of the
cost to the navy. If decisions come
“The 2006 budget … has programmes.
The new process is needed,
to the point where it is very costly”, Young says, because “the [exist-
those solutions will not be viable.
While Young declined to dis- considered workload ing] requirements process is not
working well … people talk about
cuss details of the yet to be shortening the traditional acquisi-
released Fiscal Year 2006 budget,
other sources say that several key implications on the shipyards” tion process. I can accelerate it by
two or more years if I can shorten
navy shipbuilding programmes the requirements’ generation time-
will suffer cutbacks or delays: the lines.” In creating the LCS, the
LPD-17 amphibious transport dock ship; DD-X future destroyer; and Vir- navy did just that by quickly combining inputs from the fleet as well as its
ginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine programmes. acquisition and requirements teams. “That process flowed much quicker
Young says that despite the cuts, “I believe the 2006 budget will codify than a two- to three-year requirements process,” Young said.
… a minimum of nine LPDs and we will continue to do analysis work” to The navy is also seeking new funding authorisation mechanisms. “I
determine the ultimate number to be built for the future seabase, which will believe designing lead ships and building them with research and develop-
also include Maritime Preposition Force-Future (MPF-F) ships. Building ment funds is the right thing to do,” he says, much like what was done with
the ninth LPD-17 is important, Young says, because “that guarantees the the LCS. This allows the navy to invest more in lean manufacturing tech-
ship swapping deal” whereby work on DDG-51 guided-missile destroyers nology. “We were given approval by the Office of Management and Budget
at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems was exchanged for work on LPD-17s (OMB) to do that for the lead ship [of a new class] and we were [also] given
at General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works. To complete the deal, in mid- to approval by OMB to split funds for some of the bigger ships” like carriers,
late-January Bath will receive the contract for the final DDG-51 the navy which otherwise throw investment accounts out of balance. Young adds
plans to build. that he would also like “industry to be able to manage its workforce by
Likewise, the DD-X destroyer programme faces cuts at a time when cost being allowed to use advanced procurement funds for labour”: a process
considerations are at a premium. “I know there is some concern about the not currently permitted by procurement regulations.
price of DD-X,” Young says, arguing that the ship offers more capabilities Young outlines what the future seabase might look like, including the
than generally acknowledged. “One analysis said that if you take today’s MPF-F, which will be the “anchor tenant”. The exact size and design of the
carrier strike group, remove one DDG-51 and insert one DD-X, it would MPF-F – for which the navy has a tentative target of acquiring 18 – will not
make a significant improvement in that carrier’s self-defence capability … be decided until it determines how much material and manpower the ships
the part that has been lost is that everybody thinks DD-X is a land-attack need to hold, how much of that needs to be moved ashore and how quickly
ship, and it is, but it also brings a dual band radar” and potential to hold Stan- that movement must happen. Options include “a couple of MPF-F ship
dard Missiles as well as SM-6 missiles for much improved anti-air warfare types – one carrying more trucks and heavy gear and the other carrying
capabilities. The navy maintains plans to eventually transition from DD-X marines and maybe another carrying aviation”. Cost is a key consideration
to a CG-X next-generation cruiser. Given the new analysis, however, Young because the MPF-F will be “as big or bigger” than existing large deck
says: “I don’t see as much urgency for [moving to] CG-X.” amphibious ships in the US inventory, which he says cost $2.5 billion each.
If the cuts to DD-X go beyond the short term, that may have further Andrew Koch JDW Bureau Chief, Washington, DC
industrial base consequences. “It may not make sense to have two yards” This article was first available online on 7 January 2005
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