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• India’s Multi-billion Dollar Scorpene Sub Contract

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  Scorpene cutaway (click to view full) In 2005, India confirmed that it would buy 6 Franco-Spanish Scorpene diesel submarines, with an option for 6 more and extensive technology transfer agreements. This is one of the biggest military deals India has entered into with France, and is intended to both modernize ...
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• More AN-124s On The Way

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  Antonov AN-124: One rocket, to go… (click to view full) Antonov’s AN-124 Condor began as a Soviet super-heavy military transport aircraft that would be even larger than the American C-5 Galaxy . After coming out on top in that particular ‘mine is bigger than yours’ contest, the AN-124 outdid its American ...
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• Reforming distance education in Portugal

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 500
  Tajo el Castillo de Almourol, Portugal (from Flickr © Hamster Volador, Creative Commons License) Hasan, A. et al. (2009) Reforming Distance Learning Higher Education in Portugal Lisbon Portugal: Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
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• Israeli Manufacturers’ $150M Turkish UAV Contract Endangered

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  IAI Heron (click to view full) In April 2005, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems won an contract to supply medium endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Turkish military. Turkey’s local industry would provide sub-systems and services amounting to 30% of the contract. The contract’s ...
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• Pakistan’s JF-17 Fighter Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  FC-1/ JF-17, armed (click to view full) Back in January 2007, DID wrote: “The military world has no shortage of irony. The defense industry has its moments too, as Pakistan just discovered. An aircraft whose development was driven by military sanctions from the US and Europe is now derailed by military ...
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• Russia’s SU-35: Mystery Fighter No More

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  SU-35 flight test, 2009 (click to view full) As one of our readers noted, DID’s articles from 2005-2007 seem to describe 2 different SU-35s. One is a mid-life modernized SU-27 Flanker, but there’s also much more re-engineered “SU-35” variant with canards, thrust vectoring, etc. has been confused with (and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Using clickers on multiple sites in a distributed undergraduate medical program

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 500
  Terris, B. (2009) University Uses ‘Clickers’ to Quiz Students in Multiple Location Chronicle of Higher Education , September 14 The University of British Columbia recently completed a trial of a new satellite polling system by i>clicker, which sells student-response systems. The new system allowed students ...
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• What is a virtual campus?

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 500
  Reynolds, S. (2009) Are European Virtual Campuses Different? Re.Vica Newsletter , September A very interesting, brief article on virtual campuses in Europe, and the implications of the Bologna process for internationalization of higher education within Europe. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how ...
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• India & Israel’s Barak SAM Development Project(s)

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  Barak launch (click to view full) Despite a development timeline measured in decades, India’s indigenous “Akash” and “Trishul” programs for surface to air missiles have failed to inspire full confidence. Trishul was eventually cancelled entirely, and Akash is now slated for limited deployment only. ...
  3 weeks ago

• A400M Delays Creating Contract Controversies

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  A400M rollout, Seville (click to view full) Airbus’ A400M is a EUR 20+ billion program that aimed to repeat Airbus’ civilian successes in the military market. A series of smart design decisions were made around capacity (35-37 tonnes/ 38-40 US tons, large enough for survivable armored vehicles), extensive ...
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• AIA Pushing Toward Industry eBusiness Standards

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  AIA’s eBiz “Radar” (click to view full) The American Aerospace Industries Association and UK’s A|D|S recently announced new global standards for trading partner and electronic collaboration agreements between prime contractors and suppliers. It’s a small step toward a broader AIA vision, which includes ...
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• South Africa to Cancel its A400M Order

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  Scratch one flag… (click to view full) In April 2005, South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin expected the cost of the SAAF’s 8 planned Airbus A400M medium-heavy military transport aircraft to be EUR 830 million. That converted to R 6.5 billion at those exchange rates, or about $177.75 million ...
  4 weeks ago

• LPD-17 San Antonio Class: The USA’s New Amphibious Ships (updated)

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  LPD-17 cutaway (click to view full) LPD-17 San Antonio class amphibious assault support vessels are a new class of ship which is just entering service with the US Navy. Much like their predecessors, their mission is to embark, transport, land, and support elements of a US Marine Corps Landing Force. What changes ...
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• India’s Light Helicopter Contract Hits Turbulence, Rises

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  Austrian Alouette-III (click to view full) In 2003, India issued an RFP for 197 light helicopters to replace its Army’s aging fleet of Chetaks (Aerospatiale SA316 Alouette III) and Cheetahs (SE316B Alouette II). These helicopters are old designs, but they have consistently proven themselves in high altitude ...
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• Developments at the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 500
  The October 2009 edition of Connections , the newsletter of the Commonwealth of Learning, included the following news report: ‘The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) has launched its own website ( www.vussc.org ). The site is a gateway to information about VUSSC activities and ...
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• BAE & VT Group Finalize, then Dissolve, UK Surface Ship JV

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  As part of Britain’s Defence Industrial Strategy , the Labour Party government and Ministry of Defence actively sought to reduce the number of companies involved in naval surface ship building and maintenance. In fact, they wanted just one company to deal with. Monopolies tend to drive prices up and effectiveness ...
  4 weeks ago

• Malaysia Receives its SU-30MKMs, Replaces MiG-29s Early

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  Malaysian SU-30MKM (click to view larger) On May 24/07, a rollout and demonstration ceremony was held for the first 2 Su-30MKM fighters for the Royal Malaysan Airforce (RMAF) at Russia’s Irkutsk Aviation plant. Malaysia flies the F/A-18D Hornet, and was offered Boeing’s F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, but chose the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Saving local journalism: some thoughts ahead of C&binet

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 598
  I’m sat on a train on the way to the C&binet session at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport looking at the question of what the government should do – if anything – to save local journalism. Here are my notes: The problem is not journalism The vanity of journalists often leads to chest-beating ...
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• Consortia Of European Scientists Show New Role For Master Patterning Genes In Defining Number Of Vertebrae In Spine

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 164
  Vertebrates have in common a skeleton made of segments, the vertebrae. During development of the embryo, each segment is added in a time dependent manner, from the head-end to the [...]
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• Germany Leases Israeli Herons for Afghanistan

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 564
  IAI’s Heron-TP (click to view full) Germany has just added itself to the list of countries leasing UAV services for the Afghan conflict, by signing a contract with Rheinmetall Defense and their partners at Israel Aerospace Industries to provide an unspecified number of Heron UAVs as the SAATEG ( System zur ...
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