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The Long and Costly Odyssey of the British Army’s Ajax Family of Armoured Fighting Vehicles

The initial groundwork behind the development of the Ajax family of vehicles was laid out under the British Ministry of Defence’s Future Rapid Effect System program. Its objective was to modernise the British Army’s arsenal of armoured fighting vehicles by procuring a range of specialised vehicles. Two main variants were proposed: a utility vehicle (UV) designed to assist in protected mobility, command and control, light armoured support, repair and recovery or medical support missions, and a specialist vehicle (SV) for scouting, armoured personnel carrying, repair, and recovery tasks. The UV part of the programme was taken on in 1999 by the Germano-British Boxer armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) produced by ARTEC GmbH. However, this progress was halted in 2003 by the British Ministry of Defence as this model, though quite effective on the ground, did not fit into A400M and C-130 Hercules aircrafts for transport.

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10 August 2021
Read more about the article The Turkish Bayraktar TB2: Ankara’s Renewed Prominence in the Drone Market
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The Turkish Bayraktar TB2: Ankara’s Renewed Prominence in the Drone Market

The Turkish Bayraktar TB2 is becoming a bestseller on the unmanned combat aerial vehicles’ market, increasing Turkey’s defence industry’s already strong confidence. At the beginning of this month, an €8 million contract between Albania and the Turkish consortium Kale-Baykar was made public (Malyasov, 2021), following agreements signed by the company with Poland, Qatar, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Morocco (Brownsword, 2021). Turkey is slowly catching up to the United States and Israel as the world’s leading seller of surveillance drones by producing and exporting its own indigenous systems. At the moment, a TB2 variant and the Akinci drone are being developed in a joint effort by Turkey and Ukraine, and a MALE-drone is being co-produced with two Saudi manufacturers (Brownsword, 2021). The Turkish combat drone has revealed to be a first choice for countries with smaller budgets and limited airpower capabilities like Azerbaijan and Albania. The more affordable and very efficient Bayraktar TB2 allows these countries to modernise their armies.

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5 August 2021
Read more about the article The Development of the EU Cyber Security Strategy and its Importance
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The Development of the EU Cyber Security Strategy and its Importance

Over the last few years, many EU documents on cybersecurity have been published (Falessi, 2012, 2-6). The European Security Strategy included cyber threats as a new risk to European security (Klimburg, ed. 2011, 5-11). The EU is active in two cybersecurity areas. The first area consists of the necessary measures applied to combat cyberattacks, including cybercrimes. The second area consists of applying the necessary measures to support critical infrastructure protection and network security. The Common Foreign and Security Policy of cyber issues is underdeveloped, mainly due to the difficulties in approaching the subject. According to a European Parliament Study, cyber issues are perceived to be a matter often left to member states (MS).

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2 August 2021
Read more about the article European Defence Fund: Dilemmas and Potentials
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European Defence Fund: Dilemmas and Potentials

The launch of the €7.9 billion European Defence Fund (EDF) materialises years of talks and debates over the emergence of a European defence industrial and technological cooperation. The EDF is set to finance defence capability and critical technologies projects such as the next generation of aircraft fighters, tanks, semiconductors, cybersecurity, or communication systems.

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27 July 2021
Read more about the article European Defence Agency is Ready to Pursue Artificial Intelligence in Defence
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European Defence Agency is Ready to Pursue Artificial Intelligence in Defence

Consensus on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in defence has hardly been achieved throughout the European Union (EU). Indeed, many EU states are strictly opposed to AI in defence, whereas others have mildly advocated for and promoted research and development (R&D) in AI (Stauffer, 2020). The European Defence Agency (EDA) held a workshop on ‘Defence Applications of Artificial Intelligence’ in the last week of June 2021 (European Defence Agency, 2021), during which experts from all member states (MS) came to discuss R&D of AI in defence. Indeed, this is a prominent topic this year, as R&D of AI is considered the future. Many third countries such as China and the US have already dedicated significant time and resources into R&D of autonomous weapons and are even said to produce this technology (Chan, 2019).

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22 July 2021