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As Tensions Heighten, Ukraine and Poland Seek Closer Defence Ties to the UK  

The ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine has resulted in Ukraine and Poland seeking closer defence ties to the UK. This desire for closer cooperation has now become codified in a new security pact between the two eastern European countries and the UK, announced on 17 February 2022. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the agreement seeks to deepen ties between the three countries in vital areas of national defence, primarily “in matters of cyber security, energy security and countering disinformation.” Further details of what the security pact entails are expected soon, as the three countries are expected to publish a “yet-to-be-developed memorandum of understanding” in the coming days.

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22 February 2022
Read more about the article Greek Government Asks Parliament to Approve Major Arms Deal
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Greek Government Asks Parliament to Approve Major Arms Deal

The Associated Press (AP) reports that the government of Greece is asking its parliament to approve a 3 billion-euro ($3.4 billion) defence agreement. The agreement in question is a purchasing deal for “three new French-made frigates,” negotiated between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Greek counterpart Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in September of 2021. According to the frigate manufacturer, the French state-owned company Naval Group, the first two frigates will be delivered in 2025 and the third in 2026.

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21 February 2022
Read more about the article First Successful Uninhabited for a UH-60A Black Hawk Helicopter
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First Successful Uninhabited for a UH-60A Black Hawk Helicopter

On 8 February, the US company Sikorsky, owned by the Lockheed Martin group, communicated that they completed the first-ever two uninhabited flights with a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter. These first flights are linked to the testing of a new technological system for autonomous driving called MATRIX. The initiative is part of the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program, launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It aims to develop portable and removable automation systems for helicopters.

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17 February 2022
Read more about the article Raytheon Develops New Software to Bypass the Language Barrier in Research
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Raytheon Develops New Software to Bypass the Language Barrier in Research

Retrieving information has always been a key requirement of intelligence analysis. Yet, for centuries, the language barrier has presented a crucial obstacle. In 2017, IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) launched its MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program to solve the age-old problem of cross-language data retrieving. Five years later, Raytheon BBN Technologies seems to have found the solution. The American conglomerate, battling with competitors such as Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, designed software capable of translating search results from all languages to English.

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17 February 2022
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Turkey and Ukraine TB2 drone agreement

NATO member Turkey and its Black Sea ally Ukraine have agreed to coproduce Turkish-made military drones at a production site in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Defence Minister Olesii Reznikov has recently made public the bilateral agreement between Turkey and Ukraine in the military defence industry.

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16 February 2022