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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX) to Support Canada's National Security with Advanced ISR Imaging Technology
On Monday, L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LHX) announced it was awarded a contract by the Canadian Commercial Corporation for 16 WESCAM MX-20 surveillance and targeting systems for the Royal Canadian Air Force's P-8A aircraft. The systems will help conduct critical maritime and overland patrol and reconnaissance missions. A military jetfighter against a deep blue sky with the sun behind it. Tom Kirkland, Vice President and General Manager, Targeting and Sensor Systems, at L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LHX) stated the following on the agreement: 'Integrating our proven technology with the P-8A equips Canada with the most advanced ISR imaging solution. Maritime and national security, including missions in the Arctic, require extremely reliable systems like the WESCAM MX-20 to enhance critical security coast-to-coast.' The latest contract builds on L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LHX)'s announcement last year to supply 11 WESCAM MX-20 systems for Canada's fleet of MQ-9B SkyGuardian, a remotely piloted aircraft. The company has delivered approximately 8,000 WESCAM MX-Series EO/IR systems to customers worldwide. These systems are active in more than 87 countries, supporting air, land, and sea missions on over 260 different platforms. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LHX) is a vital player in the aerospace and defense industry, specializing in end-to-end technology solutions connecting the air, space, land, and sea domains in national security. The company is currently being tapped for America's $175B Golden Dome System project. You can read more on this here. While we acknowledge the potential of LHX as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than LHX and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: ChatGPT Stock Advice: Top 12 Stock Recommendations and 10 Cheap Rising Stocks to Buy Right Now. Disclosure: None.
Newsweek
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
US Ally Sends Warship to China's Doorstep Amid Tensions
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Australia has deployed a warship in the contested South China Sea after China conducted an unprecedented naval circumnavigation of the United States' ally in the South Pacific Ocean. Canberra said Australia has a "long history" of operating in the South China Sea, where the Chinese territorial claims overlap with those of several neighbors, including the Philippines. The Chinese military responded by vowing to "resolutely safeguard" the country's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights in the South China Sea while upholding peace and stability. Why It Matters From mid-February to early March, a Chinese naval task group, consisting of a destroyer, a frigate, and a replenishment ship, sailed around Australia outside its territorial waters, which extend 12 nautical miles [13.8 miles] from the country's coastline, in a clockwise direction. Meanwhile, on February 11, an Australian maritime patrol aircraft experienced an "unsafe and unprofessional" interaction with Chinese fighter jets over the South China Sea. Beijing asserted that the intercept was legitimate, accusing Australia of intruding into its airspace. What To Know HMAS Sydney, one of three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers in service with the Royal Australian Navy, deployed on April 3 for a three-month mission in the Indo-Pacific region, known as the Regional Presence Deployment 25-2, the Australian Defense Department said. Following the conclusion of Exercise Bersama Shield 2025, which was held in and around Malaysia from April 7 to 22, the Sydney took part in training events in the South China Sea on April 24 and 25 with the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the U.S. Navy, respectively. A New Zealand P-8A maritime patrol aircraft flies over the Australian destroyer HMAS Sydney on a routine surveillance flight in the South China Sea on April 24, 2025. A New Zealand P-8A maritime patrol aircraft flies over the Australian destroyer HMAS Sydney on a routine surveillance flight in the South China Sea on April 24, 2025. Australian Defense Department The first training involved a New Zealand P-8A maritime patrol aircraft, while the second one was a joint sail with the U.S. littoral combat ship USS Omaha. The U.S. Navy said the sail supported a free and open Indo-Pacific and enhanced the combined force's capabilities. On Tuesday, the Australian warship joined the U.S. and the Philippine militaries for the Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity in the West Philippine Sea, referring to the portion of the South China Sea that lies within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone. The Armed Forces of the Philippines said this multilateral engagement, which involved air and maritime assets from the three countries, demonstrated "a strong commitment to regional security, interoperability, and cooperation in support of a rules-based international order." While the Sydney was transiting the Philippine waters, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Southern Theater Command conducted what it called "routine patrols" at an undisclosed location in the South China Sea, the Chinese military said the following day. What People Are Saying The Australian Defense Department said: "These training activities [in the South China Sea] were conducted in accordance with international law, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ... Deployments to the region are a demonstration of Australia's resolve to support an open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific." The Chinese People's Liberation Army Southern Theater Command said: "Recently, the Philippines has frequently violated rights at sea, provoked and caused incidents, and enlisted foreign countries to organize so-called 'joint patrols.' The Chinese People's Liberation Army Southern Theater Command's naval and air forces have been on surveillance and alert throughout the whole process, and the situation is under control." What Happens Next It remains to be seen whether the Sydney would transit the Taiwan Strait located to the north of the South China Sea. China has declared that it has "sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction" over the waterway that separates China's mainland and the self-ruled Taiwan.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Australia air force pilots also heard Chinese navy live-fire warning on radio
By Kirsty Needham AVALON, Australia (Reuters) - The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), monitoring a Chinese navy warship as it circumnavigated Australia last month, heard it warn it would use live fire in its exercises on a civilian radio broadcast, defence pilots said on Tuesday. A People's Liberation Army Navy frigate conducted the unprecedented live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand in February, causing 49 commercial flights to be rerouted. China has said it gave adequate warning about the drill under international law, but Australian and New Zealand authorities said it fell short of best practice for notifications. Commercial airlines first heard about the live-fire drill when a Virgin Australia pilot picked up a Chinese navy broadcast on the 121.5 MHz emergency radio channel. Ahead of a national election due by May, opposition Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton criticised the Labor government for "a situation where our national maritime surveillance was outsourced to a Virgin airline pilot". At the Australian International Airshow in Avalon on Tuesday, RAAF maritime surveillance pilots said Australia's P-8A Poseidon were flying "high duration, high frequency sorties" and monitoring the Chinese navy warship's transmissions on UHF and VHF at the time, in details that had not previously been made public. "The transmissions that came through are just standard warnings of their positions as well as their intent of live-fire exercises," said P-8A Poseidon flying officer Patrick Makeham. He described this as "similar to saying that we will be conducting live firing exercise in those areas". Air Commodore Gus Porter, director-general of RAAF air combat capability, said the P-8A aircraft were used for anti-submarine warfare and to deter aggression. "You don't need to be on top of a task group 24 hours a day to be tracking exactly what they are doing," he added. The RAAF P-8A aircraft conduct routine surveillance patrols in international waters in the South China Sea, which China has criticised. Australia last month complained to China over what it was "unsafe and unprofessional" actions by a Chinese fighter jet releasing flares within 30 metres (100 feet) of an Australian P-8A aircraft.
Reuters
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Australia air force pilots also heard Chinese navy live-fire warning on radio
AVALON, Australia, March 25 (Reuters) - The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), monitoring a Chinese navy warship as it circumnavigated Australia last month, heard it warn it would use live fire in its exercises on a civilian radio broadcast, defence pilots said on Tuesday. A People's Liberation Army Navy frigate conducted the unprecedented live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand in February, causing 49 commercial flights to be rerouted. China has said it gave adequate warning about the drill under international law, but Australian and New Zealand authorities said it fell short of best practice for notifications. Commercial airlines first heard about the live-fire drill when a Virgin Australia pilot picked up a Chinese navy broadcast on the 121.5 MHz emergency radio channel. Ahead of a national election due by May, opposition Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton criticised the Labor government for "a situation where our national maritime surveillance was outsourced to a Virgin airline pilot". At the Australian International Airshow in Avalon on Tuesday, RAAF maritime surveillance pilots said Australia's P-8A Poseidon were flying "high duration, high frequency sorties" and monitoring the Chinese navy warship's transmissions on UHF and VHF at the time, in details that had not previously been made public. "The transmissions that came through are just standard warnings of their positions as well as their intent of live-fire exercises," said P-8A Poseidon flying officer Patrick Makeham. He described this as "similar to saying that we will be conducting live firing exercise in those areas". Air Commodore Gus Porter, director-general of RAAF air combat capability, said the P-8A aircraft were used for anti-submarine warfare and to deter aggression. "You don't need to be on top of a task group 24 hours a day to be tracking exactly what they are doing," he added. The RAAF P-8A aircraft conduct routine surveillance patrols in international waters in the South China Sea, which China has criticised. Australia last month complained to China over what it was "unsafe and unprofessional" actions by a Chinese fighter jet releasing flares within 30 metres (100 feet) of an Australian P-8A aircraft.
See - Sada Elbalad
22-02-2025
- Politics
- See - Sada Elbalad
DPRK Ministry of National Defence: We Will Counter Enemies' Strategic Threat with Strategic Means
The chief of Information Office at the DPRK Ministry of National Defence on Friday issued the following press statement "We will counter the enemies' strategic threat with our strategic means": Since the emergence of the Trump administration, the U.S. and its vassal forces are getting evermore pronounced in their military provocations threatening the security environment of the DPRK. On Feb. 20, the U.S. staged a provocative joint air drill with the ROK by dispatching B-1B strategic bomber into the sky over the Korean peninsula. Earlier, on Feb. 19, it test-fired the ICBM Minuteman 3 at the Vandenberg Space Force Base towards the target in the Pacific. Such military muscle-flexing of the U.S. clearly show the invariable supremacy ambition of the present U.S. administration to gain an overwhelming edge of strength through the maintenance and updating of military capabilities capable of mounting a nuclear attack on any country and region of the world without prior warning. The U.S. provocative military moves in the vicinity of the DPRK in less than two months this year are a clear answer to where the real threat increasing the world's concern over peace and security originates from. Since Feb. 3, the U.S. military has waged a provocative joint live-shell firing drill with the ROK military gangsters, mobilizing thousands of troops and 150-odd pieces of military hardware of various missions in the area just 30 km away from the southern border of the DPRK. The U.S. deployed a nuclear submarine in the Pusan operation base from Feb. 10 to 15, and on Feb. 13 in the ROK Bombardier BD-700 Global Express, the latest reconnaissance plane of a new generation which underwent a flight-test last year. It has also conducted air espionages on the DPRK's areas from Feb. 15 with the mobilization of various tactical and strategic reconnaissance planes including P-8A sea patrol plane and RC-135V. The U.S. is also mulling again staging the large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield, which includes seven rounds of brigade-level joint field maneuvers more compared to that of last year, in March in collusion with ROK in order to push the military tension in the region to an extreme phase. The typical Yankee-style arrogance and shameless and gangster-like double-standards logic of the U.S., which brands the DPRK's nuclear deterrence for self-defence as an injustice means and places "legality" and "regularity" on former's moves for bolstering up nuclear force for hegemony, can never work on the DPRK. The DPRK's nuclear force is a means for legitimate defence to safeguard the national sovereignty and the security of the region. Its rapid and accelerated bolstering up is a realistic requirement for coping with the military threat of the U.S. and its satellite countries which are getting more rampant recently. The adventuristic military moves of the U.S. premised on the use of nuclear strike means in an actual war are getting brisk and the hostile forces' attempt at military confrontation is getting ever more undisguised. This reality clearly proves why the DPRK armed forces' building up of the capability to fight a war with nuclear deterrence as a pivot is a just and inevitable option. The DPRK's solution to the military threat and challenge to the security being posed by the U.S. is clear and consistent. The DPRK will counter the strategic threat of the U.S. and other enemies with strategic means and continue its responsible military activities to control and manage the unstable security environment on the Korean peninsula with powerful deterrence.
