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Challenge for Small Navies Outsourcing - Means of Improving Tooth-to-Tail Ratio Doha Hosts 48th Artistic World Championship 2018 IAAF World Athletics Championship 2019 | Volume 2 Edition 3 | Page 1 the editorial Dahra has completed two years of training Qatar Emiri Navy (QEN) officers and in this period a lot has been achieved. New infrastructure has been created, new courses have commenced and training formalised. To top these achievements , the Naval Warfare and Operations Training Center (NWOTC), located in the QEN Base in Doha, has been awarded ISO 29990-2010 certification by SGS. Our focus issue for this edition is concerning small navies, we discuss challenges they face and address a contemporary issue, that of optimising the Tooth-to-Tail Ra- tio through Outsourcing. Simulators are an essential part of our training thus we have a write up on ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ of Simulator Training in the Training & Simula- tion section. Another article brings out the relevance of education and training for the military and one of our instructors brings out his experience of teaching in Doha. In the Tech & Innovation part, a member of the Dahra’s Equipment & Maintenance team speaks about the experience of an important maintenance work undertaken recently. The Chit-Chat Section gives an insight into the happenings in Qatar. We soon say goodbye to the heat and the humidity of Summer 2018, and welcome the end-of-year season. Best wishes from the Editorial Team and Happy Reading. P.S. Please keep the contributions, reviews and feedback coming 02 Page 2 | The Dahra Quarter | table of contents 04 Defence News 06 Focus Issue Challenge for Small Navies Outsourcing – Improving Tooth-to-Tail Ratio 10 Training & Simulation Simulator Training Education & Training for the New Age Soldier Driving a grey Land Cruiser 14 Technology & Innovation Satellite Based Automatic Identification System (AIS) Retro-Fitment of 900A & 400A MCCBS North Sea Passage—A New Silk Route Artificial Intelligence & The Military 18 Chit - Chat How Qatar is Beating Plastic Pollution? Marine Environment Watch in Qatar A Glimpse of the Doha Metro Crossword Puzzle 48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Qatar Permanent Residency ID Cards & Its Privileges The Story of Astrolabe 5G is Here Why facts don’t change our mind? Innovative and Fan-Centered 2019 IAAF World Championship 03 | Volume 2 Edition 3 | Page 3 Defence News NEW DEVELOPMENTS variants”. Leonardo says that its part of the support and QATAR AIR FORCE training deal – for the 12 NFH naval helicopters – spans an eight-year period. Qatar will establish a new airbase called “Tamim Airbase”. The Air Base will be developed to welcome new aircraft and ORDER OF APACHES systems that are being inducted in the Air Force. This includes the French Rafale fighters, American F-15 fighters, Eurofighter Qatar is on track to receive its recently ordered Boeing AH-64E Typhoon and other advanced aircraft. The Qatari Emiri Air Apache Guardian attack helicopters from 2019 through to mid- Force has seen significant development after 2014, and Doha 2020. The Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) project officer said on has concluded several major deals over the past months. In December 2017, Qatar signed an agreement with the UK to buy 24 Eurofighter Typhoon after two successive agreements with the US to buy 36 F-15QA fighters and with France to buy 12 Rafale fighters. In a path-breaking achievement in 2018, the Air Force has also welcomed the first female batch as pilot candidates. NH 90 HELICOPTERS Qatar’s government has finalised an order for 28 NH Industries NH90 military helicopters that are scheduled to be delivered between 2022 and 2025. NH Industries is jointly owned by Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo and Fokker. 13 August that the first batch of 24 helicopters ordered in 2016 Italian aerospace group Leonardo – which acts as overall will be received before the end of next year. Deliveries will be prime contractor for the deal valued at more than €3 billion complete by the end of May 2020. EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON Qatar made its first payment to BAE Systems for its procurement from the United Kingdom of Eurofighter Typhoon multirole jets and Hawk trainer jets. The deal, worth around £5 billion ($6.6 billion) includes NH 90 Helicopters 24 Eurofighter Typhoon multirole jets and nine Hawk trainers, and a bespoke support and training package. Typhoon deliveries are expected to begin in 2022. ($3.4 billion) – says that it has booked the order. The contract It includes the formation of a new Royal Air Force Eurofighter covers provision of 12 NH90 NFH naval helicopters, 16 TTH Typhoon squadron that will temporarily integrate personnel from troop transports, support services, training and certain Qatar. The joint No. 12 squadron will see Qatar Emiri Air Force infrastructure. The Rome-based group will assemble and pilots and ground-crew based at RAF Coningsby. deliver the 12 NFH naval helicopters from its facility in Venice, No. 12 squadron will have a role in security during the 2022 FIFA while Airbus Helicopters will be responsible for the final Football World Cup in Qatar assembly of the 16 TTH transports. Leonardo says the programme could be extended in future “with the addition of six plus six units in a mix of TTH and NFH Page 4 | The Dahra Quarter | NAVAL WARFARE AND OPERATIONS TRAINING CENTER (NWOTC) AWARDED ISO 9001-2015 & 29990-2010 FIRST MILITARY TRAINING CENTER IN QATAR TO BE CERTIFIED The NWOTC, which is located inside the Qatar Emiri Navy (QEN) Naval Base at Doha and is being utilised for conducting Officers’ Operational Training, has been assessed and awarded ISO 9001-2015 and 29990-2010. Dahra has met the exacting standards of ISO in designing, developing and delivering naval training to Officers. ISO 29990 is awarded to a service provider who meets the basic requirements for learning services for non-formal education and training. This achievement is even more special because this is the first Military Training Center in Qatar to have been awarded this certification. QEN BASIC COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION COURSES PASS OUT The Second Basic Navigation and Communication Course batches passed out from the QEN Navy School on 20th September. The Gradua- tion Ceremony was held at the Naval Base and Brig (Sea) Hamad Al Dosari, Deputy Commander of QEN, gave away the certificates and handed over trophies to the prize winners. BASIC COM 02 BASIC NAV 02 | Volume 2 Edition 3 | Page 5 Focus Issue Based on the criteria given in the Table, 2, to perform coastal defence the author has proposed the following autonomously and to participate, within ranking of navies, coalitions, in limited projection operations Rank 1 – Symbolic Navies Navies go beyond the above-mentioned These navies cannot fulfill any mission duties and enter the field of combat properly, including policing territorial operations. waters. To attain this rank it is enough to CHALLNGE FOR possess an established organizational Rank 4 – In addition to Rank 3 SMALL NAVIES structure. responsibilities, participate autonomously in high intensity projection operations The large, well-to-do navies have Rank 2 – Navies able to conduct police principles of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Julian and constabulary operations in their These navies possess range, Corbett etc to guide their strategies, but sustainability and autonomy. what about small navies? What should be their raison d’etre for existence? This article will attempt to give a food for Seapower offers attractive advantages to any nation thought in that regard. because of its mobility, cost-effectiveness, inbuilt What is a Small Navy? It is difficult to flexibility and the ability to effect a development without define a small navy. It can be said that a navy which is not large is a small navy. actually having to use any force But then all navies when compared with the US Navy should be considered to be small. Rank 5 – Navies are able to perform any territorial waters (and sometimes in their type of mission in any part of the world Basil Germond in his paper ‘Small Navies EEZs), and to contribute to coastal without any outside help . in Perspective: Deconstructing the defence (mainly in cooperation with allies) Hierarchy of Naval Forces’ has given To attain this rank, a navy should The importance of navies and their role in criteria and indicators to rank the navies. possess a number of patrol boats the national strategy has been discussed The ranking criteria and the indicators are adapted to the geographical area to and analysed over centuries. Several given in the Table below. police. analysts have concluded that navies form an essential segment of keeping peace Table— Criteria for ranking navies Rank 3 – Navies able, in addition to Rank and ensuring prosperity. Norman Criteria Indicators Friedman, in his book ‘Seapower as Order of battle Number of Vessels Strategy, Navies and National Interests’, Tonnage and type of ships has argued that seapower offers attractive advantages to any nation Order of effect Power of weaponry because of its mobility, cost- State of modernity effectiveness, inbuilt flexibility and the Versatility/ Flexibility Types and diversity of missions ability to effect a development without Range/ Sustainability Geographical Reach actually having to use any force. Capacity for sustained operations If one takes the above argument as a fact Logistics and afloat support then having a navy is essential for all Automation and cooperation/ Capacity to operate autonomously interoperability maritime nations. The countries which Capacity to operate within a condi- realised the potential of Seapower and tion had the resources to develop and nurture Other qualitative and politi- Professional qualifications their navy have become Rank 4/5 navies. cal adjustment variables Sailors’ moral dispositions Other navies remained small because Correlation between means and ob- jectives their resources were restricted, due either Voluntary limitations Page 6 | The Dahra Quarter | to their state’s limited economic a concept called the Integrated Knowledge performance or their wealth or to their Command and Control (IKC2).