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Security & Defence European a 7.90 D European & Security ES & Defence 6/2016 International Security and Defence Journal COUNTRY FOCUS: SPAIN Close-In Ship Defence ISSN 1617-7983 • www.euro-sd.com • Training and Simulation A Fighter for the Information Age Current trends and international programmes F-35 LIGHTNING II status report November 2016 Politics · Armed Forces · Procurement · Technology job number client contact 00684_218_IDEX2017 September Print Ads_Euroatlantic Defence News, West Africa Security & Greek Defence News IDEX Joenalene final artwork size colour designer proof print ready 210mm (w) x 297mm (h) CMYK Tina 1 Y idexuae.ae The Middle East and North Africa’s largest defence and security exhibition returns to Abu Dhabi in February 2017. The global defence industry will continue to meet influential VIP’s, decision makers, military personnel and key investors at IDEX 2017. Attracting more than 1,200 exhibitors and 101,000 local, regional and international trade visitors and officials from government industry and armed forces. For detailed information about IDEX 2017, please visit www.idexuae.ae To book an exhibition stand or outdoor space, please email [email protected] 19-23FEBRUARY2017 ADNEC,ABUDHABI,UAE StrategicPartner PrincipalPartner Organisedby HostVenue Inassociationwith Editorial Afghanistan Needs More Support At the present time all eyes are on the Ban Ki Moon called for “a strong message war in Syria, and the despairing efforts of support for the people and the govern- to achieve at least a temporary ceasefire. ment of Afghanistan”. This is causing another war zone almost On 16 October 2016 the EU and the to disappear from public notice: Afghani- government in Kabul agreed to speed up stan. Since the end of the ISAF mission in the return of Afghan refugees who have 2014, the security situation in Afghani- been unable to obtain asylum in Europe. stan has deteriorated horrendously. Best This could affect tens of thousands of estimates are that Afghan government refugees. Aid organisations, however, troops control no more than two-thirds are accusing the EU of using the develop- of the country. The Taliban are as well- ment aid as a means of applying pressure. established there as they have ever been The “Save the Children” organisation since being toppled in 2001. Despite the has called the forced returns “extremely billions which the West has pumped into worrying”, since “violence and conflict in rebuilding the country, the end result is Afghanistan have increased over the past plain to see. two years”. The EU Representative for For- Certainly, some rays of hope should not eign Affairs, however, Federica Mogherini, be overlooked. There has been good pro- maintains that the EU has kept develop- gress in the education sector. Ten million ment aid independent of the relocation children are now going to school, more agreement. “There is no connection be- than ten times as many as in 2001. Infant tween them”, she said. mortality has been cut by a quarter, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg life expectancy in Afghanistan has risen emphasises that the Alliance will continue from 42 to 62 years. But the Taliban insur- to support Afghanistan despite handing gents now control more regions than ever over responsibility for security to the Af- before, the number of civilian casualties of ghan army and police two years ago. The the conflict has reached new record levels, need for development and an improve- and the losses which the Afghan army has ment in the security situation go hand in had to incur are so high that its military hand, he said. US Secretary of State John capacity in the long term is under threat. Kerry has called upon the Taliban to join The recent terrorist attacks in the capital in peace discussions with Kabul. “There Kabul have clearly brought it home that is a way to end the conflict with honour”, the Taliban have only lost a little of their he said. The Afghan president Ghani combat capability. maintained that the Afghans are in a po- The latest attacks on the northern Afghan sition to secure peace. His government city of Kunduz occurred only one day be- sees itself as “committed to a constructive fore a donor conference for Afghanistan policy, not destructive” was held in Brussels, at which Afghan Whether the billions in aid will bring president Aschraf Ghani participated. The about stability and an upturn in the Hindu aim of the two-day event in Brussels was Kush is by no means certain. Afghanistan to agree on promises of billions in aid. The has to this day been a country which is EU and its member states want to support exploited by its elites. The billions in aid Afghanistan with €1.2bn annually up until from the West, too, often becomes the 2020, precisely because the security situ- booty of the clans. Improving the lives ation continues to be extremely unstable. of the 33 million Afghans will take more At the last major donor conference in than pumping billions into the country. To Tokyo in 2012, US$16bn (€14.3bn) was tackle the causes of the refugee crisis, do- committed for a comparable period of nors will have to monitor the implemen- time. The Brussels gathering was attended tation of the projects very closely on the by representatives from 70 countries and spot, and create a new administration. 20 organisations. UN General Secretary Henning Bartels November 2016 · European Security & Defence 1 Content Space-Based Reconnaissance Systems COUNTRY FOCUS: SPAIN (Image: DLR) (Photo: GDELS) • Security Policy The Space Strategy for Europe points out that EU space- • Armed Forces based applications can provide additional operational • Procurement capacity for the implementation of the European Common • Defence Industry Pages 14-32 Security and Defence Policy. Page 52 SECURITY POLICY ARMAMENT & TECHNOLOGY 7 Security Issues in the Mediterranean 37 Aspects of International Armoured Vehicle Giulia Tilenni Development 11 Ukraine’s Energy Security and Energy Foreign Rolf Hilmes Policies on the Way to Europe 41 Training and Simulation Developments Frank Umbach William Carter 48 F-35 LIGHTNING II: A Fighter for the COUNTRY FOCUS: SPAIN Information Age Doug Richardson 14 Ready to Adapt The Spanish Defence and Security Alignment 52 Space-Based Reconnaissance Systems Nuria Fernández Technological Trends and Current European Programmes 18 The Spanish Armed Forces in the 21st Century Nicholas Fiorenza Fernando García Sánchez 55 Defence Procurement in Denmark – 25 “Most programmes managed by DGAM involve Current Programmes significant challenges in the long term.” J. Bo Leimand Interview with Lieutenant General Juan Manuel García 57 Close-In Ship Defence – Confronting Missile Montaño, Director General of Armament and Material, Threats Spanish Ministry of Defence David Saw 28 Spanish Perspective, Global Vision The Spanish Defence Industry 62 Russia’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Adolfo Menéndez Debalina Ghoshal 30 “Navantia has the clear objective to increase its presence in the international market.” INDUSTRY & MARKETS Interview with Gonzalo Mateo-Guerrero, 63 Russian Defence Industry in the Era of Putin Commercial Director, Navantia Eugene Kogan 67 Turkey: Maritime Strength and the Naval Industry ARMED FORCES Korhan Özkilinc 34 Keeping NATO Connected 72 Meggitt on the Export Trail Interview with RAdm. Thomas Daum, Ph.D., Interview with Winn Hines and Darren Shavers, Chief of Staff, NCI Agency Meggitt Training Systems (MTS) 2 European Security & Defence · November 2016 Index of Advertisers Bren-Tronics, Inc. 45 VIEWPOINT FROM … 10 Edinburgh: Enforce Tac 5 To Stay or not to Stay – Scotland Considering EXPAL 17 Brexit John Cooke General Dynamics European Land Systems 27 HOMSEC 31 IDEX 2nd cover ISDEF 17 61 COLUMNS LAAD 3rd cover 1 Editorial Meggitt Training Systems 4th cover 4 Periscope RUAG Defence 43 66 Masthead Shield Africa 35 75 Firms & Faces Theissen Training Systems GmbH 47 76 Preview U.T. SEC 3 November 2016 · European Security & Defence 3 utsec17_210x150_INT_EN_EuropeanSecurityDefense.indd 1 08.11.16 07:19 Periscope French Naval Aerial Drone aircraft vibration levels. These signals Programme are processes via a centralised computer (df) Airbus Helicopters and DCNS are through a software algorithm that inter- joining forces to design the future tacti- prets the data and sends commands to cal component of France’s Naval Aerial force generators located under the pi- Drone (Système de Drones Aériens de lot seats. These force generators create (Photo: New Zealand Army) la Marine – SDAM) programme. DCNS’s “anti-vibration” that stops the progres- role in the partnership will be to design sion of vibration due to the main rotor, and supply the entire warship-integrated and creates a more comfortable vibration VTOL drone system. DCNS will design and environment for the aircrew. The product develop the solutions for the ship-based made by LORD Corporation is a direct/ Systematic will provide an Enterprise Li- operation and integration of the drone, drop-in replacement for the previously cense for the full SitaWare Suite including including the specification and validation used passive tuned vibration absorber. Headquarters, Frontline and Edge prod- of the payloads and mission data links. According to Mike Janowski, Manager ucts,” explains Mike Magill, President DCNS will also produce the drone’s mis- of Electromechanical Design at LORD, Systematic Asia-Pacific. “This enables sion system, which will enable real-time the IVCS is easily installed using existing interoperable C4I capabilities at all lev- mounts on the CHINOOK aircraft and els of command including not just static outperforms the legacy system. headquarters units, but also vehicles and dismounted commanders. In addition to Advanced Training the COTS based software at the heart of for UAS the C4ISR capability, we will also assist (df) Simlat has delivered an advanced the NZDF team in providing architecture (Photo: Airbus Helicopters) Simulation and Training System for the and system design services, along with Altavian NOVA Unmanned Aerial System implementation and integration support.
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