Thursday, January 2, 2014

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 2, 2014

A F-35C on June 27, 2012. US Navy Photo

Navy: F-35C Will Be Eyes And Ears Of The Fleet -- USNI

The Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will be the eyes and ears of the fleet inside highly contested airspace when it enters the U.S. Navy’s arsenal in large numbers in the 2030s.

“Let’s say we’re in an anti-access environment and we’re going to go deep, we would launch all the airplanes off, get them all set, and we would push the F-35C way inside,” Rear Adm. Mike Manazir, the Navy’s director of air warfare told USNI News on Dec. 20. “He would go in there using his X-band stealth technology, and go in there and he would get radar contacts and surface contacts and would ID them for us.”

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

China mulls revamping military regions: Japan report -- Zee News

China's first aircraft carrier completes South China Sea drills -- Reuters

Liaoning to conduct core weapon system training to assess three core capabilities -- People's Daily

What was 2013 like for Russian Armed Forces? -- Voice of Russia

Risky Opportunity for New German Defense Minister -- Spiegel Online

Japan's Global Hawk to debut in FY15 -- Japan Times

India Awards $1B Contract for 6 More C-130Js -- Defense News

India Scraps AgustaWestland Helo Deal Over Bribe Claims -- Defense News/AFP

Vietnam receives first Russian-made submarine -- Zee News

Nations vie for clout in Arctic; US far from lead -- AP

Va. ship being readied for Syria weapons disposal -- AP

Mechanical malfunction caused fuel leak that downed B-1B -- Air Force Times

Surveillance network built to spot secret nuclear tests yields surprise scientific boon -- Washington Post

Socom Leads Development of ‘Iron Man’ Suit -- US Department of Defense

Looking for a college major? How about drone technology -- Stars and Stripes/USA Today

Businesses Deny Helping NSA Plant Bugs in Americans' Gadgets -- Daily Tech

The iPhone has reportedly been fully hacked by the NSA since 2008 (Update: Apple denies working with NSA) -- Venture Beat

Apple insists it did not work with NSA to create iPhone backdoor program -- The Guardian

DARPA Names Top Stories of 2013 -- PCBDesign007

Air Force member's allegation of sex assault brings him more grief -- Stars and Stripes/Tribune Washington Bureau

Inside the Pentagon’s sexual revolution -- Washington Times

Pentagon Says Rare Earth Elements Less at Risk -- Charles Kennedy, The Diplomat

Confronting Reality: The Saudi-Pakistani Nuclear Nexus -- Thomas Lynch, War On The Rocks

Marines’ role cannot be shortchanged -- J. Randy Forbes & Bryan McGrath, UT San Diego

These Fast-Acting Response Forces Could Prevent Another Benghazi -- Joseph Trevithick and David Axe, War is Boring

Coming to terms with Big Brother -- Gwynne Dyer, Stars and Stripes/Gulf Daily News, Manama, Bahrain

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