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Sea state<\/strong><\/p>\n

During his visit to Beijing, Australia\u2019s Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, was formally rebuked by his Chinese counterpart. Chinese Navy commander Shen Jinlong condemned the Australian Navy<\/a> for having \u2018compromised the overall trend of peace and stability in the area\u2019. The rebuke came as the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative<\/a> published new analysis showing that China has built 72 acres of new islands in the disputed South China Sea this year. Beijing claims<\/a> that its island-building is peaceful \u2018except for appropriate self-defence\u2019.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump signed the 2018 National Defence Authorization Act<\/a> on Tuesday, making the target of a 355-ship US navy official government policy. The act doesn\u2019t specify a timeframe or give funding details for the expansion. Funding is a particular concern given the restraints put on government spending by the 2011 Budget Control Act<\/a>. The lack of clarity from the government means that American shipbuilders<\/a> haven\u2019t yet taken steps to prepare for an increase in production.<\/p>\n

Indian minister of defence Nirmala Sitharaman announced this week that India has launched<\/a> its second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. The indigenously designed Arighant<\/em><\/a> was launched in November and was \u2018built with extensive Russian design and technical support\u2019.<\/p>\n

Flight path <\/strong><\/p>\n

Defence Minister Marise Payne took to Twitter<\/a> to congratulate the six graduates of the RAAF fast-jet pilot course. Among them were two women\u2014the RAAF\u2019s first female fast-jet pilots. You can find an overview of \u2018female firsts\u2019 in the air force here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christmas is near and the 2017 iteration of the US military\u2019s \u2018longest running humanitarian airlift operation\u2019<\/a> is in full swing. Operation Christmas Drop is a training exercise to improve the military\u2019s humanitarian aid capabilities\u2014along with strengthening interoperability<\/a> with participating Japanese and Australian forces. The mission delivered supplies to more than 20,000 people<\/a> in remote Micronesian communities over an area of around 6 million square kilometres in the West Pacific. Photos can be found here<\/a> and video footage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With battlegrounds shrinking in Syria, a serious clash between Russian and US forces may be only a matter of time. In an incident<\/a> confirmed by the Pentagon, two Russian Su-25s entered the airspace east of the Euphrates River that\u2019s controlled by the US-led coalition. US F-22s fired warning flares, released chaff<\/a> and tried to communicate with the Russian pilots through an emergency radio channel. But the Russian jets only left the area after 40 minutes of \u2018multiple manoeuvres\u2019<\/a> and a near-collision.<\/p>\n

Rapid fire<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final results<\/a> of the ADF blood donation challenge are in and the army has landed in first place, with 2,666 donations. The Defence organisation beat its own target of 7,000 donations: a national total of 7,314 will positively affect almost 22,000 lives.<\/p>\n

AP<\/em> reports<\/a> that the private military contracting firm Wagner has deployed thousands of Russians to Syria to fight Islamic State. The report is the result of investigative work by the newspaper Fontanka<\/em> and the Conflict Intelligence Team. Most of the Russians were attracted to join Wagner by the money. Their deaths don\u2019t appear on official records and allow the Russian government to present low casualty numbers. Russian law officially \u2018forbids the hiring of mercenaries or working as one\u2019.<\/p>\n

The British army\u2019s Exice Maiden team is the first all-female team to attempt to cross Antarctica from coast to coast only using muscle power. On Sunday, the six women, who all serve in the army or army reserve, reached the South Pole<\/a>, marking the completion of the first third of their journey. Their reaction to reaching the pole is captured in a blog post on their website<\/a> titled \u2018Hello from the bottom of the earth!\u2019.<\/p>\n

Zero gravity<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the New York Times<\/a><\/em> this weekend, two F\/A-18F Super Hornet pilots revealed that in 2004 they saw an unidentified flying object during a routine training flight 100 miles out in the Pacific. Video footage has confirmed the pilot\u2019s testimony. UFOs have long been the subject of the public\u2019s collective imagination, and the object of study by the US Department of Defense. An accompanying New York Times<\/a><\/em> article reveals details of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which oversaw UFO sighting investigations at the Pentagon from 2007 to 2012.<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Dragon capsule has made it<\/a> to the International Space Station in time for Christmas, after being launched by a Falcon X rocket making its second flight. The successful launch of the reusable rocket was the 20th \u00a0by the company, and the 16th success in a row. The launch can be viewed on YouTube (video<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Carol R\u00e4\u00e4bus from the ABC has written a festive article<\/a> about astronauts who have spent Christmas in space. During the first manned mission on the moon, Apollo 8 astronauts were also the first to celebrate Christmas in orbit, releasing this video<\/a> on 24 December 1968.<\/p>\n

Wired watchtower<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three men pleaded guilty in a US court to creating the Mirai botnet<\/a> and using it for financial gain. Mirai, which infected more than 300,000 devices<\/a>, was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service attacks. The men monetised the botnet by renting it to others and \u2018demanding payments to halt attacks\u2019<\/a>. To create \u2018plausible deniability\u2019 for Mirai, Paras Jha, one of the creators, published the botnet\u2019s source code online, which led to other attacks.<\/p>\n

Security firm FireEye detected and responded to a \u2018watershed\u2019 cyberattack on Triconex<\/a> industrial safety systems in the Middle East. Triconex is used \u2018in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants\u2019. The system was compromised<\/a> by malware known as Triton, which can prevent safety mechanisms from functioning as intended. FireEye released a statement<\/a> saying that the attacker was \u2018developing the capability to cause physical damage\u2019.<\/p>\n

The US army\u2019s experience of cyber operations against IS could shape the future of combat<\/a>. A unit called Joint Task Force Ares in the US Cyber Command worked with intelligence, cyber, special ops, and international partners against IS. General Raymond Thomas, the head of US Special Operations Command, said the military can \u2018only achieve exquisite effects like this\u2019 by combining various capabilities, \u2018including cyber weapons\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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