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

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced<\/a> a new maritime security agreement with Timor-Leste, which includes a deal for Australia to fund a new wharf at the Hera naval base and provide two Guardian-class patrol boats to the country. The announcement was made<\/a> during a visit by Morrison to Dili, where he declared a \u2018new chapter\u2019 in relations between Australia and Timor-Leste. The commitment bears similarities to the one in Papua New Guinea, where Australia and the US will help redevelop the Lombrum naval base on Manus Island.<\/p>\n

China has denied<\/a> a US Navy warship\u2019s request to visit the Chinese port city of Qingdao, according to a US defence official. It\u2019s the second time China has denied a request by the US Navy in the past month, having previously rejected a request for two US Navy ships to visit Hong Kong. While China\u2019s defence ministry has yet to comment, experts claim<\/a> that the refusal was a \u2018natural result of the worsening bilateral ties between China and the US\u2019.<\/p>\n

British defence company QinetiQ has won<\/a> a \u00a318.7 million (A$34 million) contract with the Royal Navy. Technology known as \u2018Operational Assessment of Signatures Informing Susceptibility\u2019, or OASIS, will help reduce the acoustic and electromagnetic signatures of the Royal Navy\u2019s submarines and ships, making it harder for them to be detected. QinetiQ\u2019s Steve Fitz-Gerald said<\/a> that the contract will \u2018play a significant role in the modernisation … and development of capability for our forces\u2019.<\/p>\n

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

Aerospace company Saab completed<\/a> the maiden flight of its first Brazilian Gripen E fighter last week. President and CEO Hakan Buskhe said the milestone was a \u2018testament to the great partnership between Sweden and Brazil\u2019. The aircraft is the first<\/a> Gripen E fighter produced for Brazil and is part of a US$5.4 billion deal signed <\/a>back in 2014, which called<\/a> for the construction and supply of 36 Gripen fighters, comprising 28 single-seat Gripens and eight two-seaters.<\/p>\n

A US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has become<\/a> the first B-2 ever to land in Iceland. The aircraft arrived at Naval Air Station Keflavik, where it spent five hours. The USAF said the purpose<\/a> of the flight was to \u2018conduct theater familiarization … and to demonstrate US commitment to allies and partners\u2019. It also highlighted Keflavik\u2019s potential as an emergency diversion or staging location for B-2s.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Kronstadt Group showcased<\/a> a new drone at the MAKS 2019 aerospace and defence exhibition in Zhukovsky. Kronstadt says the medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle has a payload of 1,000 kilograms and will be able to conduct patrols over the Arctic and Pacific oceans as well as monitor Russia\u2019s exclusive economic zones. The UAV has a claimed cruising speed of 295 kilometres per hour and a flight endurance of 40 hours at full load.<\/p>\n

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

Three contenders have submitted<\/a> their final bids to replace the Australian Army\u2019s fleet of Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters from the mid-2020s as part of the LAND 4503 program. The army wants a \u2018proven and mature, off the shelf-manned armed helicopter\u2019. The candidates to replace the Tiger are Bell\u2019s Viper and Boeing\u2019s Apache, while Airbus is offering what it says would be a more than $3 billion saving by extending the Tiger\u2019s service life to the 2040s.<\/p>\n

The Australian Army\u2019s 51st Battalion is hosting<\/a> a trilateral military exercise with forces from the US and China in Far North Queensland. The exercise, called Kowari, promotes \u2018friendship and co-operation\u2019 by encouraging military personnel from the three countries to work together in the Australian bush. It\u2019s hoped activities such as hiking, canyoning and sea kayaking as well as bush survival training will enable \u2018important people-to-people connections\u2019 and enhance regional security.<\/p>\n

Poland has expressed<\/a> an interest in joining the European main battle tank project, which is being spearheaded by France and Germany. The project is part of an initiative founded in 2017 to allow EU member states to engage in joint military projects. Poland\u2019s desire to join the scheme reflects a broader trend among Eastern European countries that are seeking to replace their Soviet-era tanks with modern Western ones.<\/p>\n

Final frontier<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following a \u2018mysterious explosion\u2019 at Iran\u2019s Imam Khomeini Space Center on Thursday, US President Donald Trump posted<\/a> a high-resolution image of the location to Twitter, though he denied any US involvement in what\u2019s thought to be a failed rocket launch. Trump has been questioned<\/a> over his choice of image, as a redacted classification appears to be in the top left-hand corner of the image. The quality and detail of the now very public image have enabled observers to identify<\/a> the satellite used as one of the US National Reconnaissance Office\u2019s classified KH-11 Evolved Enhanced Crystal satellites.<\/p>\n

NASA activated<\/a> its Deep Space Atomic Clock on Friday, marking the official beginning of its year-long mission. The atomic clock is the first onboard clock that\u2019s \u2018stable enough to map a spacecraft\u2019s trajectory in deep space\u2019 and will enable spaceships to calculate their own trajectories and navigate through deep space independently.<\/p>\n

Engineers from NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have attached the first extraterrestrial helicopter<\/a> to the agency\u2019s Mars 2020 rover. After landing on Mars, the helicopter will detach itself from the rover and conduct a series of tests to determine whether or not the autonomous vehicle can be flown in the planet\u2019s extremely thin atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has confirmed<\/a> in an article for Prospect<\/em> that a cyberattack on one allied nation constitutes an attack on them all, triggering a \u2018collective defence response\u2019 pursuant to Article 5 of the organisation\u2019s founding treaty. He wrote that NATO will operate and defend itself in cyberspace in the same way it does \u2018in the air, on land, and at sea\u2019.<\/p>\n

US Cyber Command carried out<\/a> a covert cyber operation against Iranian intelligence systems in June amid \u2018an undeclared cyberconflict\u2019 between the two countries. The systems targeted by the US were reportedly being used by Iran\u2019s paramilitary arm to target commercial vessels in the Gulf. While Iran is still in the process of recovering from the intrusion, it\u2019s thought that it may have learned critical information about Cyber Command\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n

Security researchers from Google have uncovered<\/a> a hacking campaign involving a number of malicious websites which exploited software flaws in iPhones over a two-year period. It\u2019s reported<\/a> that the websites were used to target the Uyghur community in Xinjiang in what appears to have been a state-sponsored attack. By gaining access to a phone, hackers would have had access to the target\u2019s messages, passwords and location, which, if true, is worrying given the Chinese government\u2019s detention of more than a million<\/a> Uyghurs in \u2018re-education\u2019 camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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