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

Prime Minister Scott Morrison ordered two senior naval officers<\/a> to research alternatives to Australia\u2019s $90 billion submarine contract with France\u2019s Naval Group. Naval Group is yet to finalise<\/a> its commitment to spend 60% of the contract value on Australian suppliers, something that\u2019s put the deal for 12 submarines under strain and in part spurred a visit<\/a> by the company\u2019s chief executive, Pierre-Eric Pommellet. Meetings with ministers and officials reportedly resulted in Pommellet\u2019s verbal commitment to the project and an in-principle agreement<\/a> to the 60% figure. Given the sunk costs, time and credibility bound up in this project, it\u2019s unlikely it will go under<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Japan has authorised its coastguard to fire at foreign vessels<\/a> aiming to land on the Senkaku Islands. Japanese officials have reframed foreign landing attempts as \u2018violent crimes,\u2019 so that direct aggression wouldn\u2019t contradict the nation\u2019s self-defence-oriented stance. The announcement follows China\u2019s enactment of an aggressive new coastguard law<\/a>, which has been associated with an increase in Chinese intrusions into Japanese maritime territory. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga reaffirmed his preference for a free and open rules-based order over \u2018force or coercion.\u2019<\/p>\n

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

Yesterday, Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force completed<\/a> the first test flight<\/a> of a pilotless jet dubbed the \u2018loyal wingman\u2019<\/a>. The unmanned aircraft took off independently and flew a predetermined route supervised by a Boeing test pilot on the ground. The loyal wingman is the first military aircraft designed and manufactured in Australia since World War II. The project aims to be a landmark step in integrating autonomous systems with crewed aircraft in human\u2013machine teams.<\/p>\n

Last week, US President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes<\/a> against Iran-backed militia operating in the Syrian town of al-Bukamal on the Iraqi\u2013Syrian border. US combat aircraft, reportedly<\/a> F-15E fighter jets,<\/a> dropped seven 500-pound (227-kilogram) precision bombs on seven targets<\/a>, including warehouses and command-and-control centres, focusing on destroying facilities rather than causing casualties. The campaign was in retaliation for a rocket attack<\/a> on a US airbase at Erbil in Iraq\u2019s north in February, which killed<\/a> one civilian contractor and injured nine others.<\/p>\n

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

US officials recently visited<\/a> two Australian munitions production factories, at Mulwala in New South Wales and Benalla in Victoria. The visit followed a commitment made at the last year\u2019s AUSMIN dialogue<\/a> to enhance bilateral defence trade. The US representatives inspected the manufacturing process for 155-millimetre artillery projectiles that are expected to be supplied to US Indo-Pacific Command. The visit is considered as a starting point for both countries to explore further collaborations on other munitions.<\/p>\n

A new type of high-mobility vehicle for US infantry soldiers was recently tested in the desert in Arizona and the first unit is scheduled to be in service by April. The vehicle is based largely on the Chevrolet Colorado ute and will enable infantry combat teams<\/a> to transport up to nine soldiers with their equipment rather than having them travel on foot. The Pentagon has signed a contract worth US$214.3 million<\/a> with GM Defense for 649 vehicles, though the army hopes to eventually have 2,065.<\/p>\n

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

On 26 February, NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover landed on Mars inside the Jerezo Crater. The US$2.7 billion mission will examine rocks and soil in the crater, which was a lake billions of years ago, to try to find evidence of previous microbial life, forming part of NASA\u2019s larger plan to \u2018explore the past habitability of Mars<\/a>.\u2019 The rover will spend at least two years on Mars collecting samples and assessing the planet\u2019s climate to better understand the possibilities for further human exploration. Exploration of Mars is gaining momentum, with spacecraft from China<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates<\/a>\u00a0currently orbiting the red planet.<\/p>\n

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has released a report<\/a> advising that better defence mechanisms are needed to adequately protect satellites from grey-zone warfare. China and Russia are among those building weapons that disrupt and destroy satellites in orbit. Although little can be done to stem the creation of anti-satellite weapon systems, the threat they pose can be countered by technological and tactical strategies, such as using decoys to confuse the weapons\u2019 sensors.<\/p>\n

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

India has introduced new rules<\/a> for big tech, adding to the challenges that companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are facing from governments around the globe. Social media firms will need to identify unlawful, violent or misleading content within 24 hours and will be required to break into encrypted messages. The government claims that the law is intended to make social media companies \u2018more responsible and more accountable\u2019. However, some worry that it\u2019s a direct response<\/a> to the government\u2019s notorious disagreement with Twitter over its refusal to remove tweets during the recent widespread protests against proposed agricultural laws.<\/p>\n

New concerns have been raised over users\u2019 data privacy on Silicon Valley\u2019s social media platform Clubhouse<\/a>. The audio-based app, which lets people listen to discussions in live chat rooms, is reportedly<\/a> recording users\u2019 audio, deleting information and sharing identification data. Clubhouse has been criticised<\/a> for encouraging users to share their contact lists and then monitoring email addresses and phone numbers without express permission from non-users. Clubhouse\u2019s data-handling practices are also not clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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