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How greeting cards and joggers unmask warships
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (273+ words) Following an incident involving the French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle, in which a jogging crew member revealed his location via a fitness app, another case is now causing a stir: A simple Bluetooth tracker has revealed the position of…...
L3 Harris receives mega order from the German Armed Forces
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (200+ words) As part of the "Digitalization " Land Based Operations" (D-LBO) programme, the Bundeswehr has awarded several contracts worth a total of 190 million euros to the US defense contractor L3 Harris Technologies. This involves the delivery of interoperable communication systems " probably the PRC…...
Starlink exit hits Russian troops hard
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (475+ words) Russian war correspondents are currently reporting considerable problems with communication at the front. "The situation with communications has become very complicated," according to several reports. The background to this is apparently the extensive failure of Starlink systemson which Russian units…...
GOVSATCOM: EU sets milestone in space
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (285+ words) Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defense and Space, announced the launch of GOVSATCOM at the European Space Conference in Brussels. As of last week, all member states of the European Union now have access to "secure and encrypted" satellite communication…...
Netherlands relies on Thales for tactical communication
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (318+ words) The Dutch armed forces have signed a framework agreement with Thales Nederland to comprehensively modernize its tactical communications equipment. The core of the agreement is the delivery of a new SOTAS infrastructure that ensures communication in and between vehicles as…...