DSEi and the Dutch
…EADS, Ten Cate, DSM, Imtech, Stork and Van Halteren. Some large or multinational companies have their own stand, most smaller companies are part of the so-called Holland Pavillion, a collective…
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Garage sale for new drones
…Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, also known as ‘drones’Most likely candidates are Israel Aerospace Industries’ Heron II and the US Predator B, built by General Atomics. The latter was already discussed…
Arms deal with Thailand a novelty in reporting
…could be problematic as it has been implicated in the violence which rocked Bangkok in May 2010. Thai troops stormed an encampment occupied by anti-government protesters, unleashing a wave of…
Seeing in the dark
Over the past decades Dutch night vision equipment has been sold to military, police and security forces in dozens of countries across the world. In the 1980’s then producer Delft…
Wedding of the elephants: merger between BAE and EADS in the making
…when in January 2012 EADS military division Cassidian signed a joint venture contract with Bremen-based Rheinmetall Airborne Systems, providing access to both the German market and the technical input from…
EADS claiming its place in rapidly expanding cyber warfare market
Behind the scenes of the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip a cyber war has also been going on. Israeli hackers penetrated and paralyzed the website of The Hamas…
Killer drones for Europe
…capacity since 2007, and has been used that way in assassination operations over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Dutch minister of Defence certainly has ambitions in the field of…
Military exercises and arms
In recent weeks, the U.S. Africa Command annual regional exercise and operation Flintlock took place. Thousand of soldiers from eighteen countries cooperated in this international event for Special Forces. This…
Controlling cyber technology by Catch-all
…industry because it brings much more products under obligatory reporting. Vanderkerckhoven en Kreijen wrote on the demand for technological specifics: “(..) it seemed contradictory that a ‘Catch-all’-provision would be updated…
Profiteurs van wapenhandel: overheid en aandeelhouders
…Campagne tegen Wapenhandel actie tegen pensioengeld voor oorlogsgeweld. Inmiddels hebben al heel wat pensioenfondsen hun beleggingen uit wapenbedrijven teruggetrokken. Helaas zijn er nog steeds een aantal die geen moeite hebben…