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Army Likely To Use ‘Jet Packs’ For Aerial Surveillance On Borders

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SRINAGAR: The Indian Army is gearing up to turn their soldiers into real-life ‘Iron Man’ with the help of jet pack suits that will provide them with enhanced surveillance capabilities at the country’s borders with China and Pakistan, as well as in the conflict ridden region of Jammu and Kashmir, The EurAsian Times reported.
These suits are propelled by engines running on gas or liquid fuel and can carry a person weighing at least 80 kilograms while flying at a speed of at least 50 kilometers per hour for a minimum of eight minutes. The Indian Army recently got a demonstration of the technology from the UK-based company, Gravity Industries, owned by ex-marine and innovator Richard Browning.
🔴British Firm #GravityIndustries gave a capability demonstration of its #Daedalus Flight Pack to the #IndianArmy in Agra. Indian Army aims to procure 48 jet packs.
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Quoting an Indian Army official, The EurAsian Times reported that the jet pack suits are coming as an aerial surveillance platform, and their effectiveness will vary depending on the terrain, wind factor, and vegetation. However, the army is also exploring the possibility of equipping soldiers with infrared goggles to scan through thick vegetation to identify enemy combatants.
The Indian Army’s requirements for the purchase specify that the equipment should be suitable for desert, marine, and mountain warfare. Military strategists are also considering the use of jet pack suits as another significant disruptor in the tactical battle space, similar to drone technology on the battlefield.
The technology can be used as a force multiplier to counter terrorists in urban and semi-urban settings. According to Gravity Industries, the military version of the jet suit is powered by five gas turbine engines that generate more than 1,000 horsepower and produce 144 kilograms of thrust, allowing vertical lift of up to 12,000 feet.
The Indian Navy’s marine commando (MARCOS) also sees potential in the jet pack suits as a mode of insertion, allowing soldiers to gain vantage points for reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, or placing a sniper. Additionally, the suits can be used for quick exhilaration.
The UK’s Royal Navy and the US Marine Corps already use these jet pack suits in various limited roles. The Indian Army’s interest in this innovative technology comes in the backdrop of skirmishes with the People’s Liberation Army along the Line of Actual Control between India and China.

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May 9, 2023
EU chiefs flew to UN climate talks in private jet

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The EU’s joint presidents flew to last year’s U.N. climate talks in Egypt aboard a private jet, according to data seen by POLITICO that revealed heavy use of private flights by European Council President Charles Michel.
The flight data, received through a freedom of information request, shows that Michel traveled on commercial planes on just 18 of the 112 missions undertaken between the beginning of his term in 2019 and December 2022.
He used chartered air taxis on some 72 trips, around 64 percent of the total, including to the COP27 talks in Egypt last November and to the COP26 summit in Glasgow in 2021. Michel invited Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the flight to Egypt.

The EU presidents’ choice of transportation to the climate talks highlights a long-standing dilemma for global leaders: how to practice what they preach on greenhouse gas emissions while also facing a demanding travel schedule that makes private aviation a tempting option — even a necessary evil.
When Michel, a former Belgian prime minister, arrived in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, he delivered a sober message to the gathered climate dignitaries: “We have a climatic gun to our head. We are living on borrowed time,” he said, before adding: “We are, and will remain, champions of climate action.”
According to the NGO Transport & Environment, a private jet can emit 2 tons of planet-cooking CO2 per hour. That means during the five-hour return flight to Sharm El-Sheikh, Michel and von der Leyen’s jet may have emitted roughly 20 tons of CO2 — the average EU citizen emits around 7 tons over the course of a year.
Most COP27 delegates — including the EU’s Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans, according to a Commission official — took commercial flights normally packed with sun-seeking tourists.
The decision to travel to Egypt by private jet was made after no commercial flights were available to return Michel to Brussels in time for duties at the European Parliament, his spokesperson Barend Leyts told POLITICO.
Staff also explored the option of flying aboard Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s plane, but it was scheduled to return before Michel’s work at COP27 would be completed.
Unlike many national governments, the EU does not own planes to transport its leaders. Hiring a private jet was “the only suitable option in the circumstances,” said Leyts. “Given that the president of the Commission was also invited to the COP27, we proposed to share a flight.”
Leyts stressed that the flight complied with internal Council rules, which dictate that officials should fly commercial when possible.
A spokesperson from the Commission confirmed that the famously hostile pair had shared the cabin to Sharm El-Sheikh, noting that reaching the destination by commercial flight was difficult due to the high volume of traffic and von der Leyen’s packed schedule.
“The fact that both presidents traveled together, with their teams, shows that they did what was possible to optimize the travel arrangements and reduce the associated carbon footprint,” added the Commission’s spokesperson.
The Commission previously told POLITICO that von der Leyen’s use of chartered trips is limited to “exceptional circumstances,” such as for security reasons or if a commercial flight isn’t available or doesn’t fit with diary commitments. The institution has previously declined POLITICO’s request to share detailed information on the modes of transportation used by the Commission chief for her foreign trips.
As part of its climate goals, the EU is looking to tighten its rules on staff travel to encourage greener modes of transport and bring down the institution’s emissions.
The Commission is aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 by switching to “sustainable business travel,” favoring greener travel options and encouraging employees to cycle, walk or take public transport to work.
Leyts said Michel’s staff enquired about the possibility of using sustainable aviation fuel, but were “regrettably” told that neither Brussels nor Sharm El-Sheikh airports had provision.
Since 2021, Michel has offset the emissions of his flights through a scheme that funds a Brazilian ceramics factory to switch its fuel from illegal timber to agricultural and industrial waste products, according to Leyts. Since 2022, that has applied to all of his flights.
Erika Di Benedetto contributed reporting.

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March 28, 2023
Watch: New Pentagon video shows Russian fighter jet striking U.S. drone

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U.S. operators were forced to ditch the uncrewed aircraft in the Black Sea after the propeller was struck. The U.S. said the Russian pilots were “reckless” and “unprofessional.” Russian officials denied responsibility for the crash, shifting blame to the drone’s pilots.
Despite the incident, the U.S. will continue conducting surveillance flights worldwide, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday.
“Make no mistake, the United States will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows,” Austin said at the start of a virtual meeting of nations supporting Ukraine against Russia. “It is incumbent upon Russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner.”
Austin singled out Moscow’s forces, calling the incident “a pattern of aggressive and risky, and unsafe actions by Russian pilots in international airspace.”
The defense secretary spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday about the incident, the first call between the two since October. During a Pentagon press briefing later in the day, he underscored the importance of communication to “help to prevent miscalculation going forward.”
“We know that the intercept was intentional. We know that the aggressive behavior was intentional,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at the briefing. However, it’s unclear whether the fighter jet’s collision with the drone was intentional, he added.
The drone sank 4,000 to 5,000 feet into the waters, Milley said, making it difficult for Russia to retrieve the technology if it intends to.
“It probably broke up. There’s probably not a lot to recover,” he said, emphasizing that the military took “mitigating measures” to ensure there’s no sensitive intelligence aboard the drone.

The collision set off a diplomatic row Tuesday as American officials scrambled to speak with their Russian counterparts and voice concerns to Moscow.
Following the crash, Anatoly Antonov, Moscow’s ambassador in Washington, met with officials at the State Department. In a statement, Antonov said he “categorically rejected all the insinuations” the U.S. has made regarding the Kremlin’s culpability, blaming the drone for “moving deliberately and provocatively towards the Russian territory.”
The collision marks the first time one of these aerial intercepts “resulted in a splashing of one of our drones,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters Tuesday. One Reaper drone costs about $14 million.
Nahal Toosi contributed to this report.
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March 16, 2023
US drone crashes into Black Sea after collision with Russian fighter jet

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A US drone has crashed into the Black Sea following a collision with a Russian fighter jet, heightening tensions between the two countries amid the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
According to the US military, the MQ-9 Reaper drone was on a routine mission in international airspace when it was intercepted by two Russian jets. The unmanned aircraft was hit by one of the Russian aircraft and crashed into the sea, resulting in a complete loss of the drone.
Russia has denied that the two planes made direct contact, instead blaming the incident on the drone’s “sharp manoeuvre”. The country’s defence ministry also claimed that the MQ-9 Reaper was flying with its transponders turned off, preventing it from being tracked by communications devices.
The US has summoned the Russian ambassador to Washington to protest against the incident, which occurred at approximately 07:03 Central European Time (06:03 GMT) on Tuesday. The collision followed several instances of the Su-27 fighter jets dumping fuel on the drone in an “unprofessional and environmentally unsound manner”, according to the US military.
While the US and UK have increased reconnaissance and surveillance flights over the Black Sea in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this incident marks a significant escalation. The key question is whether the collision was a deliberate attempt to bring down the drone or an attempt to disrupt its work.
US military commanders have warned that the incident could lead to miscalculation and unintended escalation, citing a “pattern of dangerous actions by Russian pilots” in the region. If the collision is found to have been a deliberate attack by Russia, it could be viewed as a provocation and test of the US response.
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has raised tensions between Russia and the West, with allies working to prevent a direct confrontation. However, this incident highlights the increasing risk of direct confrontation between the two countries. The US will now need to carefully evaluate its response to the incident.

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March 16, 2023
Iran unveils final prototype of indigenous jet trainer

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Tehran: Iran has unveiled the final prototype of a jet trainer that can help pilots learn tactics and techniques of air and air-to-surface combats, state media reported.
Dubbed Yasin, the aircraft can also be tasked with close air support, said Iranian Defence Minister Mohammadreza Ashtiani at a ceremony held to launch an aircraft assembly line in Tehran, according to official news agency IRNA.
Equipped with homegrown subsystems such as ejection seats, avionics, engines and landing gears, the final prototype is much upgraded and developed in tactical terms compared to the first one unveiled in October 2019, according to a report by semi-official Tasnim news agency.
A domestically-developed airborne weather radar has also been installed, said the report.
Ashtiani said the aircraft can accomplish a wide range of missions and will help significantly reduce the length of training, while improving its quality, Xinhua news agency reported.
TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – The unveiling ceremony of the production line of the first model of the Yasin training jet held on Saturday morning. The advanced training jet is 12 meters long, 4 meters high, weighs five and a half tons in operational take-off conditions; The maximum… https://t.co/W7lN6zX5gw pic.twitter.com/JxPKPSX4tS
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March 12, 2023
2 Ukrainian pilots are in U.S. to determine fighter jet skills

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“The program involves watching how Ukrainian pilots conduct their mission planning and execution in flight simulators in order to determine how we can better advise the Ukrainian Air Force,” the U.S. official said.
A Defense Department official and another person familiar with the program said the aim is to evaluate how long it will take Ukrainian pilots to learn to fly modern fighter aircraft, including F-16s. The program was supposed to begin late last year, but was delayed, the people said.
The pilots have been at the base for a week and will stay for at least one more week. A Defense Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The news, first reported by NBC News, comes as top Biden administration officials repeatedly bat down the idea of sending the jets anytime soon.
“F-16s are a question for a later time,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said during a recent interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And that’s why President Biden said that, for now, he’s not moving forward with those.”
Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s top policy official, told the House Armed Services Committee last week that the U.S. has not started training Ukrainians on F-16s, and that the timeline for delivering the aircraft is estimated at 18 months.
“Since we haven’t made the decision to provide F-16s and neither have our allies and partners, it doesn’t make sense to start to train them on a system they may never get,” Kahl said.
The decision to bring Ukrainian pilots over to the U.S. for an assessment does not change the thinking on whether to provide F-16s to Kyiv, the U.S. official said.

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March 6, 2023
US fighter jet shoots down unidentified, cylindrical object over Canada

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Washington:A US F-22 fighter jet has shot down an unidentified cylindrical object over Canada, a day after another similar object was downed near Alaskan waters and a week after the American military brought down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast.
The object was shot down on Saturday over Yukon territory in north-west Canada, according to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Pentagon said that the object was first observed in Alaska the night before, and military officials closely tracked it.
The decision to shoot down the object was taken following a phone call between US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, the White House said.
“I ordered the takedown of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled, and a US F-22 successfully fired at the object,” Trudeau said on Twitter.
The object was “cylindrical” and smaller than the suspected Chinese balloon shot down last weekend, Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand said.
Saturday’s incident follows the downing of another unidentified object on Friday over Alaska and the shooting down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4 by a US F-22 fighter jet.
According to Pentagon Press Secretary Brig Gen Pat Ryder, North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), detected the object over Alaska late on Friday evening.
The White House said the object was closely tracked and monitored by NORAD over the last 24 hours and the President has been continually briefed by his national security team since it was first spotted.

“Out of an abundance of caution and at the recommendation of their militaries, President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau authorised it to be taken down,” the White House said, adding that Biden authorised US fighter aircraft assigned to NORAD to conduct the operation and a US F-22 shot down the object in Canadian territory in close coordination with Canadian authorities.
“The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object to determine more details on its purpose or origin. President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau commended NORAD’s and US Northern Command’s strong and effective partnership and agreed to continue their close coordination to detect, track, and defend our airspace,” the White House said.
Following the Biden-Trudeau phone call, two F-22 aircraft from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, monitored the object over the US airspace with the assistance of Alaska Air National Guard refuelling aircraft, tracking it closely and taking time to characterise the nature of the object, Ryder said.
Monitoring continued Saturday as the object crossed into Canadian airspace, with Canadian CF-18 and CP-140 aircraft joining the formation to further assess the object.
“A US F-22 shot down the object in Canadian territory using an AIM 9X missile following close coordination between US and Canadian authorities, to include a call today between Secretary of Defence Lloyd J Austin III and Minister of Defence Anita Anand,” Ryder said.
“As Canadian authorities conduct recovery operations to help our countries learn more about the object, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be working closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,” he said.
Anand tweeted on Saturday that she had discussed the incident with US Defence Secretary Austin “and reaffirmed that we’ll always defend our sovereignty together.”
“The object was flying at an altitude of approximately 40,000 feet, had unlawfully entered Canadian airspace and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight. The object was shot down approximately 100 miles from the Canada-United States border over Canadian territory in central Yukon,” Anand said in a news conference.
“We will make sure that we leave no stone unturned in the analysis of the data,” Anand said.
Anand characterised the mission as the essence of how NORAD is supposed to work and said a decision was made to have Canadian and US planes in the air to ensure there were “sufficient assets” to ensure it could be taken down.
Gen Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, said specific instructions were given to the pilots of both countries operating under the command of a Canadian general that “whoever had the first best shot” would shoot first.
Last weekend, defence officials told US media that debris from the Chinese balloon landed in 47ft (14m) of water – shallower than they had expected – near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
China has denied the balloon – which first entered US airspace on 28 January – was used for spying purposes, saying it was a weather device gone astray.
The US, however, said the balloon is part of a fleet of surveillance balloons that have flown over five continents.
After the balloon incident, Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a planned trip to Beijing.
Chinese officials on Friday accused the US of “political manipulation and hype”.
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February 12, 2023
U.S. jet downs unidentified object over Canada

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“I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace,” Trudeau tweeted Saturday. “@NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object.”
“I spoke with President Biden this afternoon. Canadian Forces will now recover and analyze the wreckage of the object. Thank you to NORAD for keeping the watch over North America,” Trudeau added.
The latest incident comes a day after another F-22 downed an unidentified cylindrical object over Alaska airspace, which is currently being recovered by the U.S. military near the Alaskan town of Deadhorse.
The intercepts follow the cross-country saga earlier this month when a Chinese surveillance balloon overflew the U.S. from Montana to South Carolina, before it was downed over the Atlantic.
The U.S. Defense Department confirmed that NORAD detected the object over Alaska on Friday evening.
“As Canadian authorities conduct recovery operations to help learn more about the object, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be working closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,” Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement.
Canada’s Defense Minister Anita Anand said that she and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had discussed the incident. “We’ll always defend our sovereignty together,” Anand said in a tweet on Saturday.
“This was the first time that a NORAD operation has downed an aerial object,” Anand said in a press conference Saturday evening.

The object, the Canadian defense minister said, appeared to be a small cylindrical object, smaller than the one that was shot down off the coast of North Carolina last week. Flying at roughly 40,000 feet, the object posed a “reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” she said.
Anand said it was downed at 3:41 p.m. ET about 100 miles from the U.S.-Canada border in central Yukon. Both U.S. and Canadian aircrafts were involved in the operation. American F-22s were launched from the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage and Canadian F-18s from Cold Lake, Alberta. Canada’s Chief of the Defense Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre confirmed a AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, from the F-22, downed the object.
Anand did not confirm if the object is from China, saying it’s too early to determine where it came from.
Anand had met with Austin in Washington on Friday where the spy balloon shot down over the Carolinas was on the agenda. That balloon was primarily tracked and analyzed through NORAD, she told reporters during a morning briefing. “Last year, we announced the upgrade to our continental defense and NORAD, about C$40 billion [$30 billion],” she added. “This incident highlights the importance of that initiative.”
That upgrade focuses on improving NORAD’s ability to detect and track intrusions into North American airspace, Melissa Dalton, assistant secretary for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, told a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday.
“We’re taking steps with Canada to augment the existing North Warning System, including the development of a new system of sensors called Crossbow that will enhance NORAD ability to detect approaching airborne threats,” Dalton said.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) commended the U.S. Air Force personnel who shot down the unidentified object in Canadian airspace. Sullivan called for a redoubling of efforts “to recover, exploit and analyze the unidentified aircraft shot down over Alaska and Canada … to fully understand the nature of the threat we are facing right now,” in a tweet on Saturday.
The FAA announced late Saturday it had closed some airspace above Montana for Defense Department activities. The airspace was reopened a short time later. In a statement, NORAD said it had detected a “radar anomaly” and sent fighter jets to investigate. However, no object was identified that correlated to the radar hits, NORAD said.
Montana Sens. Steve Daines and John Tester both released statements saying they were in contact with Pentagon officials over the incident.
Asked why there were seemingly more balloon downings and related incidents recently, a U.S. official said: “We are being more vigilant now.”
Recoveries of the Chinese balloon in the Atlantic and the unidentified craft over Alaska are still ongoing. NORAD said in a Saturday statement that the work in the High North is being hampered by adverse weather conditions.
“Arctic weather conditions, including wind chill, snow, and limited daylight, are a factor in this operation, and personnel will adjust recovery operations to maintain safety,” the statement said. “Recovery activities are occurring on sea ice.”
White House and Pentagon officials still do not have a positive identification or country of origin of the object shot down over Alaska, and would not confirm that Friday’s incident was a Chinese-made surveillance balloon like the one that was struck off the coast of South Carolina.
Sue Allan, Lee Hudson, Joseph Gedeon, Zi-Ann Lum, Lara Seligman and Alex Ward contributed to this report.

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February 12, 2023
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February 4, 2023
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