Patrick Meuter

The Indian Special Forces are elite military units specialising in unconventional warfare, and counter-terrorism operations involving high risk. The Special Forces include the Para Special Forces, the Garud Commandos, the National Security Guard, the Marine Commandos (MARCOS), and the Special Frontier Force, and are specially trained for a wide range of missions, including hostage rescue, sabotage, and intelligence gathering. They are highly skilled and crucial in jungle warfare, urban combat, and amphibious operations. With extremely rigorous selection processes and advanced training, they are equipped with highly sophisticated weaponry and operate in extreme conditions, facing diverse threats pushing through human endurance. Their extremely high success rate in domestic and international operations underscores their exceptional capability, discipline, and commitment to national security. The Geostrata acknowledges the impeccable contribution of these forces in upholding India's national security and interests. #indianarmy #specialforces #security #military #defense #strategy

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The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said.

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🚁 The #IndianArmy has unveiled the BAAZ Attack Drone, a state-of-the-art unmanned aerial system (UAS) designed for multi-weapon functionality. Equipped to deploy rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and small arms, it can also drop mortar bombs and explosives on designated targets. This next-gen UAV can carry an impressive payload of up to 80 kg in plains and approximately 50 kg in high-altitude areas. Testing at 14,000 ft, it demonstrates its rugged performance in extreme conditions.   🛡️ Built to revolutionize tactical operations, the #BAAZAttackDrone offers unparalleled versatility, greatly improving the Indian Army's operational edge. Its capabilities align with the Army’s vision for advanced drone technology, providing greater precision and efficiency in combat scenarios. With its Indigenous design, the BAAZ drone represents a significant milestone in India’s #MakeInIndia initiative, emphasizing homegrown defence innovations. ✊ The introduction of BAAZ reflects India’s growing focus on modernizing its military arsenal with drones designed to meet diverse challenges. This initiative not only boosts national security but also sets the stage for India’s leadership in advanced #UAV technologies. Source: https://t.ly/BI8eK #indianarmy #BAAZ #attackdrone #UAV #rocketlauncher #grenadelauncher #defencetechnology #MakeInIndia #militaryinnovation #dronetechnology #technicalastra #modernwarfare #dronenews

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Via Newsweek: China Warns Military 'Always Ready' After US Admiral Sounds Invasion Alarm Beijing said it is "always ready" after a U.S. military official warned that China is building up the capacity to invade Taiwan by 2027. "Taiwan is China's territory, and the Taiwan issue brooks no foreign interference," Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian said on Thursday. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command chief Admiral John Aquilino, while on a visit to Japan, told reporters on Tuesday that China is working toward being able to take Taiwan by 2027. His statement echoes that of CIA Director Bill Burns, who previously cited intelligence indicating Chinese President Xi Jinping had issued the timeline to the People's Liberation Army (PLA). However, that does not mean China will necessarily launch such an invasion. Aquilino added that he believes China will continue its rapid military buildup regardless of the economic woes the country is facing and could face: "Despite a failing economy, there is a conscious decision to fund military capability." The spokesperson added that there is no need to worry about a war across the Taiwan Strait as long as China's neighbor doesn't "engage in Taiwan independence." During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Beijing this week, when he met Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and Xi, Blinken "stressed the importance and stability across the Taiwan Strait," according to a State Department statement. Blinken also reiterated that Washington will continue to abide by its one-China policy. The U.S. has for decades observed the policy in which it acknowledges—but does not necessarily agree with—Beijing's claim that it represents Taiwan as well as China.

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What is the current status of the Indian nuclear arsenal? "India continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal, with at least four new weapon systems and several new delivery platforms under development to complement or replace existing nuclear-capable aircraft, land-based delivery systems, and sea-based systems. Several of these systems are nearing completion and will soon be fielded. We estimate that India may have produced enough military plutonium for 130 to 210 nuclear warheads but likely has produced only around 172, although the country’s warhead stockpile is likely growing." Read the latest Nuclear Notebook entry from Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, and Mackenzie Knight of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. https://lnkd.in/eVAWFYrn

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With the Arctic warming 4x faster than the global average, Arctic security is vital for Canada. Lockheed Martin Canada was honoured to attend the Montréal Climate Security Summit, where Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly spoke of recalibrating Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy. Other speakers from NATO nations highlighted the need to factor impacts of climate change into defence strategies. From food insecurity to wildfires and coastal flooding, climate impacts are felt worldwide. Let’s each recognize our role in addressing these challenges and act together for a more resilient future. #ClimateSecurity #Arctic #GlobalImpact

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In a bid to deter war over Taiwan, Admiral Paparo has dripped details into public view of his Hellscape plan to turn the waters east of China into a fiery death box for any armada seeking to attack Taiwan. Lethal UUVs (Uncrewed Undersea Vessels), loitering munitions, and one-way USVs (Uncrewed Surface Vessels) would flood the Taiwan Strait. In the Pentagon, Deputy Secretary Hicks has staked her legacy on Replicator. She knows INDOPACOM’s plan relies on drones that only her initiative can buy rapidly. But China’s Navy, not the United States’, can more easily use uncrewed maritime vessels to control the Taiwan Strait. Effectively, a Chinese Hellscape could be the perfect counter-counter blockade. #UUV #USV #INDOPACOM #replicator #China #DoD

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The Australian Government has unveiled its 2024 Australian Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Plan, which includes manufacturing missiles in Australia. Key capability investments set out in the 2024 Australian GWEO Plan include: - $850 million in partnership with Kongsberg Defence Australia to manufacture and maintain the Naval Strike Missile and the Joint Strike Missile from 2027 at a new facility to be built at Williamtown, near Newcastle; - $37.4 million in partnership with Lockheed Martin Australia to enable an initial batch of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) missiles to be manufactured in Australia from 2025; - $7 billion agreement with the United States to acquire the Standard Missile 2 Block IIIC (SM-2 IIIC) and Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) long-range missiles; $142 million for the accelerated acquisition of the Joint Strike Missile, to be delivered from 2025; - Up to $60 million over five years to develop hypersonic and long-range strike capabilities; and - $22 million over three years to seek options from industry to establish a manufacturing complex for the production of rocket motors in Australia. Site assessments for the new Australian facility are underway, with the facility to be operational by 2029. It will have the ability to manufacture a range of weapons and contribute production capacity to Australia's trusted partners in the region and beyond. “The 2024 Australian GWEO Plan will provide defence industry with the clarity and confidence it needs to help increase defence materiel resilience and sovereign capability,” said Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery, the Hon Pat Conroy MP. “Our industry partnerships are essential to uplift Australia’s stockpiles and resilience and meet increasing demands.” Image courtesy of Defence.

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Tiger Tracks: The Classic Panzer Memoir, by Wolfgang Faust "Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir was his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage. Depicting a running tank engagement lasting for three days, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of western Russia against the full might of the Red Army: the T34s, Stalin tanks, Sturmovik bombers and the feared Katyusha rocket brigades. His astonishing testimony reveals the merciless decisions that panzer crews made in action, the devastating power of their weaponry, and the many ways that men met their deaths in the snow and ice of the Ostfront. First published in the late 1940s as ‘Panzerdammerung’ (‘Panzer Twilight’), this memoir's savage realism shocked the post-war German public. Some readers were outraged at the book's final scenes, while others wrote that, ‘Now, at last, I know what our men did in the East.’ Today, it stands as one of the great semi-autobiographical accounts of warfare in World War 2: a crescendo of horror, grim survival and a fatalistic acceptance of the panzer man’s destiny." #PersonalDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment #Reading #TigerTracks #OneGuard #Guard387

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The Australian Army is turning to directed-energy weapons as one-way of embracing emerging technology to counter off-the-shelf small multi-rotor uncrewed aerial vehicles. Recently at the Army’s At a Puckapunyal range in Victoria, AIM Defence nstrated its Fractl Portable High Energy Laser which is powerful enough to burn through steel and can track objects as small as a 10-cent piece travelling 100kmph a kilometre away. The laser is ‘silent, virtually motionless and soldiers can be taught to use it in minutes’, according to an article published by the Army. At the Puckapunyal demonstration, the team ‘hard killed’ a drone at 500m with a deployable prototype. Co-founder Jessica Glenn said: “It paints a pathway toward getting this novel wavelength to match similar ranges as our one-micron system, which is achieving 1.5km counter sensor and approximately 1km hard kill engagements.” #manufacturing #australianmanufacturing #defence #defenceindustry #antidrone #lasers

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VENN DIAGRAMS ARE PURE EVIL From 1976 to 1983 was ruled by a military junta. They did not want people coming together as people coming and working together would be a threat to them.  Therefore they would ban anything that represented or symbolised that. That included the Venn diagram.  To them the Venn diagram symbolised unity.  It was banned from schools, and textbooks. I’ve worked in companies that talked a good game about everyone being  together, pulling together, doing things together, being united all for the greater good of the company and clients. But, in practice it was every person for themselves. To the detriment of the client.  Still, so many companies who can’t abide each other extoll the fact they are all best friends. And some actually are.  One company I ran everyone worked for each other. All I had to do was fan the embers that were already there and people just ran with it. It was brilliant.  Are clients any better? I’ve been in meetings where clients are more UFC than unified. The infighting was brutal.  Then there is something else. Agencies want to be equal partners with brands. They want a seat at the top table. Bringing their unified experience and knowledge to bare.  But they rarely are.  Why? Clients can smell if an agency is fragmented. Who wants to work with something broken?  You could say ‘so what if no one is joined up’? But, there are huge advantages. Working in a unified way creates unified thinking. Things move faster. More things happen. Egos are parked. It is more fun. More respectful. Less political. How to do it? - Start internally. Don’t just talk it, make it part of the DNA. This radiates outwards. True for agencies as it is for clients. - It starts at the top. Everyone from the CEO down has to believe and act it.  - Trust. The client and agency must trust each other. - Empower people. Do that and most of the time they will fly.  - Believe in each other. It’s time for brands and agencies to be more like a Venn diagram and less like a military junta. All of Us Group #venn #unity #brandunity #fragmentation

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Admiral Naveed Ashraf, Pakistan's Naval Chief, has revealed plans for the country's first indigenously designed frigate, the Jinnah-Class Frigate. This advanced warship aims to address challenges in the multi-threat maritime environment while enhancing Pakistan’s naval capabilities. Frigate-sized warships, typically 100-150 meters long and weighing 2,000-4,000 tons, are built for multi-mission roles such as surface warfare, anti-submarine operations, and air defense. Pakistan's Navy has recently expanded its fleet with state-of-the-art vessels like PNS Babur and PNS Hunain, reflecting a broader strategy to strengthen maritime security and operational readiness. Admiral Ashraf highlighted the Navy's commitment to acquiring cutting-edge platforms and leveraging force multipliers to bolster naval defense. #PakistanNavy #JinnahClassFrigate #NavalInnovation #MaritimeSecurity #IndigenousTechnology #NavalDefense

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