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Search Recent News about any topic - How to

At times, you want to hunt for recent news about some topic but fail to discover how to do it. Google News is the option for you. But there are some things that you should do to get up-to-date news - most recent.

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Pakistani F-16s To Get Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite (AIDEWS)

Pakistan's F-16 fleet will get advanced technology of AIDEWS by Exelis. In its press release, Exelis said

Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has received official certification for its AN/ALQ-211(V)9 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System (AIDEWS) to fly on board Pakistani F 16 fighter aircraft. The AIDEWS pod is currently the only digital radio frequency memory-based electronic warfare (EW) pod certified to F-16 basic aircraft limits, including requirements for lightning protection.

The ALQ-211(V)9 is an external pod variant of the Exelis ALQ-211 family of electronic self-protection systems. After completing the U.S. Air Force SEEK EAGLE process for aircraft stores certification, the system is now cleared for deployment with F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft procured through the Peace Drive 2 Foreign Military Sales program. This certification can be readily extended to F-16 Blocks 25-52, both domestic and international.

To achieve certification, the Exelis team defined, flew and evaluated a series of compatibility flight profile (CFP) missions designed to clear the pod to the F-16’s basic limits. Two stores configurations were evaluated to capture current and future pod configuration requirements without the need for additional CFP missions. Conducted at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the successful tests were a collaborative effort with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, Texas, and the U.S. Air Force. 

The AIDEWS pod is a self-contained integrated electronic countermeasures and radar warning receiver system designed to protect the F-16 Fighting Falcon from radio frequency (RF) threats. The pod system offers the flexibility to be installed or removed based on mission requirements, while greatly enhancing pilots’ situational awareness. 

“The AIDEWS pod provides the U.S. and its allies with a modular, highly capable and cost-effective survivability system for a range of fighter aircraft,” said Joe Rambala, vice president and general manager of the Exelis integrated electronic warfare systems business. “Achieving this certification will give more pilots access to the system’s advanced RF protection and the flexibility to meet the evolving RF threat.”

SEEK EAGLE is the standard aircraft stores certification process for the U.S. Air Force. Through digital modeling, simulation and analysis, ground tests and flight tests, the process ensures that stores such as weapons, carriage and release equipment and external tanks and pods can fly safely on their respective platforms. The certification process includes verifying safe upload and download procedures, flight limits for safe carriage, employment, jettison and safe escape, and ballistic accuracy.  

The AIDEWS electronic self-protection system is produced at the Exelis facility in Clifton, New Jersey, and is part of a suite of EW technologies designed to enable domestic and international customers to perform their critical missions. Leveraging its decades of innovation and experience in the electromagnetic spectrum, Exelis has identified EW as one of the company’s four strategic growth platforms.

Some features of this system are :

DIGITAL RADAR WARNING RECEIVER (RWR)
> Channelized digital receiver
> High probability of intercept wideband receiver
> Operates in high density environments
> Situational awareness capability

DIGITAL RF MEMORY (DRFM) BASED JAMMER
> Lightweight, high performance
> Defeats pulse, pulse doppler and continuous wave threats
> Full frequency coverage

ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) CONTROL
> Interface to expendables
> Data recording
> On-board training
> Integrated with ALQ-213 to enhance on-board RWR for
   legacy aircraft
> Can operate as suite controller

Hammad Akbar , CEO of Mobile App Arrested

Hammad Akbar, a Pakistani national (From Lahore) was earlier arrested for creating/marketing a mobile application that monitors cellphone usage without informing the user about it. Application (Stealthgenie) runs on Blackberry, IPhone and Android based smartphones. Application was basically designed to monitor the activities of spouses (Cheating), children etc. But laws in the country don't allow such applications. This is what Govt quotes about his arrest

Akbar is accused of conspiracy, sale of a surreptitious interception device, advertisement of a known interception device, and advertising a device as a surreptitious interception device.

 Hammad Akbar profile can be found HERE

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator - Speech

I’m sorry
But I don't want to be an Emperor
That's not my business
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone
I should like to help everyone if possible
Jew, Gentile
Black man, White
We all want to help one another
Human beings are like that

We want to live by each other's happiness
Not by each other's misery
We don't want to hate and despise one another
In this world there’s room for everyone and the good earth is rich
And can provide for everyone

The way of life can be free and beautiful

But we have lost the way

Greed has poisoned men's souls
Has barricaded the world with hate
Has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want
Our knowledge has made us cynical
Our cleverness hard and unkind
We think too much, and feel too little
More than machinery, we need humanity
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness
Without these qualities life will be violent
And all will be lost

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men
Cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all
Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world
Millions of despairing men, women, and little children
Victims of a system that makes men torture
And imprison innocent people
To those who can hear me I say
“Do not despair”

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed
The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress
The hate of men will pass
And dictators die
And the power they took from the people
Will return to the people
And so long as men die
Liberty will never perish

Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you, enslave you
Who regiment your lives
Tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel
Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts
You are not machines
You are not cattle
You are men
You have the love of humanity in your hearts
You don't hate
Only the unloved hate
The unloved and the unnatural
Soldiers, don't fight for slavery
Fight for liberty

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written
“The kingdom of God is within man”
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men
In you, you the people

You the people have the power
The power to create machines
The power to create happiness
You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful
To make this life a wonderful adventure
Then in the name of democracy
Let us use that power
Let us all unite
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world
That will give men a chance to work
That will give youth a future
And old age a security

By the promise of these things brutes have risen to power
But they lie, they do not fulfill their promise
They never will
Dictators free themselves
But they enslave the people
Now let us fight to fulfill that promise
Let us fight to free the world
To do away with national barriers
Do away with greed
With hate and intolerance
Let us fight for a world of reason
A world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Look up! Look up!
The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through
We are coming out of the darkness into the light
We are coming into a new world
A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality
The soul of man has been given wings, and at last, he is beginning to fly
He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future
That glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us
Look up. Look up.