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Featuring the world's most sophisticated tracked self-propelled howitzer (SPH) from Germany. In service with the Bundeswher and a handful of European armies, with potential market demand for most Western/NATO or non-aligned nations that are currently looking to replace their ageing M109-based artillery systems.

Amongst the pioneers in applying fibre-optic technology to missile sensor/guidance systems, the Javelin anti-tank guided missile system ranks together with RAFAEL's SPIKE from Israel. Bringing to effective reality the term "One-Man-Tank-Killer" first coined for the Dragon ATGM (though it was fraught with much weaknesses)

Featuring the AT4 CS and AST - two new munitions offered by Sweden's BOFORS in its AT4 portable, disposable rocket launcher family. The Confined Space and Anti-Structure, Tandem warheads provide new capabilities to AT4 users around the world with special applications to urban battlefield requirements.

The Shoulder-launched Multi-purpose Assault Weapon has been in service with the US Marines since the late 1990s. Based on the Israeli B-300 rocket, it is similar in concept and operation to the Carl Gustav 84 mm recoiless rifle, in this case with a calibre of 83 mm. The Novel Explosive (NE) munition featured here is a recently developed ammunition option for use with SMAW, with specific application to urban environments for anti-structure work. It renders an enhanced blast warhead effect in order to neutralise walled-in personnel protected by concrete structures, and in the same process demolishing such structures effectively.

Heckler & Koch's recently developed MP7 Personal Defence Weapon (PDW) that improves the stopping power of the ubiquitous MP5 submachinegun to the order equivalent to that of full-length high-powered assault rifles, without compromisng on compactness. This is expected to be the de facto replacement for all existing MP5 situational requirements.

Novel explosive room-entry technique that harnesses shaped-charge technology, with the simple use of water as the medium of employment. The primary utility with the Gatecrasher is that it affords the hostage-rescue operator an option to exercise the prerogative of the time and place of entry, apart from doors, with maximum shock and awe, giving terrorists with little or no warning to be able to react effectively to the assaulting elements.

This is the latest incarnation of the US Army Tactical Missile System, a guided surface-to-surface artillery rocket system that exceeds the range of the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) by four times (in excess of 200 km). This latest version incorporates modifications to the flight dynamics and rocket trajectory, as well as enhanced target accuracy for application in urban warfare environments, allowing the rocket to achieve a precision strike by impacting its target in a near-vertical angle of attack, thus minimising collateral damage. This new system capability provides an added dimension to the options available to soldiers and commanders in the field in the engagement of high-value, time-sensitive targets that are surrounded by clutter such as civilian personnel and structures.

The Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or affectionately, 'Mother Of All Bombs', is the largest and heaviest aerial bomb in history. Able to deliver destruction equivalent to the order of a small nuclear explosion (up to nine city blocks !), without the risk of radioactive fallout. A true psychological weapon. It was known that when its test demonstration video was first released to the public in 2003, the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein surrendered three days after, concluding Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The SFW is a lethality enhanced cluster bomb munition - it delivers self-guiding bomblets that seek out stationary and moving targets, typically an enemy armour convoy formation in open terrain. Its one, single use in battle against Iraqi armour has lent enough credence to it as a psychological weapon itself, striking well-deserved fear into the hearts and ranks of the enemy - two of these SFWs were able to take out an entire Iraqi mechanised battalion in one single pass !

Featuring the rapid-firing Auto Assault 12 gauge automatic combat shotgun and the versatile application of mounting it in a twin-gun remote-controlled weapon station onboard the Grizzly armoured personnel carrier. The AA-12 revolutionises the genre of the shotgun in that it rewrites the the full spectrum lethality capabilities - being able to empty an entire magazine of twenty 12-gauge shotgun shells in under 5-8 secs, and the ability to launch miniature 12-gauge grenade munitions !

Modernised Bangalore Torpedo, designed to deal with concertina wire obstacles in particular, but with improved useful application against other battlefield threats, with special operations roles in mind.

Incorporating proven track record of reliability, Heckler & Koch does a re-engineering of the famous and popular M4/M16 assault rifle. This is a feature presentation of the hardware demonstration testing.

Designed to replace the US Marines Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV), the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle takes the step further by seamlessly incorporating the sea-keeping qualities of a high-speed jet-ski into the confines of a land-based armoured fighting vehicle. The result: A transformer weapon system in its own right, being able to transit from high-speed assault boat to infantry fighting vehicle in a matter of seconds. A notable evolution in amphibuous assault vehicle technology.

This article came up in the 'Voices' section of today's (4 July 2007) edition of the Today Paper, on page 18: NECESSARY CHANGES OR JUST LESSONS IN FRIVOLITY? by Ho Kong Loon I FAIL to appreciate why some school heads love to mark their tenure with issues that border on the mundane or selfserving.   I am talking about their propensity for changing the school badge, the school uniform and even the school song. Making changes to these items baffles me.  There are actually no educational, social, inter-personal or behavioural benefits accruing from such moves. Spare a thought for the kids whose parents are already struggling to feed, clothe and house the family. With a stroke of the pen, decisions are made that would unravel the extremely tight budgeting which characterises the poor.  Buying two sets of the new school uniform effectively renders the hand-me-downs useless.  This is needless expenditure.  Redesigning a school badge using different artistic for...

Latest generation of cannon launched guided projectile technology to be employed by 155mm tube artillery systems. This, in reality, gives tube artillery the precision strike capability in the order of cruise missile technology - being able to take out a target from about 30-40 km away, and neutralising it within a 5-m radius with a single shell. This deadly new capability provides the artillery formation with true transformational capabilities, when in the past it required an entire artillery battery or even battalion of gun tubes to rain down enough shells to take out their targets.

Featuring the large-calibre, long-range (in excess of 1,500 m) sniper rifle of choice in service with US military. Originally intended as an anti-material weapon to provide explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams with a stand-off capability in neutralising unexploded ordnance, increasingly the Barrett is gaining notoriety as an anti-personnel weapon for friendly troops against highly lethal urban threats like walled-in, well-protected enemy sniper, heavy machinegun and anti-armour (mostly RPG) elements. The known records of the lethal effects on live targets, as recounted by captured enemy combatants after having witnessed their fellow comrades being decimated (literally shredded) before their eyes, lends to the shock and awe that reigns and rings home among the enemy ranks. This weapon is to be feared and respected without question - truly a morale booster among friendly troops, and a key towards demotivating the enemy in carrying on their fight.

Featuring the Objective Crew Served Weapon (OCSW) system, aimed as a replacement for the aging M2 0.5" calibre heavy machinegun and Mk 19 40mm grenade machinegun (automatic grenade launcher). Incorporating modern high-strength, weight-saving materials, advanced optics and fire-control technology for programing of fuze timers for new 25mm air-bursting munitions, this system bears high potential for widespread applications and installation options.

Featuring the Cougar Mine Protected Vehicle (MPV), undergoing operational test and evaluation by US, UK and Canadian army units on deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Includes special report on the projected mass deployment of the new Common Remotely Operated Weapon System (CROWS) onboard the Cougar, Humvee, Abrams and many other vehicles fielded by US military in high-threat urban environments in which troops are constantly facing lethal hidden dangers like snipers in high-rise buildings and roadside bombs, otherwise called Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)

An innovative approach to marry small arms weapons onto an existing unarmed, compact, mobile remotely-operated platform to perform tasks of overwatch in high-threat environments such as urban terrain, and especially useful for seeking and neutralising hidden enemy snipers in such settings. SWORDS is a realisation of the weaponisation of the TALON unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) primarily employed for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions.

A versatile multi-role weapon system originally developed as a mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system employing the Starstreak hyper-velocity missile (HVM). The unique feature of THOR is its secondary attack capability against surface targets, lending the exceptionally high speed of the Starstreak (above Mach 3) towards effective defeat of land-based armoured targets by virtue of the kinetic energy afforded by the missile's three terminally guided armour-piercing darts. Most recently developed, THOR's surface attack capability is being much sought after in the urban battlefield, which is becoming the predominant frontline situation encountered by armies around the world today