A new intelligence report claims to have uncovered Chinese state-sponsored cyber attacks against military, diplomatic and economic targets across South-East Asia. Julian Turner talks to Rich Barger of ThreatConnect about Project CameraShy and the fight for supremacy in the South China Sea.

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In the run up to the UK’s ‘Brexit’ referendum, stories began to emerge of secret plans in Brussels for a single European army that were intended only to be made public after the polls had closed on 23rd June. It understandably did not play well amid the ‘outers’ and led a number of prominent, high-ranking former members of Her Majesty’s armed forces to urge a vote to leave.

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In this issue: Project CameraShy and Chinese cyber espionage, Nordic defence cooperation, lightweight vehicle armour, SpaceX challenges the United Launch Alliance, overhauling the UK’s Type 45 destroyers and more

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An update from Sikorsky reveals that the $1.2bn programme to replace the US Air Force's rapidly ageing HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters is progressing well. The contract signed in 2014 will see the delivery of HH-60W designed for critical combat search and rescue and personnel recovery operations for all US military services. Claire Apthorp caught up with the project to get a glimpse of the final product and find out what it can do.

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There is an oft-quoted Japanese saying that ‘business is war’ and now, after easing more than forty years of restrictions on foreign arms sales in 2014, it seems Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hoping that the materiel of war can also become business.

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Digital technologies are transforming old and inefficient ways of working and making businesses much more agile. Can they do the same in the defence sector, where success on deployments depends so much on the ability to make the right decision under pressure? A recent pilot of a ‘Smart HQ’ during April’s joint UK-France Griffin Strike military exercise would suggest that the answer is yes. BT’s director of defence Bill Holford tells us more.

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Firing at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US, killed nearly 50 people and injured at least 53, the US DoD lifts ban on transgender service members and the US Army awarded $1.7bn contract to Harris for tactical communication support. Army-technology.com wraps up key headlines from June.

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Untroubled for decades, the Nordic nations are increasingly seeing themselves as sitting on Europe’s new front-line. A challenge which can only be solved with steadfast cooperation.

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The issue of bullying, sexual violence and domestic violence in the armed forces has become an increasingly hot topic following a rise in reported incidents. Many nations are attempting to tackle the issue through education, using training programmes and strategies of violence prevention to reduce the numbers of people suffering abuse at the hands their peers or serving partners. But the road ahead is a challenging one, as Claire Apthorp finds out.

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Future war will be fought by robots - or at least that’s what we’ve been told. For decades huge amounts of military spending have gone into robotic development, from pack mules to drones and exoskeletons, but the reality is very few have gone into production and even made it into the field. Dr Gareth Evans finds out what’s holding military robots back.

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