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Safety and security sector manufactures and sells weapons and military technology and equipment. It comprises government and commercial industry involved in research, development, production, and service of military material, equipment and facilities. Products include military aircraft, military vehicles, ships, electronic systems, and more. The arms industry also conducts significant research and development.

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Attacking Enemies With the Blink of an Eye

Thanks to a revolutionary new helmet, fighter pilots will be able to shoot down planes simply by looking at their enemies.

The Helmet Mounted Display (HMD), designed by BAE Systems for the Eurofighter Typhoon, has the ability to look at multiple targets, lock-on to them, and then prioritize them by voice-command. The pilot can even do this when looking at targets over the shoulder, or when an aircraft is directly underneath the Typhoon.

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Airbus Military is offering South Africa dual role aircraft

European aerospace company Airbus Military is offering South Africa dual role aircraft for the country´s Project Saucepan maritime surveillance aircraft programme. Saucepan is being accelerated because of the spread of Somali piracy to Southern African waters.

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SAWomEng@network will host its first set of workshops in November. Ideally geared at young graduates in the engineering industry, this year, they aim to tackle Ethical Leadership and the contribution engineers make to ethical leadership and decision making. For further details visit www.sawomeng.org.za

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Professor Thokozani Majozi

Thokozani Majozi is a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria with his main research interest being batch process integration. Read more about Prof Majozi’s world here or visit www.up.ac.za or www.saiche.co.za

 

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Today's fastest supercomputers will eventually be left in the (very) slow lane, computer engineers say. Future quantum computers, which work by manipulating atoms and molecules, will be millions of times faster than anything available today.