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08 Mar 24. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) – along with its Defence industry partners MBDA, Leonardo and Qinetiq – is publishing ‘never seen before’ declassified footage of the DragonFire Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) system, in action over the skies of the Hebrides.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/akei6xedspvxu8trpnqs8/h?rlkey=wkdya1uh2mzmds3p665o7k5j5&dl=0
The UK’s LDEW capability is advanced and progressing well towards boosting our future Armed Forces capabilities.
DragonFire could offer UK Defence significant operational advantage by delivering enhanced air defence capabilities to the frontline, while reducing expendable ammunition costs and reducing risks of collateral damage.
This joint endeavour by Dstl and industry is another example of UK Defence spearheading future technology that can make our Armed Forces more effective and agile.
The file link contains declassified footage captured at DragonFire’s most recent trial in Scotland and shows operation of DragonFire from inside the control room to impressive footage of DragonFire targeting and firing on undisclosed targets.
Included is an animated video showing a sample scenario of DragonFire’s possible use in a maritime environment.
The DragonFire Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) system has proven itself in testing and has the very real potential for it to transform the UK’s Defence capability.
Demonstrating the potential of LDEW, DragonFire can provide a credible sovereign UK capability to meet the UK defence needs. LDEW offers a number of significant benefits, including reduced logistic, cost burden and collateral damage in operations.
The ecosystem of science and technology required to develop DragonFire would not be possible without the world-leading expertise of MBDA, QinetiQ, and Leonardo, and the ‘best of UK industry’ partnership they have created.
Through the UK DragonFire programme, Dstl, MBDA, QinetiQ, and Leonardo are providing a significant step change in UK’s capability in High Energy Laser Weapon Systems. The programme has developed and matured the key technologies needed.
It should not be underestimated the challenges that need to be overcome to be able to put many kW’s of energy onto a target with millimetric precision, over distances measure in kilometres. The expertise in the UK, distributed across government, industry and academia, has helped achieve this.
DragonFire is demonstrating the ‘art of the possible’ and focus is now increasingly on how to use the technology, rather than just its development, with the goal of understanding how LDEW can be used both safely and effectively.
Animation explainer:
A fictitious carrier group consisting of various Royal Navy Ships including a Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier and a Type 26 frigate fitted with integrated DragonFire systems (port and starboard) and demonstrating a potential layered defence scenario against three threat types.
The carrier group detects a set of incoming threats via radar (generically: air search mode and marine search mode).
Initially four sub-sonic uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) targets are detected, quickly followed by a super-sonic fast jet target via radar air search. In radar marine (small) target search, a close-in target is picked up (FIAC – Fast Incoming Attack Craft).
*Note: This is a hypothetical scenario only. Before engaging any threat, a series of steps are undertaken to establish the nature of the threat and the appropriate response before deciding to engage.
Animation sequence:
Scene opens up on the carrier group, moves over to the Type 26 escort and shows it’s forward missile area, masthead mounted radar antennas and then down to where the DragonFire has been situated next to a Close-in System (Phalanx).
Moves to radar display (marine search) showing one close-in potential threat. This is then designated as a target.
Moves back to radar air search and marks the fast moving airborne threat as a target.
The shipborne weapon systems initiates its layered defence and launches a Surface-to-Air missile to intercept the fast moving airborne target, i.e. the fast jet, while initiating DragonFire to engage the marine target.
Sequence moves to showing the missile launch.
Sequence moves to showing DragonFire slew round, lock on target and energise.
FIAC propulsion targeted is disabled by DragonFire.
Sequence returns to the in air missile and the interception of the fast jet.
Operator then designates the four remaining tracked threats on the radar air map, prioritising the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) asset then the three strike-UAVs. Combat Management System directs DragonFire to engage.
Scene moves again to showing DragonFire energising and then moves to show a precision strike on the outlying UAV’s ISR sensor turret and disabling, causing the platform to disengage and turn away.
DF engages second UAV and its weapons package causing it to explode. Third UAV engaged by DF targeting its control surfaces and causing the UAV to lose control and plummet to the sea. Fourth UAV is then seen to disengage and turn away from the carrier group, most likely due to the loss of ISR cap
08 Mar 24. Lockheed Martin’s ER GMLRS rockets double range in test fire.
The next-generation munitions achieve results at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Lockheed Martin‘s Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) rockets have demonstrated effectiveness in a recent test, doubling their range and showcasing their enhanced capabilities.
In a leap forward for US military technology, the US Army successfully tested Lockheed Martin’s Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The demonstration, which saw two ER GMLRS rockets fired from the US Army’s HIMARS launcher, surpassed expectations by doubling the range while maintaining accuracy and flight trajectory.
The achievement marks a milestone in developing next-generation munitions, with the ER GMLRS rockets showcasing their ability to engage targets over extended distances precisely. Jay Price, vice president for Precision Fires at Lockheed Martin, emphasised the significance of the test results, stating: “The Army’s success in this operational test further demonstrates the readiness of ER GMLRS and overall capability of our family of munitions.”
Last year, the US Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.79bn contract for producing two full-rate production lots of GMLRS rockets and associated equipment.
Beyond the test’s immediate success, the operational demonstration moves ER GMLRS closer to deployment and mass production. With plans to manufacture the rockets at Lockheed Martin’s Precision Fires Center of Excellence in Camden, Arkansas, the company is poised to meet the increasing demand for advanced munitions systems.
Lockheed Martin’s commitment to munitions production is evident in its track record, having produced over 70,000 GMLRS rounds. Under annual contracts, the company continues to provide integrated logistics support for the US Army, US Marine Corps, and international customers, ensuring these systems’ continued availability and reliability.
Australia announced plans to commence production of GMLRS munitions in 2025. Under an A$37.4m contract with Lockheed Martin Australia, the country will produce its first batch of GMLRS missiles.
As geopolitical tensions persist and military requirements evolve, the successful test of Lockheed Martin’s ER GMLRS rockets signals an advancement in military capability. It provides defence forces with enhanced range options and precision engagement capabilities. With continued investment in research and development, Lockheed Martin bolsters national security and global stability.
(Source: army-technology.com)
08 Mar 24. South Korea enhances KDX-III with Subsonic Sea-Skimming aerial targets. The US State Department has approved a $170.6m sale to boost the South Korean Navy’s KDX-III Batch-II AEGIS class destroyers.
The Republic of Korea has secured approval from the US State Department for the acquisition of Subsonic Sea-Skimming Aerial Targets (SSAT) for its KDX-III Batch-II AEGIS destroyers. The $170.6m sale, comprising five BQM-177A SSATs alongside other logistical and programme support elements, is indicative of South Korea’s commitment to advancing its naval defence capabilities, with the target drones used to improve proficiency in surface-to-air target prosecution.
According to GlobalData’s South Korea defence market intelligence, South Korea plans to develop a blue-water naval force capable of projecting naval power over long distances and is in the process of inducting new KDX-III AEGIS-equipped destroyers.
While the primary focus of the sale is to facilitate Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) for the new KDX-III Batch-II AEGIS destroyers, the acquisition also reflects the Republic of Korea’s ambitions to stay ahead of evolving security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.
By enhancing its anti-air warfare capabilities, South Korea aims to reinforce its position as a key US regional ally, promoting political stability and economic progress, read a 7 March statement from the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
The proposed sale will see US defence contractors such as Kratos Defense and Northrop Grumman contribute to the acquisition programme.
The Republic of Korean Navy achieved a milestone in 2012 by completing combat system ship qualification trials (CSSQT) aboard the second Sejong the Great-class ship, Yulgok Yi I. The trials validated the AEGIS combat system’s capability through anti-air multi-mission warfare exercises, electronic attack scenarios, and live air defence engagements.
Commissioned in August 2010, Yulgok Yi I is part of the Korean Destroyer experimental (KDX-III) programme. (Source: naval-technology.com)
05 Mar 24. Thales completes factory acceptance tests for Type 31 frigate mission system. Thales has successfully completed factory acceptance tests (FATs) for the first Type 31 mission system, the company announced on 28 February.
UK shipbuilder Babcock, leading the ‘Team 31′ consortium, is delivering five Type 31 Inspiration-class general-purpose frigates based on the Arrowhead 140 design for the Royal Navy (RN) under a GBP1.25 bn (USD1.59 bn) contract awarded in November 2019.
Thales, as part of Team 31, is responsible for the delivery and integration of the full Type 31 mission system, which comprises the combat system, integrated communications system (ICS), and integrated bridge and navigation system (IBNS).
Thales said that completing delivery of the three main system-level FATs was a major target for the RN’s new Type 31 frigate during 2023.
The FAT for the ICS, which is being delivered by Thales SIX in Crawley, in the UK, was completed in September 2023.
(Source: Janes)
06 Mar 24. USN Builds New Air Launched MACE Mini-Anti Ship Missile.
Pentagon has announced its need for a rapid prototype of a new, small air-launched, anti-surface vessel cruise missile
The Pentagon has announced its need for a rapid prototype of a new, small air-launched, anti-surface vessel (anti-ship; A-ShM) cruise missile, capable of being launched from an F/A-18E/F “Super Hornet” or the F-35A/C Lightning fighter aircraft — respectively, the present and future backbone of the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier-based air-wing.
The Multi-Mission Affordable Capacity Effector (MACE) armament is intended to provide aircraft carrier air-wings with enhanced anti-ship strike capacity at stand-off distance, thereby avoiding placing pilots and their aircraft in immediate danger, due to the enhanced anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities of the Chinese People’s Liberation Navy within the Indo-Pacific.
Additionally, this missile is designed to be able to quickly enter mass-production, and to affordably procured by the U.S. Navy. Thus, this missile platform is a paragon of the principles expressed in President Biden’s ground-breaking National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS), which proclaims the Department of Defense’s intent to unburden the United States’ flagging defense industrial base by increasing the utilization of off-the-shelf weapons platforms to fill critical defense needs — rather than asking defense companies to commit to a risky decade-long development process for new, cutting-edge, and superfluous weapons systems.
The Pentagon has asked the industrial sector to plan for the missile to cost no more than $300,000 per round, and to be capable of producing the new munition at a rate of at least 500 rounds annually. More importantly, the U.S. Navy Air Systems command wants the MACE armament to be fully-fieldable and in mass-production by 2027, at the latest — the year by which many Western intelligence analysts expect China to invade Taiwan.
By comparison, the next-generation, long-range, Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive, anti-surface vessel, cruise missile (HALO) presently under development by Lockheed Martin and RTX (formerly, Raytheon), is not expected to be fielded until well into the 2030s. Additionally, this missile is predicted to have a per-unit cost of over $40-m (similar to other Hypersonic Missile projects within other service branches), throughout a production run of only 300 missiles — after the Pentagon has already invested $400-m in its development of the missile platform. The primary benefit of the HALO missile platform is that it is designed to be launched from an aircraft carrier, an incredibly advantageous capability for war within the Indo-Pacific, a region in which the United States has a severe dearth of land-basing opportunities. More importantly, this missile is almost certainly a highly-sophisticated response to the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s frequent posturing with its DF-26 “carrier killing” hypersonic ballistic missile — which many scholars have concluded is over-hyped and largely ineffectual. (Source: Google/Warrior Maven)
05 Mar 24. Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, and Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) have signed a collaboration agreement to offer capabilities across the Land domain, with an initial focus on mortar systems. This agreement brings together the companies’ skills, technology, products and integrated solutions to deliver benefits for our customers in the defence sector.
Babcock will work with ST Engineering to pursue defence opportunities in markets of joint interest, combining the benefits of Babcock’s long-standing systems integration experience and close working relationship with the British Armed Forces, with ST Engineering’s world-leading Land Systems products.
Chris Spicer, Managing Director of Engineering & Systems Integration at Babcock’s Land business said:
“This announcement formalises an exciting relationship with ST Engineering, ensuring ST’s unique Land Systems capabilities are embedded in the UK in order to serve our customers’ emerging and complex needs. By partnering, our organisations can offer complementary skills, technologies and truly transformative solutions to enhance the delivery of our customers’ critical and complex missions.”
Tan Pek Tong, Head of International Business, Land Systems at ST Engineering, added:
“We are pleased to partner Babcock in exploring opportunities in the UK and other markets. We believe the synergistic capabilities offered by ST Engineering and Babcock can offer compelling operational requirements to deliver mission critical outcomes for our customers.”
04 Mar 24. Saab Starts Construction of New Carl-Gustaf Factory in India. Saab has today marked the start of the construction of its new Carl-Gustaf® manufacturing facility in India with a ground breaking ceremony. The factory will be located in the state of Haryana.
After receiving approval of 100% foreign direct investment, Saab has established a new company, Saab FFVO India Pvt Ltd, which will fully own the new manufacturing facility and produce the Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon.
“I am proud to start constructing our first facility outside Sweden for Carl-Gustaf, a product that has a long history with the Indian Armed Forces. We look forward to starting production of our excellent product, now engineered and made in India”, says Görgen Johansson, Senior Vice President and Head of Saab’s business area Dynamics.
“Today is an important milestone for Sweden and India. Saab’s factory will be the first foreign fully-owned defence production facility in India. It is a testament to the strong bilateral relationship between our countries,” says Håkan Jevrell, State Secretary for Foreign Trade, Sweden.
The facility is being built in the state of Haryana at the MET City at Jhajjar. The state has a strong industrial base of good potential partners and skilled employees.
Saab will partner with Indian suppliers and will fully meet the requirements of “Make in India” for the systems manufactured in the facility. At the new factory, Saab will deploy complex technologies including the latest sighting technology and advanced carbon fibre winding to manufacture Carl-Gustaf M4 for the Indian armed forces, and components which may be included in other users’ systems.
The Carl-Gustaf system has been in service with the Indian Army since 1976 and is established as the main shoulder launched weapon in the Indian Armed Forces. (Source: ASD Network)
04 Mar 24. A Moment of Truth for the US Army’s Chief Laser Weapon. After nearly a decade in development, the Army’s primary vehicle-mounted laser weapon is on a collision course with its most fearsome foe yet — dust.
The service has deployed four Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense, or DE M-SHORAD, prototypes — Stryker infantry carrier vehicles outfitted with 50-kilowatt laser weapons systems — to the Middle East for “real world testing” in an overseas operational environment, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus recently told Breaking Defense.
The four prototypes reportedly arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of operations in early February, with the Army undertaking “initial testing activities” on the path to a future live-fire demonstration, according to Breaking Defense.
While the DE M-SHORAD system has already undergone testing at U.S. military facilities like the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Central Command offers the potential for testing amid real-world challenges like dust storms and other atmospheric phenomena that, according to the Congressional Research Service, could render any directed-energy weapon essentially ineffective.
“Substances in the atmosphere — particularly water vapor, but also sand, dust, salt particles, smoke, and other air pollution — absorb and scatter light, and atmospheric turbulence can defocus a laser beam,” according to the 2023 CRS report on the Defense Department’s directed-energy weapons program.
Shipborne lasers like the 60-kilowatt High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, weapon system tested aboard Navy destroyers in recent years can “markedly” reduce the impact of atmospheric water vapor on laser performance by emitting radiation only at “sweet spots” in the electromagnetic spectrum, per the CRS report.
But other phenomena such as dust storms don’t have as convenient a solution, a problem captured in Mingus’ comments to Breaking Defense.
“Our high-energy lasers are so susceptible to weather,” Mingus said. “That’s why I think this is going to be a great laboratory, because anytime there’s a dust storm, anytime there’s that kind of thing, it starts to alter the physics of the light particles that actually shoot that beam.”
This is not the first time the Army has tested a laser weapon system in an unpredictable operational environment. In August, Maj. Gen. Sean Gainey, director of the service’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, revealed that the Army had sent several 10-kilowatt laser systems to the U.S. Central Command, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command areas of responsibility for “operational assessments.”
But the deployment of the 50-kilowatt DE M-SHORAD system represents a major testing milestone for a system that, in development since at least 2015, could offer a major leap forward for the Army’s air defense systems at a time when the rising tide of adversary drones necessitates a surge in new capabilities.
Laser weapons have been a pillar of the DoD’s revamped short-range air defense strategy since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the resulting pivot toward “great power competition” with conventional adversary states like Russia and China.
With near limitless magazines and superior precision to standard kinetic weapons, lasers offer a low-cost way to consistently defeat incoming rockets, artillery and mortar fire, drones and even rotary-wing aircraft. Overall, the DoD spends $1 bn annually developing directed-energy capabilities, according to a 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office.
The need for effective laser weapons has taken on new urgency amid both increased drone and missile attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria and the rise of Houthi missile attacks on commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea. The latter has led to a call for increased fielding of shipboard laser weapons among Navy commanders whose warships are increasingly forced to fend off incoming airborne threats.
The technological descendent of the Army’s Stryker-mounted 5-kilowatt Mobile Experimental High Energy Laser, or MEHEL, and 50-kilowatt Multi-Mission High Energy Laser, or MMHEL — dubbed “Guardian” — the DE M-SHORAD laser system became a program of record for the service in 2019. As part of its fiscal 2024 budget request, the Army proposed about $111 m in research and development funding for the laser system and vehicle package, according to service budget documents, down from $197 m the previous year largely due to the completion of a first set of four prototypes.
The Army’s 4th Battalion, 60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, took delivery of the first platoon of four DE M-SHORAD prototypes in September 2023.
“The delivery of DE M-SHORAD prototypes to the 4-60th ADAR represents a transformational milestone in the Army’s modernization campaign. It is an achievement that adds what was often thought of as a next-generation capability, now,” Col. Steven Gutierrez, DR-MSHORAD program manager, said in a statement at the time. “These high-energy laser systems will be a game-changer on the contemporary battlefield, a critical component of an integrated, layered, and in-depth air missile defense for division and brigade maneuver formations.”
The DE M-SHOARD isn’t the only laser weapon in the Army’s air defense arsenal: The service recently inked a contract with defense giant Lockheed Martin to furnish soldiers with the Valkyrie 300-kilowatt laser weapon which, loaded onto a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, will purportedly provide significant defense against the same family of missile and drone threats that its 50-kilowatt cousin is designed to defeat, as well as other hardened threats like incoming cruise missiles.
After such an investment of time and money in its development, the DE M-SHORAD’s nascent laser platoon and the urgent need among commanders downrange are set to intersect during the upcoming operational tests in the Central Command area of responsibility, tests which will likely help define the limitations of the systems that prevent lasers from serving as an “all-weather solution” to incoming drones and missiles in regions such as the Middle East.
“It’s a prototype, but we want to experiment in a live environment,” Mingus told Breaking Defense. “Is it 100% ready? Is it going to work perfectly? Probably not, but we’re going to learn from it.”
(Source: Military.com)
29 Feb 24. Nexter, part of KNDS, qualifies the new SHARD 120mm APFSDS (Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilised Discarding Sabot) tank ammunition.
Nexter qualifies the new SHARD 120mm APFSDS tank ammunition.
- Nexter, company of KNDS achieved late 2023 the qualification of its new generation 120mm APFSDS ammunition SHARD.
- SHARD is the solution for all NATO 120mm tanks to defeat modern MBT and future threats thanks to increased firepower (+15% penetration).
- This unprecedented performance is the result of an innovative design that offers excellent accuracy and reduces barrel wear by 25% at the same time.
Leclerc MBT [Nexter press release image]
A leap-ahead in performance: SHARD was designed by KNDS to bring 120mm APFSDS tungsten alloy ammunition to the next level of performance against all modern MBT and armoured threats in the present and future battlefields. Its capacities are unprecedented for this kind of ammunition:
- Penetration is increased by 15% while ensuring a low level of dispersion.
- Barrel wear is reduced by 25% reducing maintenance cycles and costs.
- A muzzle velocity of 1720 m/s with the Leclerc L52 gun and 1734 m/s with the Leopard 2 L55 gun
Our historical know-how in the design of state-of-the-art tank ammunition was gathered to make SHARD with:
- A numerically optimised design and a lighter aluminium sabot.
- An elongated penetrator in a new high-performance tungsten alloy has been designed with Plansee to defeat protection of latest generation MBTs.
- A proven and REACH compliant propulsion system that ensures the excellent velocity of the ammunition.
An ammunition already available for all NATO tanks: SHARD is a fully ITAR-free solution compatible with all NATO smoothbore 120mm tanks including Leclerc, Leopard 2, M1 Abrams, Ariete and Centauro 2. It has been designed according to the STANAG 4583 and Interface Control Document 120 (ICD120) standards. Thus, it offers significant operational, logistic and economic advantages to users: only one APFSDS ammunition for all gun systems.
A demonstration for Leclerc and Leopard 2 users was organised late 2023 in Alcochete, Portugal. Its 15% performance increase was demonstrated with successful firing tests performed on semi-infinite RHA targets. Demonstrations and contract negotiations for various countries in Europe, Middle-East and Asia are ongoing. SHARD is now ready for mass production. (Source: www.joint-forces.com)
01 Mar 24. US Industry compete for Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Autocannon. General Dynamics and Textron both gained US defence contracts to prototype a medium calibre autocannon for a future Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle.
On the 29 February 2024, the US Department of Defense (DoD) issued two contracts to design a prototype for an Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) with a medium calibre autocannon.
Awarded to two US defence technology providers – Textron, in a deal worth $11.8m, and General Dynamics Land Systems, in a contract valued slightly less at $10.9m – both are due to complete their designs by 24 March 2024.
Army Contracting Command invested in the competition from the ‘Fiscal 2024 research, development test and evaluation, Marine Corps funds’, which suggests that the future platform may provide an amphibious capability.
According to the leading intelligence consultancy, GlobalData, the US Army operates various ground-based artillery systems including 198 M109A6 Paladin units, 247 units of the latest M109A7 artillery, 1,420 units of the M2 Bradley vehicle, as well as 143 M7 Bradleys, among other similar systems.
When it comes to the autocannon, the German-based arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall, defines its own family of medium calibre automatic cannons within the 20-millimetre (mm) to 35mm calibre range.
These weapons are designed to retain their firepower, precision and reliability even under extreme environmental conditions, they have excellent mass-to-performance ratios, compact designs, long service lives and reduced recoil forces, the company delineated.
The US Army inventory also boasts a wide array of armoured, multi-purpose vehicles, from numerous Humvees to Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, onto which its various artillery systems can be integrated.
However, the inventory list appears to lack a reconnaissance-specific platform – a potential gap that the DoD may intend to fill with these two competing designs.
An unexpected platform request
DoD’s request for a new reconnaissance platform is unexpected, given the Army’s commitment to a new modular and open systems approach. Essentially, this is a cost-saving process that involves the iterative development of existing platforms, while integrating new capabilities.
This approach is best exemplified by the various versions within the Abrams family of main battle tanks, including the popular SEPv3 and the M1A2, among others.
The US Army already has the future XM30 infantry fighting vehicle and the consideration of various forms of uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) (for a hybridised force structure that no longer ‘trades blood for first contact’) in the pipeline.
While a crewed reconnaissance platform would fulfill the Army’s request for a hybrid force alongside UGVs when approaching an adversary on the battlefield, at the same time, designing a new platform from scratch neglects the iterative development process that the Army also supports.
(Source: army-technology.com)
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