Dr. Thomas Withington
Editor, Defence commentator, journalist, military historian.
Armada International Podcast: Counter-small UAS in current operations
Tim Elliott, Head of Sales and Business Development, and Rob Hall, Product Management Lead at L3Harris in Tewkesbury and Fleet join Dr. Thomas Withington...
Seeking Guidance
In early March, the Ukrainian media announced that Russian forces are using an enhanced version of the Kometa GNSS receiver in the Ukrainian theatre.
The...
April Radio Roundup
New Millimetric Wave Module
Peraso unveiled its new PRM2136 millimetric wave module to support secure tactical communications in March. A company data sheet said that...
Proving the Design
The US Army’s Combat Net Radio takes an important step towards service entry as the system begins its first article testing phase.
The US Army’s...
Link Rays
The United States Space Development Agency’s embrace of Link-16 connectivity is gathering momentum greatly improving the tactical datalink’s geographical footprint.
Link-16 is a North Atlantic...
Radioflash! Episode 11: V-Bombers and Soviet Air Defence
One of the Cold War’s great ‘what ifs?’ was whether the United Kingdom’s V-Bomber nuclear deterrent force would have been able to reach and...
April Spectrum SitRep
Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains.
New CUAV Systems for Ukrainian Military
In early March...
Russian Drone Protection
A Russian military manual provides useful details on how Russian land forces counter uninhabited aerial vehicles at the tactical level.
As Armada highlighted in a...
Cobra Shows its Fangs
Iran claims to have new jamming capabilities in the form of the Cobra-V8, but is this simply a re-badged Russian Krasukha-4 electronic attack system,...
Check the Manual
Armada has obtained a Russian language military manual providing guidance on tactical first person view uninhabited aerial vehicle employment by Russia’s land forces.
The manual...
