Tomorrow’s Fighters
There are a number of prospective ‘Next Generation’ fighter projects taking shape around the world, although not all will be truly revolutionary.
A new generation...
Rafale Success Hits Headwind Over India
It is 35 years since the Dassault Rafale first took off from Istres Airbase in France, on 4 July 1986. France was originally a...
Poland’s Diverse Military Air Requirements
Poland’s Air Force acquisition programmes that strive to replace Soviet-era airframes with NATO compatible ones have suffered from frequent delays due to funding and...
Royal Thai Air Force Selects Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine For Light Attack Role
Pitched against the Embraer Super Tucano, the Korea Aerospace Industries’ KA-1 and the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ Hurkuc C, the Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine has been...
Rough Transports stand ready to do Violence
Airbus has joined the sparse ranks of airframers offering ISR gunship versions of their seemingly benign transport aircraft.
Airbus Defence and Space’s late June 2021...
Spectrum Sitrep
Our new section detailing new products, programme developments and operational news across the electronic warfare domain.
Products
Roke launched its new Perceive Electronic Support Measure (ESM)...
Let’s Be Careful Up There!
October’s EW Europe conference included presentations and discussions on how NATO sees aircraft integrated self-defence systems developing in the coming years.
Aircraft survivability was a...
Powering up the Future Combat Air System
By signing the third implementing agreement for the Next Generation Weapon System (NGWS) within a Future Combat Air System (FCAS) in August 2021, France,...
AERALIS announces industry collaboration with Rolls-Royce
British military jet developer AERALIS has marked a key milestone in the development of its pioneering modular military aircraft, entering a landmark Memorandum of...
Multi-million pound Tempest funding set to advance the UK’s future Combat Air capability
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract worth approximately £250m to progress the design and development of Tempest, the UK’s Future Combat...
