BAE sets up strategic partnership with Embraer

BAE Systems and Brazil’s Embraer announced at the Farnborough Airshow on 19 July that they had signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) establishing a...

Tempest demonstrator ‘to fly within five years’

A demonstrator of the Tempest sixth-generation fighter will fly within the next five years, senior officials associated with the programme announced at the Farnborough...
Ray Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S)

Raytheon UK Acquires Domain Awareness Firm Northern Space and Security

Raytheon UK has entered into an agreement to acquire Northern Space and Security (NORSS), a UK-based specialist in space domain awareness, orbital analysis, space...

UK NMH Bid Win Would Trigger End of AW149 Production in Italy

Leonardo remain “incredibly optimistic” about the success of its bid to build the AW149 helicopter at its Yeovil plant, the only onshore helicopter manufacturer...
US Army HF Radio

July Radio Roundup

Armada's monthly roundup of all the latest news in the military communications product, programme and operational domains. Products Collins Aerospace revealed during this year’s Eurosatory exhibition,...
Bowman Radio System

Project EVO Problems

EVO, the first stage of the UK’s Project Morpheus command, control and communications overhaul for British land forces, seems troubled. Project Morpheus is a complex,...
ESSOR Interoperability Test

Testing Times

Europe’s ESSOR wideband waveform takes an important step forward in its quest to enhance tactical communications interoperability. The A4ESSOR consortium announced at this year’s Eurosatory...
The French Army’s new ESRP handheld radio is a single channel system providing power outputs of up to five watts.

Making Contact

The French armed forces’ Contact programme is one of Europe’s most ambitious tactical communications renewals. Thales is leading this programme rolling out new transceivers...
Skylock

July Spectrum SitRep

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains. Products Rohde & Schwarz took advantage of the Eurosatory...
DRDO Anti-AEW Missile

Whacking AWACS

India is developing an anti-AWACS missile, possibly with Russian assistance. It largely went unnoticed, but reports emerged in June that India’s Defence Research and Development...

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