AUSA: Defiant – The Rotorcraft That Thinks It’s a Jet (‘Breaking Parachute Included’)

AUSA, Washington DC: The sensation of flying the Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant rotorcraft “is more like a tactical jet than a helicopter,” said Sikorsky test...

Collective simulations for improved air training.

A new EDA research project, for which the Agency Steering Board has just given its go-ahead, will help participating Member States’ Armed Forces to...

NATO Support & Procurement Agency orders an additional Airbus A330 MRTT

Airbus has received a firm order for an Airbus A330 MRTT Multi-Role Tanker Transport from OCCAR, Europe’s organisation for the management of cooperative armament...
Gripen-Stores-Loadout-(Saab)

Decoy and Destroy

A new addition to Saab’s Arexis electronic warfare product line provides added protection for Gripen. For Saab the Arexis airborne Electronic Warfare (EW) architecture is...
VROD-and-VMAX-(US-Army)

Jamming Backpacks

The US Army could receive backpack-based electronic warfare/cyber attack systems in the coming years. The Check the Manual article in the September edition of Armada’s...
FCAS-(Airbus)

Making Waves

The EU’s Radio Frequency Sensors Technologies CapTech is helping to spur innovation in the electronic warfare domain. The European Defence Agency (EDA) is tasked...
ECRS-Mk2-(Leonardo)

Beam Scheme

Specialist and general media were abuzz in early September with the news that the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon fleet will receive a new AESA...
WPU-2000

New ELINT Receiver

Rohde and Schwarz unveils its new WPU-2000 Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) receiver. The WPU-2000 detects transmissions from 20 megahertz/MHz to 18 gigahertz/GHz. These frequencies can be...
Ukrainian-Air-Force-Su-25-(Ukranian-Ministry-of-Defence)

Life in the old Frog yet?

The loss of an Armenian Air Force Su-25 Frogfoot prompts questions about the type’s survivability. Despite its age the the Sukhoi Su-25 series (NATO...
Cessna-C-206-(US-DHS)

High Above Louisville

The US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly flown SIGINT gathering aircraft above civil rights protests in the United States. On 24th September open sources...

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