A T-45C Goshawk

US Navy Overhauls Pilot Training

The United States Navy (USN) was short of almost 100 fighter pilots in mid-July 2022 and the problem is not expected to improve anytime...
The ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System (TJS)

Ruining Radars

Europe has embarked on an ambitious airborne electronic attack programme; a timely capability to counter a growing threat. Standby for acronyms: The European Defence Agency’s...
Suffren class submarines

Silent Running

The increased popularity among navies to own their own submarine fleets are driving new advances in submarine propulsion. If the SEA 1000 submarine programme in...
Saab's 9LV CMS

Managing Maritime Combat – At Speed

The speed of warfare and the proliferation of multi-domain threats has increased the pressure on naval combat management system develpment Hypersonic and ballistic missiles, unmanned...
L3Harris Ivers AUV

Tracking UUVs in the Deep

Operating vessels underwater has always had its challenges, but techniques are surfacing on how to manage this with the new shoal of unmanned craft. Mesh...
USS Gabrielle Giffords

Striking Back

Raytheon’s Tomahawk cruise missile Block development provides new challenges to Kongsberg’s increasingly popular Naval Strike Missile. For a long time in the post-Cold War world,...
Thales SMART-L naval surveillance radar

Naval Radar Market Forecast $2.6 Billion Over 15 Years

The market for naval surveillance radars to equip large surface combatants could be worth in excess of $2.6 billion over the next 15 years. Naval...
AN/TPQ-53 radars

Detect to Defeat

A new generation of ground-based radars now entering service are delivering dramatic leaps in performance. The modern battlefield features a bewildering and complex array of...
SABR

AESA Radar – Required Not Desired

For some years now, whether or not a fighter has an AESA radar has been a key discriminator, but the technology is increasingly being...
RAAF

Listening Out of Sight

The importance of airborne intelligence gathering has been underlined by the war in Ukraine and listening almost from a position of anonymity is a...

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