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...
The Switchblade 600 tactical missile system (Image credit: AeroVironment)

Pentagon requests $300 million for secret drone programme

The U.S. Department of Defense submitted a classified request to Congress last week, to redirect $300 million of approved funding from other budgets to...
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...
Tomahawk cruise missile

Japan signs deal to purchase US Tomahawk missiles

Japan has signed an agreement with the United States to purchase the Raytheon Tomahawk land-attack sea-launched cruise missile. Under the agreement – which was signed...
A2PATS

January Spectrum SitRep

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains. COALESCE is More BAE Systems announced a contract win...
Frequentis VOICE C2 System (Frequentis)

December Radio Roundup

Armada’s monthly roundup of all the latest news in the military communications product, programme and operational domains. Hearing Voices In late October, Frequentis announced it was...
Israeli hospital raid

How Hamas Talks

Clues emerge concerning the communications systems Hamas relies on as hostilities continue in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defence Force (IDF) troops entered Gaza City’s...
HMAS Brisbane

Deterrence at sea remains vital to underpinning international rules-based order, says Australian defence chief

Deterrence, including credible defence capability at sea, remains essential to maintaining stability and security, and the wider rules-based international order, in the Indo-Pacific region,...
PLA Troops in Sidecar

MDO With Chinese Characteristics

The US DOD’s annual report on the People’s Liberation Army contains some interesting discussion of the importance the force attaches to connectivity. On 19th October,...

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