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Soldier with PRC-158

MUOS Earns its Wings

Communications and networking for US Army airborne forces has taken a step forward following trials of a new architecture that could reduce the hardware...
Anechoic Chamber

The Silent Hangar

The United Kingdom will soon receive a new, large anechoic chamber to help evaluate and improve military aircraft electromagnetic discretion and protection. News emerged in...
Transportable 5G Node

5G in a Box

The United States Air Force’s (USAF’s) Global Strike Command is deepening its levels of connectivity with the acquisition of transportable 5G cellular communications networks. Fifth...
ALQ-172 Control Panel

MARS Attacks

The US Air Force’s venerable Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber is receiving important enhancements to its self-protection systems. L3Harris was awarded a ten-year $947...
Dutch Military Communications

Talking Dutch

Discussions concerning the procurement of new tactical radios to support the Dutch military’s Foxtrot communications modernisation programme are entering their final stages.  The Netherlands...
CIRCM on CH-47

July Spectrum SitRep

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains. Captain CIRCM In early June Northrop Grumman announced that...
Destroyed Pantsir system

To Kill a Pantsir

Armada has been briefed on some of the tactics used to engage and defeat the 96K6 Pantsir-S1 series SHORAD system. The 96K6 Pantsir-S1 (NATO...
1L222M Avtobaza-M

Iran’s Avtobazas

Last month, Armada published an article about what maybe an Iranian version of Russia’s 1RL257E Krasukha-4 ground-based Electronic Warfare (EW) system. Information has since...
Kometa-M

Seeking Guidance

In early March, the Ukrainian media announced that Russian forces are using an enhanced version of the Kometa GNSS receiver in the Ukrainian theatre. The...
Viasat XVI Satellite Rendering

Link Rays

The United States Space Development Agency’s embrace of Link-16 connectivity is gathering momentum greatly improving the tactical datalink’s geographical footprint. Link-16 is a North Atlantic...

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