Tag: airpower
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...