Tag: EDA
Above and Beyond the Trenches
While small UAVs are proving their value on the battlefield in Ukraine for ISR and attack, there is an ongoing drive for larger, longer...
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...
Back to the Future
Can Additive Manufacturing processes really deliver useful support to deployed naval vessels?
On 1 August 1785, Jean François de Galaup (comte de Lapérouse) set sail...
APS Provides Jamming or Kinetic Stopping Power Against Drones
Advanced Protection Systems (APS) will be showing its counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) SKYctrl at MSPO over the coming days.
“Radar technology is what we know...
EDITOR’S BUNKER BRIEFING (3 October 2022, No.80)
UKRAINE FIGHTS BACK, WHILE THE WALLS CLOSE IN ON PUTIN
Dear Readers,
Since my last Bunker Briefing, the tide of war has turned in favour of...
EU Looks to Optimise for Greater Strategic Autonomy
On 22 April the European Defence Agency (EDA) announced the implementation of OPTIMISE, a project led by Spanish company Skylife Engineering but involving nine...
European Defence Agency Offers Invites Applicants to compete for $35,000 Defence Innovation Prize 2021
The European Defence Agency is looking for applications from non-traditional defence industries (civil or dual-use producers) and researchers (although not exclusively) who are creating...
European Defence Agency Identifies Ten Topics With Future Potential
The European Defence Agency’s (EDA) Steering Board has identified 10 topics that will be studied to see if they are suitable to be considered...
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...
Flying Filling Stations
Operation INHERENT RESOLVE (OIR), the ongoing US-led military operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgent group which has occupied significant...