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Probable Sopka-2 radar installation with HF comms array

High Frequency in the High North

New analysis comes to light regarding high frequency trunk communications used by Russia’s strategic integrated air defence system. Regular Armada readers will be aware of...
GNSS Jamming around Grozny 25th December 2025

Someone had Blundered

The loss of an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft during a routine flight from Baku to Grozny on 25th December raises some troubling questions about Russian...
National Military Command Centre

Of Strelets and Andromeda

A new book sheds light on the organisation of Russian land forces’ command and control, and the digital battle management systems they employ at...
12A6 Sopka-2 Ground-based Air Surveillance Radar on Wrangel Island

Sopka-2 Radar Update

In March 2023 we published an article about Russia’s 12A6 Sopka-2 ground-based air surveillance radar. Since the article’s publication, new information has come to...
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...
Vostok-3D Radar

Taking Stock of Vostok

In partnership with EW Analytics LLC, we share details of the new Belarussian Vostok-3D ground-based air surveillance radar. Built in Belarus, the KB Group...
Sky Sabre

Cleansing the Skies

A new report details the communications challenges faced by the British Army as the force looks to enhance and overhaul its ground-based air defence...
Patria ARIS-E ESM System

March Spectrum SitRep

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains. New ARIS Acquisitions In early February, Patria announced it...
AGM-88

Following the Rule Book

Details are emerging of the Ukrainian Air Force’s air defence suppression doctrine as the country seeks to win and sustain air superiority and supremacy...

Radioflash! Episode-7: Superiority Complex

It is a truism of military theory that the road to victory is harder for the side which does not win and sustain air...

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