Tag: nuclear weapons
Ready Mercury?
The US Navy has shared details with Armada regarding its ongoing plans to replace the force’s existing Boeing E-6B Mercury TACAMO aircraft.
The TACAMO...
Murmurs of Murmansk
The Islamic Republic of Iran has received GT-01 Murmansk-BN communications jamming systems from Russia.
Media reports in early August disclosed that Russia has delivered its...
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...
Radioflash! Episode 12: Space to Think
The importance of space as a domain of warfare is deepening. Since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s, militaries have exploited...
Radioflash! Episode 11: V-Bombers and Soviet Air Defence
One of the Cold War’s great ‘what ifs?’ was whether the United Kingdom’s V-Bomber nuclear deterrent force would have been able to reach and...
Spirit of Cooperation
The USAF’s Boeing B-2A Spirit strategic bombers are getting communications enhancements which will help them obtain new mission information during their sorties.
On 9th August,...
Assertiveness Training
In early July the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began soliciting proposals for is Advanced Single-Event Radiation Testing Programme, better known as...
Bad News Travels Fast
The US Navy’s E-6B Mercury aircraft is a key component of the United States’ strategic nuclear deterrent. Thoughts are turning to its replacement.
On 19th...
May Spectrum SitRep
Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains.
Lightning Protection
In early April BAE Systems received a...
Silo Protection
The US Air Force’s ballistic missile force is receiving important communications enhancements to help protect it from hostile actions on US soil.
The United...
