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F/A-18E/F

January Spectrum SitRep

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains. ADVEW Delta Design Review Raytheon announced via a press...
Combat air demonstrator - simulator

Signs of Things to Come

BAE details some of the technologies being developed for its Tempest Flying Technology Demonstrator aircraft. The United Kingdom has revealed some of the technologies being...
Project Morpheus

Mortal Morpheus

Project Morpheus, the next generation of Tactical Communication and Information Systems (TacCIS)  for the United Kingdom’s land manoeuvre forces is not going well. Is...
Tactical Datalink

Keeping Secrets

Why capturing an airborne radio compatible with NATO’s Link-16 tactical datalink protocol may not hand Russian radio frequency engineers an intelligence coup. In late November,...
BriteStorm on UAV

Storm Clouds

The Royal Air Force has performed trials with a new airborne jammer which shows promise in supporting the suppression/destruction of enemy air defence mission. The...
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...
ALARM Missile

Difficult Decisions

Armada has been told that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) had considered supplying examples of the ALARM missile to Ukraine. A senior...
General Atomics SOAR SIGINT Pod

There be Dragons!

Reports on social media emerged in April that Royal Air Force General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper uninhabited aerial vehicles are flying equipped with the Outdragon...
P-8

UK opens additional US P-8 facilities at RAF Lossiemouth, enhancing integration

The UK and the United States have further enhanced the integration of their respective P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) operations with the opening...
RadioFlash-Podcast-11

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...

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