Tag: Royal Air Force
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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! 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...
Listening Out of Sight
The importance of airborne intelligence gathering has been underlined by the war in Ukraine and listening almost from a position of anonymity is a...
Editor’s Bunker Briefing: World Defense Show After-action Report 21 February 2023 (No.85)
Dear Readers,
In February I visited the 2nd World Defense Show (4-8 February, 2024), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I visited the first one in 2022...
February Radio Roundup
Armada’s monthly roundup of all the latest news in the military communications product, programme and operational domains.
New Software Router
In early December Bittium was contracted...
