Tag: Soviet Union
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...
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...
Russian IADS Redux Part-5: Reset Password?
Part 5 of Armada’s ongoing Russian IADS Redux series looks at the IFF systems the country’s IADS uses to determine friend from foe.
Previous articles...
Trop of the Pops
New tropospheric communications systems will provide important enhancements to British Army and NATO beyond line-of-sight communications.
In early March Spectra Group announced it would supply...
Electronic Warfare Podcast 18: Cold Space
The United States and Soviet Union poured billions of dollars into signals intelligence satellites during the Cold War.
These spacecraft were an invulnerable and invaluable...
The End of Charleroi
In the third of our four-part series on the potential effect of nuclear weapons on selected targets around the world, we examine the possible...
Ukrspecexport Bullish on Future Prospects
The Director General of Ukraine’s state-owned defence export company Ukrspecexport Pavel Bukin, says that the firm has enjoyed a healthy order book in 2014/15,...