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Pentagon budget 2020: MDA plans to boost Pacific missile defence radar
An artist’s concept drawing of how the Alaska-based LRDR would detect ballistic missile launches from Asia. Source: Lockheed MartinFrench Navy awards Airbus-led consortium RIFAN 2.1 contract
The French Navy has awarded the Airbus-led consortium the RIFAN 2.1 contract Source: AirbusUS Army National Guard buying FlexTrain instrumented live training system
A screenshot of the ORION EXCON and analysis software in the Ravenswood FlexTrain system, showing exercise activity, with live video and entity identification tag. The exercise timeline is along the bottom. Source: Giles EbbuttRoyal Netherlands Army orders Thales Multi Mission Radars
The Royal Netherlands Army is to replace its legacy TPQ-36 radars with nine new Thales Nederland MMRs.
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UK MoD commits to fast-track battlefield apps
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is committing another GBP30 million (USD40 million) in funding to accelerate the development of battlefield apps, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced on 11 March. The project for innovative application and software design, known as Platform for Rapid
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Thales builds up UK naval combat facility in support of Type 31e bid
Thales is to open a UK centre of excellence to develop its TACTICOS naval combat management system (CMS) in support of the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) future Type 31e frigate programme. As part of the Babcock-led Team 31, which is proposing the Arrowhead 140 ship design to meet the Type 31e
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UK planning Army Warfighting Experiment 19 and 20, eyes MUM-T and C3
The British Army has begun planning activities for the 2019 and 2020 iterations of its Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE), Lieutenant Colonel Nick Serle, commanding officer of the Infantry Trials and Development Unit (ITDU), said at the SMi Future Soldier Technology conference in London in March.
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Arexis escort jamming pod begins testing ahead of flight trials
Saab has commenced ground qualification of a prototype low-band escort jamming pod being developed as part of its Arexis family of fast jet electronic warfare (EW) systems and plans to begin flight testing the prototype before the end of this year. Announced in 2017, the Arexis family of electronic
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Thales UK marketing SquadNet soldier radios with frequency-hopping
Thales UK has added a frequency-hopping capability to its SquadNet mesh networking soldier radio and revealed this at the SMi Future Soldier Technology conference in March 2019 in London. The SquadNet radio, which operates in the 860–890 MHz range, has a point-to-point range of 2.5 km; in
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France bolsters cyber capabilities and commitment through new doctrine
France unveiled its first offensive cyber doctrine in January 2019, joining other Western states that are avowing a readiness to strike in cyberspace. William Moray surveys the doctrine's likely effects and its differences from the Anglosphere approach -
Canberra’s capabilities: Australia country briefing
The disruption of long-held assumptions underpinning Australia's strategic posture has moved the country's international security outlook from stable to unsettled. Julian Kerr reports -
Moscow’s missions: Russian expeditionary warfare capabilities
Russia’s military intervention in Syria and its growing footprint around the world have prompted interest in the country’s expeditionary capabilities. Tim Ripley examines Moscow’s recent intervention operations and how they are evolving
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US Marine Corps modifies weapons loader adapter for F-35B
The US Marine Corps (USMC) modified support equipment to allow the guided bomb unit (GBU)-49 munition to be used on the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant. When the USMC chose GBU-49 for the F-35B, it needed a piece of
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Russia’s Pacific Fleet receives new divisional set of Bastion mobile coastal defence missile system
The Russian Pacific Fleet in the Kamchatka Peninsula has received a new set of the land-based K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence missile system as part of a modernisation programme, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 12 March. An MoD video shows a column of at least seven
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US Marine Corps modifies weapons loader adapter for F-35B
The US Marine Corps (USMC) modified support equipment to allow the guided bomb unit (GBU)-49 munition to be used on the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) variant. When the USMC chose GBU-49 for the F-35B, it needed a piece of
