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Dr. Thomas Withington

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Spectra Group STOCS

September Radio Roundup

STOCs and Shares Spectra Group’s SlingShot Tactical Operations Centre (STOC) is being enhanced with the addition of a low-band, commercial Ultra High Frequency (UHF: 300...
USAF B-2A Spirit Strategic Bomber

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,...
Reutech Project Radiate Tactical Radios for South African Military

Project Radiate Delivers

The South African National Defence Force is finally receiving a surfeit of new tactical radios allowing it to retire a raft of legacy systems. Reports...
Niger Army handheld radios

Junta Comms

The Niger Army appears to use rudimentary communications, primarily relying on civilian standard radios, with a smattering of specialist tactical transceivers. As these words were...
Allen-Vanguard Scorpion backpack ESM

September Spectrum SitRep

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest electronic warfare news in the product, programme and operational domains. Taming the Scorpion Allen-Vanguard announced in late July it...
USAF E-4 Undergoing EMP Testing

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...
1L267 Moskva-1 Passive Radar

Russian IADS Redux Part-8: Shocking Behaviour

Our Russian IADS Redux series examining the country’s strategic integrated air defence system comes to a close with a look at the electronic warfare...
S-400 Deployment Elektrostal

Russian IADS Redux Part-7: The Effectors

In the next part of our series on Russia’s strategic integrated air defence system, we look at the kinetic ground-based air defence systems it...
Comtech Troposcatter Radio

August Radio Roundup

Armada’s monthly round-up of all the latest military communications news in the product, programme and operational domains. New US Army Troposcatter Communications Comtech announced in a...
US Air Force Mobile 5G Test Station

Five Alive

5G networks may have important contributions to make in enhancing tactical communications but they are not without accompanying risks. It may have passed you by,...

Highlight of the Month

A bustling walkway at DSEI 2023

DSEI 2023 breaks all records

AERALIS’s fleet of varied Common Core Fuselage designs. (AERALIS)

The Core of AERALIS

Spectra Group STOCS

September Radio Roundup

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