Sighting Dynamics
Variable magnification and laser range finding are two factors that have greatly improved weapon sighting for modern riflemen.
For much of history the primary focus...
Polish Defence Ambition vs. Reality
Polish military procurement has ambition, although this has been slowed by ‘piecemeal’ and tardy decision making over the years.
The Polish Government through the Armament...
Poland’s Diverse Military Air Requirements
Poland’s Air Force acquisition programmes that strive to replace Soviet-era airframes with NATO compatible ones have suffered from frequent delays due to funding and...
Rough Transports stand ready to do Violence
Airbus has joined the sparse ranks of airframers offering ISR gunship versions of their seemingly benign transport aircraft.
Airbus Defence and Space’s late June 2021...
Looking Down From On High
The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force is bringing in new platforms to continue its airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capability, a skill developed...
Pegasus Stretches Her Wings
Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Moores, Commander 344th Air Refueling Squadron provides insight into the squadron’s transition to the KC-46A Pegasus, its expanding mission set and...
All Change at the Corps: Force Design 2030
The plan for the future of the US Marine Corps is contentious and will see a restructuring away from its traditional all-arms employment.
A revision...
Navy’s NAVPLAN Integration in a Contested Sea
As rivalry returns at sea, navies are seeking dominance at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. In this context, using networked datalinks to enable,...
C-UAS – Solving the Detection Problem
Small unmanned systems are often difficult for engaged ground forces to detect - but help is at hand.
As we have seen in the UAV...
Airborne Deception
Deflection and deception is the key to survival against missile attack and the expendables market is developing smarter products to keep aircraft safe.
Since its...
