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Russia deploys task group to Caribbean and Cuba

A Russian Federation Navy task group has visited Havana, Cuba, in what is being seen as a display of power projection capability. Four naval vessels...
USS Gabrielle Giffords

Striking Back

Raytheon’s Tomahawk cruise missile Block development provides new challenges to Kongsberg’s increasingly popular Naval Strike Missile. For a long time in the post-Cold War world,...
'Sea Baby' sea drone (Credit: Security Service of Ukraine)

Has Russia destroyed Ukraine’s naval drone capability?

This week Russia claims to have destroyed the Ukrainian Navy's production and storage facilities for naval drones, using multiple seaborne long-range precision weapons against...
Russian Military Districts

Russian IADS Redux Part-6: Fundament-alists

Part 6 of Armada’s ongoing series on Russia’s strategic integrated air defence system examined its identification friend or foe apparatus. This article looks at...
NSM Launch Truck Kongsberg

Coastal Defence Receives Boost as Poland and Ukraine Collaborate

While defence against aerial threats is receiving principal media attention efforts to counter other potential threats, particularly attacks from the sea, are being given...
HMS Defender

Multi-Mission Platforms: Armada’s Top 10 Destroyers and Frigates

New generations of destroyers and frigates are continuing to bring an increase in capability, and an increase in contribution across the battlespace. As state-on-state strategic...
Algerian Air Force Resonance VHF Radar

Russian IADS Redux Part-1: Resonating with Resonance

In the first part of a new Armada series aiming to demystify Russia’s Integrated Air Defence System we examine the Resonance-N/NE ground-based air defence...
French Navy Frigate

Trust me, I’m a Doctrine

The Marine Nationale takes a robust line on the role of electronic warfare for anti-ship missile defence, but will its future ships have the...
Pantsir-Me

Russia fires for the first time at sea the naval Pantsir

The Russian Navy has tested for the first time from a ship the Pantsir-M surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery system, which is a naval version of the...
USS-Donald-Cook

Black Sea Flash Point

As Turkey vacillates its affections between NATO and Russia, and since the Russian seizure of Crimea and military action in eastern Ukraine, naval patrols...

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