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*Tigre fleet gives new punch to French Army attack capability in Afghanistan
For the first two years of its service life, which formally got under way with the delivery of initial-series (Step II) aircraft to the ...
09-Mar-2010
*One-shot wonders: sniper system technology emerges from call to arms
Although the deployment of snipers is increasingly common by both coalition forces and insurgent combatants as 'force multipliers', technology improvements have been slow over ...
08-Mar-2010
*Hidden protection: special forces cover up to blend in with locals
As conventional forces are increasingly involved in counter-insurgency operations, for which they require ever-improving levels of overt protection, special forces operators on covert missions ...
04-Mar-2010
*Under control: addressing aerial congestion in operational areas
In asymmetric wars such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq there has been little in the way of air threats for the battlefield air-defence ...
04-Mar-2010
*Bolt from the blue: helicopters tool up to join the littoral fight
From early in their life naval helicopters were recognised as ideal offboard strike platforms, but it was not until the 1960s that they began ...
03-Mar-2010
*CQB technologies help forces grapple with short-range front line
An enemy that seamlessly emerges from and fades back into an indigenous population at will has meant coalition forces operating in Afghanistan have never ...
11-Feb-2010
*Open season: submarine sonars build on commercial imperatives
In the mid-1990s the US Navy (USN) was confronted with the twin challenges of escalating development costs and a diminishing acoustic advantage, which encouraged ...
11-Feb-2010
*Fire control: AESA and M-Scan track advances in fighter radars
Just as gun synchronisation revolutionised aerial warfare during the 1914-18 conflict, the advent of fighter fire-control systems based on active electronically scanned array (AESA) ...
11-Feb-2010
*UAE awaits in expectation as Baynunah corvette commences sea trials
The launch of the first example of a new class of compact, but heavily armed, surface combatant in the industrial port city of Cherbourg, ...
11-Feb-2010
*Holding steady: helicopter handling takes a firmer grip
In the 1960s small-ship helicopter operations began to have a profound impact on the design of frigate-size warships. Today, the provision of a flight ...
15-Jan-2010
*Tail to teeth: unmanned haulers ease the soldier's lot on the battlefield
For major armed forces, manned helicopters and high-mobility logistics vehicles have been the sine qua non of forward-area resupply since the 1960s. Despite the...
15-Jan-2010
*Flying high: improved parachute systems hit the ground running
While the plethora of protected patrol vehicles in Afghanistan captures headlines around the world, the surgical insertion of troops and supplies by parachute and ...
14-Jan-2010
*Nowhere to hide: new radar technology exposes the enemy's hidden secrets
Just as the first generation of air defence radars held out the prospect of reliable target detection at night and in bad weather, today's ...
17-Dec-2009
*Long-rangers: expanding reach of theatre-wide air defence
The passing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in 2002 led to a flurry of work to develop and field ballistic missile defences (BMDs), but ...
17-Dec-2009
*Keep on keeping on: FFG-7 frigate upgrades offer a new lease of life
In May 2009 the US Navy (USN) hosted the first International Frigate Working Group event for operators of FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate variants, ...
17-Dec-2009
*Global responses: from the US to all four corners of the world
This is a revised version of an article originally published on 10 November While there is no question that the enormous US MRAP...
23-Nov-2009
*Beneath the radar: land-based air defence is back in business
Last year's Russo-Georgian war was marked by several novel aspects, not least the success of land-based air defences to knock down firstly Georgian unmanned ...
10-Nov-2009
*Setting the standards: US decides to build on monolithic MRAP
The US Department of Defense's (DoD's) urgent response to the mounting casualties being suffered in hastily uparmoured light vehicles on operations in Iraq and ...
10-Nov-2009
*Power play: engines give fuel for thought
Despite flirtations with nuclear power when the science was in its infancy, the vast majority of naval surface vessels are still powered by fossil ...
10-Nov-2009
*Super CSAR: technological advances open up new frontiers for rescue forces
In June 1995, a US Air Force (USAF) F-16 was shot down while patrolling the no-fly zone over Bosnia. After evading Serbian patrols for ...
10-Nov-2009
*One for all and all for one: large-scale virtual training aims to make the grade
Joint and coalition operations are the norm in the modern battlespace; from the Gulf War in 1991 through to peacekeeping operations in the Balkans ...
07-Oct-2009
*Playing the part: MBTs evolve to enhance role in urban operations
The primary role of main battle tanks (MBTs) has always been to engage and defeat other MBTs on the battlefield and for many countries ...
07-Oct-2009
*The heavyweight contenders
The US and its coalition military partners are in the midst of a massive adjustment of strategy to confront the reality of 21st-century conflict ...
06-Oct-2009
*Striking out, homing in: SSGWs take the fight beyond the shore
The last 40 years have seen the heavyweight surface-to-surface guided weapon (SSGW) become established as the weapon of choice for surface ships prosecuting offensive ...
05-Oct-2009
*On track: airborne IRST prepares for leap into uncharted territory
The origins of airborne infrared detection and tracking of targets can be traced to the mid-1960s when F-101B Voodoo interceptors of the US Air ...
08-Sep-2009
*Sound from the seas: UK evolves Sonar 2076 submarine sonar suite
The world was a very different place back in the late 1980s when the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Royal Navy (RN) conceived ...
08-Sep-2009
*Artillery, rockets and mortars answer the call for precision
The call from within operational theatres for precision-fire artillery rocket and mortar systems has become louder because of the extreme proximity of friendly and ...
07-Sep-2009
*Small but perfectly formed: mini munitions offer precision impact
This is a revised version of a story that was originally posted on 11 August. The race to develop better, smaller, cheaper airborne weapons ...
14-Aug-2009
*Global forces gun for increased protection and accuracy with remote weapon stations
Against a background of growing threat levels over the past five years in Afghanistan and Iraq, ranging from small arms fire to increasingly powerful ...
12-Aug-2009
*Two of a kind: pragmatism drives UK carrier construction scheme
It has taken 15 years to conceptualise, justify, define and iteratively design the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) two new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers as ...
12-Aug-2009
*The great calibre conspiracy
Following intense close-quarter battles with local militia in Somalia in 1992, US forces complained that their 5.56 mm weapons, which fire the NATO standard ...
11-Aug-2009
*Charge of the light brigade: infantry's burden in need of improved electronics
Just as military commanders are apparently never happy with the level of resources available to them, it seems unlikely there will ever be a ...
11-Aug-2009
*Protective cover: littoral threats drive new approach to soft-kill ship defence
While surface ships have for many years been equipped with soft-kill decoys and active jammers for protection against anti-ship missile threats, they have hitherto ...
13-Jul-2009
*It's good to talk: advances in intercom technology widen communications net
Communications equipment has improved enormously over the past two decades. Formerly only higher command echelons could network and share information, but those capabilities are ...
10-Jul-2009
*Historical present: Russia strives to modernise airborne weapons
Russia's design bureaux have many impressive technical achievements to their credit, and have delivered some formidable - even unique - weapon systems. During the ...
09-Jul-2009
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