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International Defence Review
*Position of power: the GNSS revolution enters a new era
Prolonged use of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) such as the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS) has proven utterly addictive.
24-Jan-2012
*Overlooked output: Italian influence in Libya
Italy was something of an unsung hero during 2011's operations 'Odyssey Dawn' (OOD) and 'Unified Protector' (OUP), despite undertaking what was its biggest mission since...
19-Jan-2012
*CSTTX offers new coherence for overwatch
Under the auspices of its Command, Staff and Tactical Training Group (CSTTG), the British Army's synthetic training facilities in the UK (Warminster/Catterick) and Germany (Sennelager)...
19-Jan-2012
*Libya: the French carrier battle group and dynamic targeting
Recent air operations by coalition forces over Libya in support of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973 have shown that, in the absence of a...
18-Jan-2012
*Bitter pills for UK air-land integration
The first commander of the UK's newly created Joint Forces Command (JFC), Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, took up his post on 1 December...
16-Jan-2012
*CTAI ramps up its CTCA programme
For many years a degree of smoke and mirrors hid the fact that there were only very small numbers of CTA International's (CTAI's) - a...
12-Jan-2012
*Catching the wire: NAVAIR investigates future aircraft recovery methods
Research activity undertaken in-house by the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is examining technologies...
12-Jan-2012
Rear view mirror: IHS Jane's looks back on 2011
Nick Brown, Editor, Jane's IDR Two events - separated by about 30 seconds - stand out viscerally for me from 2011. The first was ...
14-Dec-2011
*Hot and high: Afghan ops test Shadow UAS
The US Army and AAI have established a specialist team to determine the root cause of an engine issue that has affected the service's RQ-7B...
13-Dec-2011
*US elevates SIGINT capability to new heights
The RC-12X aircraft is heir to a 40-year sequence of US SIGnals INTelligence (SIGINT) architectures and their associated airborne sensor platforms. It also fundamentally ...
08-Dec-2011
*Swedish Gripens over Libya
The NATO-led Operation 'Unified Protector' (OUP) over Libya, which was terminated at the end of October, was the first international mission in which the Royal...
05-Dec-2011
*Burden of proof: Thales Nederland's first I-Mast shipset approaches key sea trials milestone
Conventional warship topside radar arrangements are generally suboptimal from an electromagnetic and operational standpoint. Typically dozens of transmit and receive antennas compete for scarce space...
05-Dec-2011
*K21 Infantry Fighting Vehicle enters service
The Republic of Korea (ROK) is overhauling its armour, supplementing its legacy Korean Infantry Fighting Vehicle (KIFV) with the new K21 family.
05-Dec-2011
*The new WMD: 'weapons of minimum destruction'
The acceptable usages of warfare change over time. In the current era of 'wars among the people', the employment of Second World War-style carpet ...
14-Nov-2011
*Thinking big: Type 216 concept looks afresh at long endurance SSK design
German submarine builder Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) - part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems - has unveiled initial details of its concept for a large, ocean-going non-nuclear...
07-Nov-2011
*BAE Systems pushes Bradley variants to meet US Army's AMPV requirement
In October 2010, BAE Systems revealed plans to create a family of Bradley-based vehicles at the Association of the US Army's (AUSA) annual symposium. The...
07-Nov-2011
*Star of Africa: Sentinel R.1 displays tactical versatility as an ISTAR asset
When the time comes to write the history of Operations 'Ellamy' and 'Herrick', there is little doubt the UK Royal Air Force's (RAF's) Sentinel R.1...
03-Nov-2011
*Knee support: digital maps put mission planning at aircrews' fingertips
UK aircrews have flown sorties with an innovative digital 'kneepad' on operations over Libya, Jane's learnt at the DSEi exhibition in London in mid-September. ...
07-Oct-2011
*Simulated study: UK Royal Navy expands training capabilities with MCTS
The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) new Maritime Composite Training System (MCTS), supplied by BAE Systems Mission Systems, was declared ready on 19 August 2011 and...
05-Oct-2011
*Predatory phases: BAE Systems offers enhanced CVR(T)s in multiple variants
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has deployed a fleet of upgraded Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) - CVR(T) - light armoured vehicles to Afghanistan and...
04-Oct-2011
*Optional aircrew: OPVs explore the best of both manned and unmanned worlds
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have long since proved their worth over the modern battlefield and they are expected to play an increasingly critical role in...
20-Sep-2011
*The Hawkeye soft-recoil howitzer: US cannoneers follow 'the Rock Island line'
The Mandus Hawkeye - a modern revival of a soft-recoil artillery howitzer technology tested and approved for service by the US Army in the 1970s...
16-Sep-2011
*Hands off: technology demonstrations aim to de-risk the autonomous flight deck
If the US Navy has its way, a first generation of stealthy, carrier-capable unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) could achieve an initial operating capability by...
02-Sep-2011
*Active protection systems penetrate the armoured vehicle market
In the three years since IDR's last major review of active protection systems for main battle tanks (MBTs), their development for armoured vehicles has become...
01-Sep-2011
*US Army drives forward with Ground Combat Vehicle programme bid awards
The US Army has begun the technology development phase (TDP) for its Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) programme after awarding two contracts worth a total of...
30-Aug-2011
*Digital delights: commercial wireless communications on the battlefield
The incentives for the military to adopt commercial mobile wireless broadband communications technologies (among them iterations such as Wi-Fi, WiMax, 3G and 4G) as ...
30-Aug-2011
*RAF looks to build on Reaper experience to shape future RPAS
In 2007 the UK Royal Air Force's (RAF's) capabilities underwent a step change: through an urgent operational requirement (UOR) the service took responsibility for the...
30-Aug-2011
*Coming together: a year of Scout work
In July 2010 General Dynamics (GD) UK scooped the UK's biggest armoured vehicle prize when it was selected to build the British Army's GBP500 ...
25-Aug-2011
*Canada builds a future with equipment and experience gained in Afghanistan
Canada's missions in Afghanistan ushered in an era of rapid change for the Canadian Forces (CF) and have transformed the country's small military into an...
12-Aug-2011
*Joint Strike Missile programme aims to sharpen the Nordic spear for JSF
Kongsberg Defence Systems has been awarded a NOK543 million (USD100.2 million) contract by the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation (NDLO) to undertake Phase II development of...
03-Aug-2011
*Wily Wildcat: Dakar demands drive Supacat's new desert raiding platform
Supacat is working to militarise QT Services' successful Wildcat rally raid vehicle, ahead of its official launch scheduled for the DSEi exhibition in London in...
02-Aug-2011
*Next-generation Little Birds prepare to spread their wings in a new guise
Around 50 years after entering service with the US Army as a light scout platform, the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse helicopter received a new lease of...
28-Jul-2011
*Roketsan targets guided anti-tank missile development and production
Since the mid-1990s Turkey's Roketsan has firmly established itself in the design, development and production of unguided surface-to-surface rockets. During the past decade, however, the...
13-Jul-2011
*NATO puts focus on co-ordinated intervention in Exercise 'Bold Monarch'
NATO's triennial submarine rescue exercise, 'Bold Monarch 2011' (BMH11), took place off the southeast coast of Spain between 30 May and 10 June and was...
08-Jul-2011
*Eyes in the sky: P-8A shapes up in bid to step into E-8C Joint STARS shoes
Boeing is seeking to develop derivatives of the P-8A Poseidon maritime multimission aircraft for the US domestic and international markets and has responded to an...
06-Jul-2011
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