Articles from Armada International (June 1, 2007)

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Title	Author	Words
70 Mb over IP to 50 k.		113
A boat by any other name.		99
Aerial pick-ups; the ten tonners: offering an attractive combination of usefulness and affordability, utility helicopters of around ten tonnes are the aviation equivalent of the pick-up truck. Such aircraft are operated in large numbers, and several outstanding designs are competing for new and replacement orders.	Braybrook, Roy	2582
Big deals in short.		290
Boeing Australia.		42
Boeing has announced that the ScanEagle fully-autonomous drone, developed by Boeing and Insitu, has logged over 1000 flight hours in support of the Australian Army's Overwatch Battle Group (West)-2 on Operations Catalyst in southern Iraq.		47
Boeing.		44
CAE.		37
Denel Optronics.		64
Dominator on the battlefield.		75
Embraer to join air transport club.		235
Fighters face the Aesa revolution: since 2000, a small number of fighter aircraft have been flying with Active Electronically Scanned Array (Aesa) radars. To date, these have all been American, but design teams around the world are working to develop their own Aesa fighter radars.	Richardson, Doug	2739
Fixed wings: in the fixed-wing range of unmanned aircraft there are four main sub-categories: the Hales (High Altitude Long Endurance), the Males (Medium Altitude Long Endurance), followed by the tactical drones and the electrically powered lightweights/microlights. However, a new variety is now emerging: the optionally manned.		7167
From PVP to Gavial.		387
General Dynamics C4 Systems.		100
Going vertically: a drone that can take off and land vertically is preferable not only for naval users but also for front-line troops. As in the case of manned aircraft, vtol performance means above-normal power and thus below-normal fuel, hence payload, range and endurance are penalised.		805
Harris.		53
Help from above: the high cost of modern combat aircraft militates against risking them in close air support, but there are times when only air assets can provide the necessary fast response and concentration of firepower. This type of mission also remains essential for special forces and operations in mountainous terrain, where heavy artillery is not usually available.	Braybrook, Roy	3248
High hitters.	Kemp, Ian	2713
It's all in the cards.		100
Lighter than air.		1835
Lockheed Martin has partnered with the US Government's Most Efficient Organisation (MEO) to provide Information Management and Information Technology (IM/IT) services to the US Army Corps of Engineers.		55
Lockheed Martin.		74
Long-range anti-tank punch: developed to defeat tanks, long-range anti-tank guided weapons are more often used to attack bunkers, buildings and technical infrastructure.	Kemp, Ian	2961
M-346 lands at test centre.		92
Mobile gun systems genuflecting to Caesar and Stryker.		136
Muscles & brains: often overlooked when discussing unmanned vehicles are their engines and sensors, although Armada has recently visited these two aspects in past issues (1/2007 for the engines and 2/2002 for the payloads). However, since developments are going apace, this is an update on available systems.		776
NHIndustries.		56
Northrop Grumman and the US Joint Forces Command will work together on a three-year project with a view to improving the military commander's cycle of tasking the collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence information.		51
Northrop Grumman has submitted its proposal for the KC-X replacement to the KC-135 in-flight refuelling tanker.		38
Northrop Grumman.		63
Northrop Grumman.		52
Oldest town Newest Hawkeye.		153
Piranha IIIC NBC to Swiss military.		114
Planning Systems (PSI).		44
Qinetiq.		61
Radstone Embedded Computing.		53
Raytheon.		40
Raytheon.		64
Rockwell Collins.		42
Saab Aerotech.		41
Saab and Gripen International have signed a letter of agreement worth some NOK 150 million toward providing Gripen fighters to Norway.		48
Shows & exhibitions.		3502
Sikorsky.		75
Thaad's seeker is from BAE.		87
The unmanned bomber: the Ucav: for a few years now, an entirely new field of unmanned aircraft is being explored, with ups and downs. The main problem is to define the requirement, as nobody knows whether or not this category will be able to replace the traditional strike aircraft.		206
Trials end for Amundsen.		103
Twisting thrust for supermanoeuvrability: the majority of aircraft engines produce forward or reverse thrust roughly parallel to the fuselage axis. Given variable-geometry exhaust systems, combat aircraft powerplants can also generate substantial jet lift and pitching and yawing movements.	Braybrook, Roy	1895
VT Group.		43
Way to go and return! The manner in which unmanned aircraft are launched and retrieved has a major impact an the overall performance and operational flexibility of the system, in addition to dictating response and turn-round times and the likelihood of damage during recovery.	Braybrook, Roy	2080
What a range!	Braybrook, Roy	936