Articles from Armada International (June 1, 2008)

1-61 out of 61 article(s)

Title	Author	Words
5G controls via Iridium: video footage shown in a small booth at the recent DSA defence exhibition in Kuala Lumpur in April 2008 caught the visitor's eye as it conveyed a feeling of 'deja vu'. It showed uncrewed speedboats the makes of which did not correspond to the name of the company stencilled on the booth banner.		364
A star is born.		210
Aero Vodochody and Gripen International have signed a joint working agreement.		31
Alenia Aermacchi has signed a $ 13.8 million contract with the Philippine Department of National Defence to provide 18 SF-260/PAF primary training aircraft to the Philippine Air Force.		48
Axsys Technologies was awarded a $ 16.9 million follow-on order to provide dual-field-of-view infrared lenses for the US Army's common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (Crows) programme.		38
BAE Systems has received a $ 60 million order to provide thermal imaging modules to Kongsberg for its contract with the US Army's Crows II programme.		44
Bell Helicopter has received a $ 30 million contract from the US Army to begin modifications to the first of 27 OH-58D helicopters under the Kiowa Warrior Safety Enhancement Program.		39
Better bombs make cheaper missiles: in an age when many households have infrared sensors, video cameras, remotely-controlled electronic devices and cars with GPS nagivation, the idea of air forces using simple unguided bombs seems so mid-20th Century. Things are changing.	Braybrook, Roy	2652
Big deals in short.		375
Boeing has begun using its moving assembly line for final work on the US Navy's P-8A Poseidon, which will see its initial operational capability in 2013.		41
Boeing has received a $ 5.2 million, 32-month contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory to demonstrate the effectiveness of Guidance Integrated Fuzing technology for the Joint Dual Role Air Dominance Missile under the Seeker Integrated Target Endgame Sensor Programme.		48
Brains and eyes: manning a drone from the ground is easy, but on paper only. What the people behind the controls really lack is not only the pants-and-seat feeling, but also the environmental assessment. We tend to forget the incredible benefits we get from stereoscopic vision and the incredibly fast and automatic ability of the eye and brain to adjust or focus on a point of interest.	Bias, Eric H.	1393
CAE has received a $16 million contract to design and manufacture MH-60R avionics maintenance trainers for the US Navy.		39
Combat drones: the ideal of usefully sized drones that can be operated without runways or catapults, and can be recovered safely without nets or parachutes, is encouraging widespread interest in advanced helicopters and other vtol concepts.		376
Curtiss-Wright was awarded an eight million dollar contract from General Dynamics C4 Systems and Rockwell Collins to provide General Processor Modules for the Integrated Computer System (ICS) of the US Army's FCS programme.		50
Day & night observer.		107
Definitive M-346 roll-out.		126
Express Logic has joined the Eclipse Foundation.		31
First FMC is ADC510.		75
Five-tonne GFF also at Eurosat'.		166
Flir Systems has announced the reception of a Performance Based Logistics contract from the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command worth up to $ 60.5 million.		45
Forward to the point: the key to winning a ground engagement is to be found in the accurate placement of devastating firepower. Whether this firepower comes from artillery or from air strikes is arguably immaterial, what is vital is that it destroys the intended target rapidly, on first strike with minimal collateral damage and risk to friendly forces.	Withington, Thomas	3093
French taxi for Kabul: Nexter has recently opened the doors of its Roanne facilities in central France to unveil the production line of the new and very first production French Army armoured personnel carriers and command vehicles.	Biass, Eric H.	669
General Dynamics C4 Systems.		78
Harris was awarded a $20 million contract by L-3 Communications to provide products and services for a next-generation tactical video capture system for US Marine Corps locations.		35
How not to be seen.		136
Juan Carlos I launch: once she had completed her unbelievably quiet and gentle slide down the Navantia shipyard slipway and entered the waters of Ria de Ferrol, near Coruna on the northwest coast of Spain on 10 March 2008, the Juan Carlos I effectively became the Spanish Armada's largest aircraft carrier.	Biass, Eric H.	452
Lightning Helm from HISL.		125
Lockheed Martin has received a $ 2.2 billion contract from the US Department of Defense to provide six conventional take-off and landing F-35A Lightning II aircraft to the US Air Force.		60
Marshal Specialist Vehicles has delivered a second Role 2 mobile field hospital to the the Norwegian Defence Logistic Organisation five months ahead of schedule.		64
Mecar has received a contract for more than $ 11 million to deliver Nato ammunition.		30
Microturbo expands thrust.		85
Nano market is growing.		47
New-generation Gripen.		181
No crew onboard!	Withington, Thomas	3782
Non-American: in the non-American league of drone manufacturers, Israel's (who incidentally offered a stepping stone to America by supplying the first Hunters through TRW) take the lion's share, although a number of other nations have put their foot in the door, especially during the former-Yugoslavia conflict.		2730
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first National Security Cutter, the Bertholf WMSL 750, to the US Coast Guard.		39
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $ 46.1 million contract from Darpa to design a hybrid optical/RF communication network under the Optical RF Communications Adjunct project.		43
Northrop Grumman will begin production of new engines for the US Air Force's E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System fleet under a $ 300 million contract awarded in May 2008.		52
On the cover.		52
Pacstar has been selected by General Dynamics C4 Systems to resell the Sectera vIPer universal secure phone to authorised US military and government customers.		45
Premonition or logical assumption?	Biass, Eric H.	445
Raytheon has signed a $ 61 million contract with the US Navy for 68 radar upgrade kits and other spare parts for the Phalanx Close-in Weapon System.		42
Raytheon was awarded a four-year, $ 76 million contract extension to provide its Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (Afatds) to the US Army.		43
Raytheon was selected by the US Defense Information Systems Agency to provide information technology services and solutions for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies.		49
RPG beheaders.	Kemp, Ian	2883
Saab has received a $ 48 million order from the US Government to supply an unnamed quantity of Carl-Gustaf weapons and ammunition.		27
Safer 4 x 4 x necessity: the asymmetrical nature of current conflicts has sparked off a demand for a new generation of 4 x 4 armoured vehicles to protect troops from roadside explosive devices.	Kemp, Ian; Biass, Eric H.	3870
Savi was awarded a contract from the US Army Joint Munitions Command to provide a government-developed automated information system that will support depot-level ammunition logistics.		42
Sikorsky Aircraft will develop a solution to increase helicopter blade life in erosive environments, this under an $ eleven million, 42-month contract from the US Army.		49
Tactical missiles for the next war: in the remote conflicts of the 21st century, the challenge for peacekeeping and liberation forces, whether part of a coalition, a United Nations mission or neither, stems from the asymmetrical nature of the battlefield with its corollary: the need to reduce collateral damage.	Braybrook, Roy; Biass, Eric H.	2829
Target and decoys: the well-established targets produced by companies such as Meggitt Defence Systems, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Selex Galileo require no introduction.		422
Thales has subjected the first Sirius infrared search and track system for the Canadian Navy to a successful factory acceptance test at its Hengelo, Netherlands facility.		55
The hand-held uprising: tactical hand-held radios continue to enjoy quantum leaps in technology. Manufacturers are not copying each other--they are truly innovating. Today's hand-helds are not only receiving new features, but new missions as well.	Keggler, Johnny	2835
The suspension is electrifying.		90
The verticals: the ideal of usefully sized drones that can be operated without runways or catapults, and can be recovered safely without nets or parachutes, is encouraging widespread interest in advanced helicopters and other vtol concepts.		680
United States fly high: while the United States and the Soviet Union were the first to re-explore uncrewed aircraft technologies since the second world war in the 1960s, notably through Ryan and Tupolev (but with mixed results in both cases), Israel was really the first nation to turn the discipline into a viable proposition in the 1980s, before being overtaken in terms of market size by the United States.	Braybrook, Roy	4910
Utility helos with a purpose.	Braybrook, Roy	2642
Vectronix Tarsius is minimus.		257
Vehicles with a mind of the own: military autonomous vehicles, i.e. able to operate independently or semi-independently from human input, are slowly but surely coming of age. One of the most advanced examples is the Israeli G-nius and recently delivered to the eponymous armed forces.	Kemp, Ian; Biass, Eric H.	2287
Wideband is officially Global.		112