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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.		Jun 1, 2007	2739
Less is more in the world of DAS.		Apr 1, 2006	2033
Shine on, deadly light.		Apr 1, 2006	1982
Nightingales don't sing in Grosvenor Square.		Dec 1, 2004	3674
Network-centric warfare: revolution or passing fad.		Oct 1, 2004	4566
Fuzes for mortar rounds.		Aug 1, 2004	2506
Rise of the all-weather UAV.		Apr 1, 2004	2757
Time for shifting gears? Had anyone dared predict, only a few years ago, that the main battle tank would no longer be regarded as the focal point of the mechanised armed forces in the Western World, that very same person would have been looked upon as a serious psychiatric case. The facts are clear today, though: the main battle tank market has simple plummeted.		Dec 1, 2003	326
Light armoured vehicles er, light?		Dec 1, 2003	5570
Further down the road.		Dec 1, 2003	1617
Don't touch me!		Dec 1, 2003	1587
Stealth.		Dec 1, 2003	332
Keep'em running.		Dec 1, 2003	850
Unconventional armour.		Dec 1, 2003	754
Silent spies are listening.	Cover Story	Dec 1, 2003	2771
Maintaining the night vision advantage.		Oct 1, 2003	3381
By the Doppler's sharp stare.		Oct 1, 2003	3458
Stealth--the combat 'ace': a fighter pilot is considered an 'ace' after downing five enemy aircraft. Stealth aircraft have now participated in five combat actions--Panama, the 1991 and 2003 Gulf Wars, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, so can perhaps be considered to have won 'ace' status.		Aug 1, 2003	2918
GPS proves jam resistant: type the phrase "GPS jammer" into any Internet search engine, and you'll find dozens of sites assuring you that anyone with a modest degree of hobbyist electronic construction skills can build a jammer able to disrupt the Global Positioning System, an essential navigation aid in modern combat. But as the Iraqi armed forces learned in March 2003, GPS isn't so easy to knock out. (Navigation).		Jun 1, 2003	2142
Summoning the fire. (Technology).		Feb 1, 2003	3788
Sensors, Sentry Owls and smart dust: since the summer of 2002, Sentry Owls have been helping guard US units operating in overseas locations close to Afghanistan.		Dec 1, 2002	3267
The Cots revolution. (Complete Guide).		Oct 1, 2002	11098
All-spectrum awareness: if helicopters are to fly and fight, their crews need to be aware of all potential threats--hostile radar, laser emitters and incoming missiles and projectiles. EW system houses have developed a range of warning systems priced at a level which rotary-wing operators should be able to afford. (Electronic Warfare).		Jun 1, 2002	3449
Search, find, report and (maybe) strike! Weary of dependence on assets owned by the US services (and on their willingness to share information), the leading Euro-Nato nations are now taking action to develop and procure independent means of ground surveillance and battlefield management. Rather than aiming for Nato-wide equipment commonality, the watchword now is interoperability. (Unmanned Flight).		Jun 1, 2002	4979
Landing aids for bare bases: the war in Afghanistan has seen US military aircraft having to operate from overseas bases with minimal air-traffic control or blind-landing facilities, and US personnel having to renovate airfields that had been shattered by combat operations. Luckily, rapidly deployable landing aids were available, and newer systems are in development. (In Focus).		Jun 1, 2002	2289
Shoot the messenger--with electrons; as recent military campaigns in Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Iraq have shown, the enemy's command and control facilities are an early target for attack. Front-line forces unable to receive orders and commanders unable to contact the units they command face inevitable defeat. Communications jamming is an important tool in creating this electronic `fog of war'. (Electronic Warfare).		Feb 1, 2002	3353
Data on display: the cathode-ray tube, which dominated display technology for half a century, has given way to flat-panel displays. All current flat-panel display technologies involve a degree of compromise, but new concepts leaving the laboratory promise better visual images and lower power consumption. (Technology).		Dec 1, 2001	3458
See but survive: air-defence radar: surveillance radars are the primary sensors of any modern air-defence system, but are also its most vulnerable component.		Oct 1, 2001	3242
Ground Surveillance Aircraft.		Jun 1, 2001	3756
Armies Pursue the Digital Dream.		Apr 1, 2001	4652
Vetronics for Fighting Vehicles.		Feb 1, 2001	4129
Rangefinding with Eye-safe Light.		Dec 1, 2000	4346
A look at surface-to-air missilery worldwide: covering both shipborne and land-based systems.		Aug 1, 1990	5548
Background to and applications of Navstar/GPS.		Jun 1, 1990	3936