Beth Stevenson

Insight: UK government’s check and balances for drones

Over the past 12 months there has been a number of incidents at various international airports where UAV sightings have halted air traffic for a ...

Norway seeks VTOL UAV for coast guard vessel testing

A tender has been issued seeking a VTOL UAV which will be used for the testing of its potential to carry out surveillance from a ...

Insight: Open skies for unmanned maritime operations?

While the maritime environment is arguably an easier one for unmanned systems to operate in due to a relatively low amount of airspace traffic and ...

European Union expands UAV maritime surveillance service providers

Elbit Systems and CEiiA have become the latest team to be contracted to provide UAV services to support the European Union (EU) in monitoring waters ...

Author

Beth is a former senior reporter for Digital Battlespace and Unmanned Vehicles magazines. Beth graduated from university in 2010, after which she completed a successful internship with Shephard Media, and became a permanent member of staff in January 2011.

In 2013 Beth became Young Aerospace Journalist of the Year.

In June 2014 Beth left to join the news team at Flight International where she fought the good fight until retiring from the RBI battlefield in early 2017 with many honours.

Beth is now a freelance contributor to a number of outlets including Shephard.

DB - Digital Battlespace

Leonardo steps up Miysis DIRCM testing, eyes more exports

15th October 2018

Leonardo’s Miysis directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) system has undergone testing by the UK Ministry of Defence in collaboration with Thales UK, demonstrating that a capability ...
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Israeli interest in RAF AWACS replacement grows

31st August 2018

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is promoting its business jet-based Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) aircraft as a new contender for an expected replacement of the ...
DB - Digital Battlespace

EO/IR Special Report: Elbit prepares As-Pac optics deliveries

25th February 2018

Elbit Systems is preparing to deliver the Condor 2 airborne sensor system for integration on an undisclosed Asia-Pacific fighter fleet next year. Under a $82 ...
DB - Digital Battlespace

EO/IR Special Report: Leonardo eyes Asia SAR market

20th February 2018

Infrared detector technology has a wide appeal in the Asia-Pacific, not least to support airborne search and rescue (SAR) operations in the aftermath of natural ...
DB - Digital Battlespace

EO/IR Special Report: Controp delivers to Vietnam Navy

15th February 2018

Electro-optic specialists Controp has completed deliveries of its iSea-40HD maritime electro-optical/infrared payload to the Vietnamese Navy under the terms of a contract announced in November 2017. ...
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EO/IR Special Report: Border concerns driving Asia EO/IR market

12th February 2018

Maritime and land border protection are key concerns the world over, although ongoing tensions between neighbouring nations in the Asia Pacific are expected to drive ...
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UK's ISR gaps to be plugged by new platforms

19th January 2018

The UK's capability to collect intelligence from airborne platforms will be affected by the impending retirement of the Sentinel R1 and Tornado, but other platforms ...
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CAE looks to miniaturise sub detection tech

3rd November 2017

The Royal Canadian Navy will assess a new miniaturised magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) system from CAE, following approval from the government. Testing of the new ...
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France pursues AWACS cockpit upgrade

21st July 2017

The French air force is set to receive a new digital cockpit upgrade for its four-strong Boeing E-3F airborne warning and control system (AWACS) fleet, ...
MTSN - Training/Simulation

360ISR training for NATO’s JISR

19th July 2017

Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) training provider 360ISR has recently completed the provision of two courses to European customers, through which the nations received an ...
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EW Europe: BriteCloud tested with Danish F-16

6th June 2017

Leonardo’s newest generation BriteCloud expendable active decoy is on track for initial deliveries by the end of 2017, having been tested for the first time ...
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EW Europe: Cyber and EW attacks converge

30th May 2017

Cyber and electronic warfare will in the future be convergent methods of attack, as adversaries take the opportunity to deploy radio frequency-induced cyber effects. While ...
SOF - Special Operations

SOFIC 2017: SOCOM radio interest

8th May 2017

Harris' newest addition in its JTAC radio family, the Falcon III RF-300H is proving to be of interest to the US Special Operations Command.The radio ...
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New IFF upgrade offer widens

21st March 2017

A new identification friend or foe (IFF) modification that will be installed on all British military platforms is being offered on the international market.If countries ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Patrollers will be delivered with PicoSAR

20th February 2017

Leonardo has announced that its PicoSAR radar will be integrated onto the French army's new Safran Patroller unmanned aerial vehicle, following an order for 14 ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Indonesia acquires V-200 system

15th February 2017

Following the delivery of one V-200 system to Indonesia at the end of 2016 manufacturer UMS Skeldar expects this to be followed up by further ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Northern Plains granted flight upgrade

20th January 2017

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the Northern Plains UAS test site in North Dakota authorisation to fly large UAVs beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS), starting ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

West Point map new drone course

13th January 2017

The US Military Academy at West Point has introduced a UAV geospatial mapping module into its cadet training, which it hopes will pave the way ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

Reliability issues threaten to scupper UAV civil applications, Schiebel says

11th June 2014

Potential of UAVs in the civil sector will not be realised until the reliability of the systems is increased to be at least on par ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

UK behind in large UAV airspace integration

11th June 2014

The recent flights of a USAF Global Hawk in UK airspace have highlighted the capability the nation has to fly aircraft of this size, as ...