Air Warfare

Doodle Labs expands use of its radios on UAV systems

19th April 2024

Mesh Rider is a SWaP (Size, Weight and Power) optimised mesh radio designed for uncrewed systems and supports six frequency bands in a single transceiver and AES-256 encryption. It was developed in cooperation with the US Defense Innovation Unit.

Naval Warfare

Royal Navy welcomes mine-hunting mothership

15th April 2024

RFA Stirling Castle, a 6,000-tonne vessel, will start operations later this year.

Air Warfare

Greece goes ahead with Black Hawk order

5th April 2024

The Black Hawk helicopters will replace Greece's current fleet of multi-role helicopters.

Air Warfare

Safran continues to support UK Merlin helicopters

4th April 2024

The new engine support contract could be extended until 2040 to match the AW101 Merlin helicopter’s retirement date.

AEW&C

GlobalEye (UAE)

Programme Background The GlobalEye is a modification of Bombardier's Global 6000 jet aircraft fitted with the S-band Erieye Extended Range (ER) radar and mission system ...

OPVs

OPVs Procurement [Greece]

Programme Background Requirements According to the RFI issued in late 2022, the Hellenic Coast Guard is seeking to procure two new OPVs. The vessels are ...

ISR/special mission

MC-27J - Algeria

Programme Background Algeria has a long standing ISR aircraft requirement to support its Beech 1900 fleet comprised of six aircraft. The new ISR fleet is ...

Amphibious assault ships, Landing platform docks/dock landing ships

Landing Platform Docks [India]

Programme Background Requirements The LPD tender, although more akin to an LHD, specifies that the quartet of ships must be built within India, although collaboration ...

Landing platform docks/dock landing ships

Landing Platform Dock-Qatar

Programme Background Close to a €4 billion ($4.67 billion) contract was awarded to Fincantieri in June 2016 for the construction of seven surface vessels, including the four ...

ISR/special mission

E-6 TACAMO Recapitalisation Programme (E-XX) [USN]

Programme Background The E-6 Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) Recapitalisation Programme (E-XX) provides for air vehicle replacement and mission systems modernization to augment and eventually ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE

Anka-S (First Batch) [Turkey]

Programme Background Orders In February 2018, TAI announced that it had delivered the first Anka-S UAVs to the Turkish Air Force. In late 2018, Savunmasanay ...

OPVs

Offshore Patrol Vessels [Uruguay]

Programme Background Requirements Although no official information regarding the technical specification had been released, early rumours suggested that the Uruguayan Navy was likely to procure ...

Submarines: conventional, attack

Isaac Peral Class (S-80A Plus) [Spain]

Programme Background The S-80A SSK design for the Spanish Navy is based on the Franco-Spanish S-80 Scorpene design that both countries decided to cooperate on ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE

Anka-S [Chad]

Programme Background Hurkus Trainer Aircraft On 10 July 2023, President General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno visited an air base to inspect the country's new Hurkus trainer ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE

Anka-S (Saudi Arabia)

Programme Background Desired Procurement Saudi Arabia has reportedly been in negotiations to procure six Anka UAVs since 2013. It has not been disclosed which Anka ...

Landing craft and hovercraft

EDA-S [France]

Programme Background Following the announcement of the 14-ship contract, the DGA approved the design of the first two standard amphibious landing craft (EDA-S) in October 2019, ...

Military helicopters - multirole

S-70i (Philippines)

The Black Hawk is believed to have been the most expensive of the aircraft that had been shortlisted for the PAF project, others being the ...

Destroyers

KDDX-S [South Korea]

Programme Background Requirements During MADEX 2023, Naval News reported that there is an upcoming competition for new destroyers, namely the KDDX-S programme. According to the ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - MALE

Anka-S (Pakistan)

Programme Background 'Brotherly Ties' On 14 January 2022, the Pakistan government unveiled its first-ever National Security Policy. As reported by Shephard, the policy emphasised 'brotherly ties' with ...

Sea: commercial shipping radar

FAR-21x7

FAR-21x7 is a series of S-band and X-band radars with a 19in LCD display unit. The family consists of FAR-2117 and FAR-2127 X-band radars and ...

Sea: naval surveillance radar

DBR

The Dual Band Radar (DBR) phased-array system works in both X- and S-bands simultaneously, coordinated by a resource manager. The system performs multiple functions automatically ...

Data links

S-band TDMA Airborne Data Link

Multiple-participant airborne S-band TDMA data link with up to 400 slots/s. Transmission rate is up to 625Kb/s. As an example, a data link built for ...

Data links

CMDL

The Compact Multi-band Data Link (CMDL) operates in the Ku-, C-, L- or S-band, using both analogue and digital waveforms. It is interoperable with military ...

Land: Radio and SATCOM

THPR1055

Triad THPR1055 is a four-channel, S-Band radio system designed for long-distance uncrewed C2 and data link applications in particular.

Land: weather radar

Defender S-band Series

Magnetron- and Klystron-powered Defender S-band series weather radars are designed and engineered with an output of 850kW to 1,000kW, which the company claims is the ...

Major networking projects

TST 111/X

The TST 111/X X-band transportable satellite terminal provides voice and data communications through FDMA PAMA channels at 256kb/s (2Mb/s as an option) maximum. The outdoor ...

Data links

TIGDL-II

Tactical Interoperable Ground Data Link (TIGDL)-II is described as a transportable TDL surface terminal that supports military operations by providing a full duplex ground capability ...

Land: weather radar

Defender X200

EEC’s shorter wavelength X-band weather radar is designed to be able to detect smaller particles such as high-altitude water droplets or light snow. The size ...

Sea: naval surveillance radar, Sea: surveillance system radar

SharpEye

The SharpEye radar is available in S- and X-band configurations. In the former, the radar has a peak output power of 200W and an average ...

Data links

Naval TDMA Data Link Management Unit

The multiple-participant naval TDMA data link updates a ship’s C2 via existing radios (HF, VHF, UHF, L- and S-band) and INMARSAT. The Data Link Update ...

Sea: naval surveillance radar

EL/M-2238 STAR

EL/M-2238 Surveillance Threat Alert Radar (STAR) is an S-band, pulse-Doppler, 3D, surface and air search radar for naval platforms. The STAR has three antenna variants: ...

Air: AEW/fire control radar, Air: surveillance radar

AN/APY-1/2

The S-band AN/APY-1 radar is installed in a large rotodome above the fuselage of the Boeing KE-3A/E-3A/B Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft ...

Naval: COMINT and ELINT systems

C-Pearl-DV (S)

The C-Pearl-DV (S) is a variant of the C-Pearl system adapted for submarines by integrating an antenna array with the submarine’s ESM mast, search periscope ...

Land: air defence radar

RLS-50

OKB TSP gave its first public display of the RLS-50 3D air surveillance mobile radar at ADEX 2016, at Baku, in September 2016. Its beam ...