Digital Battlespace

Norway to receive maritime surveillance satellite data from Kongsberg

10th April 2024

Norway's Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace has announced that its subsidiary Kongsberg NanoAvionics will produce three satellites and launch them in 2025.

Land Warfare

New Estonian night vision devices to help against “significantly” larger enemy

28th March 2024

Argus is a family of Mil-Spec I2 multipurpose monocular systems that can be operated handheld or head-, helmet- or weapon-mounted.

Digital Battlespace

Finding your space

12th March 2024

Digital mapping and geolocation have become critical to battlespace users, and ensuring the best content is delivered is vital.

Land Warfare

Palantir bags $178 million US Army TITAN deep sensing contract

8th March 2024

Palantir has committed to constructing 10 TITAN ground stations and deploying five basic variants on the US Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, with frontline soldier input ensuring essential capabilities have been integrated into each system.

Land Warfare

Elbit receives $600 million contract for Australian Redback IFV subsystems

26th February 2024

Hanwha Defense Australia was chosen as the preferred bidder for the Land 400 Phase 3 programme in July 2023 with contract signature for 129 Redback IFVs in November last year and includes major Elbit subsystems.

Military helicopters - light/training

AW119 Koala-Portugal

The order includes options for a further two aircraft. The helicopters will be deployed in a range of missions, including training, MEDEVAC, troop transport and ...

Military UAS - micro, Military UAS - rotary-wing

Teal 2 (Customs and Border Protection Force) [US]

Programme Background First Order Global News Wire reported that Red Cat had filled an order for 54 Teal 2 units from the US Customs and ...

APCs/IFVs - 4x4, Reconnaissance/patrol vehicles

JLTV Future Procurement (US Navy)

Programme Background According to the FY2021 budget request, the USN funded three JLTVs in FY2018, eight in FY2019, 19 in FY2020 and 25 in FY2021. ...

APCs/IFVs - 4x4, Reconnaissance/patrol vehicles

JLTV Future Procurement (US Air Force)

Programme Background According to the FY2021 USAF budget request documents, the USAF procured 103 JLTVs in FY2019, 146 in FY2020 and 142 in FY2021. The ...

ISR/special mission

King Air 350ER ISR - Kuwait

Feb 2018: The US State Department has approved an estimated $259m potential foreign military sale of King Air 350ER intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft ...

Military UAS - rotary-wing, Military UAS - tactical

ISTAR UAS project (Canada)

Programme Background Objective The Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) main significant UAV project is the RCN Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance Unmanned Aircraft System (RCN ...

APCs/IFVs - 4x4, Reconnaissance/patrol vehicles

JLTV Future Procurement (USMC)

Programme Background The USMC is expected to procure 10,859 JLTVs to replace all of its HMMWVs on a like-for-like basis. Since the USMC has already ...

Special operations vehicles

Next Generation JAGMS (First Batch)

Programme Background Programme Requirements The existence of the Next Generation JAGMS programme was first disclosed at an industry event in February 2019. Officials noted a ...

APCs/IFVs - 6x6, Special operations vehicles

Pars IV 6x6 MKKA

Programme Background The Turkish Special Forces Command is understood to have launched its MKKA programme to meet a requirement for 6x6 mine-protected vehicles. These will provide ...

Tanks

Morocco M1A1 Abrams MBT (Second Batch)

Programme Background The Moroccan Armed Forces have received substantial investment in recent years as the country seeks to maintain parity with its regional rival, Algeria. ...

Military UAS - tactical

VTOL UAV (ROKA)

Programme Background All branches of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces are placing a large emphasis on the procurement of unmanned systems to improve ISR ...

Military UAS - small

Project Land 125 Phase 4 UAV

Programme Background Under Project Land 125 Phase 4, the Australian Army plans to invest A$1 billion (US$748.14 million) between 2018 and 2030 into the acquisition ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

RQ-20B Puma (USAF)

Programme Background Requirement According to the AeroVironment Vice President and product line general manager, Trace Stevenson, the USAF Security Forces requires a small UAV to ...

OPVs

Harry DeWolf Class (AOPS) Navy [Canada]

Programme Background The Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) project for six ships is to be used for conducting a range of diverse missions worldwide. ...

APCs/IFVs - 4x4, Reconnaissance/patrol vehicles

JLTV (US Army - Second Order)

Programme Background Oshkosh was awarded a contract to produce up to 16,901 JLTVs for the US Army and USMC programmes of record in August 2015.  ...

Land: battle management systems

Delta Situational Awareness System

The Delta Situational Awareness System is a cloud-based ISTAR and battle management platform with planning, communication and fire control capabilities according to NATO standards. Developed ...

Air: Defensive Systems - Radar Warning Receivers

AN/ALQ-210 ESM/RWR

The multi-mission AN/ALQ-210 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) system provides situational awareness and threat warning with electronics intelligence (ELINT) quality measurement accuracy in complex and dense ...

Land: vehicle surveillance/target acquisition systems

LSAS

The LSAS (Local Situational Awareness System) is designed to enhance the situational awareness of armoured vehicle crews by allowing them to monitor their surroundings from ...

Air: mission management systems, Land: Radio and SATCOM

SINCGARS RBSA

Radio-Based Situational Awareness (RBSA) is a software capability within SINCGARS RT-1523 and Spearhead radios and RBCI boxes that enable them to automatically broadcast position location ...

Air: Integrated Defensive Systems

SPS-H/TA/FA

This is a family of lightweight and modular self-protection systems (SPS) for helicopter (SPS-H), transport aircraft (SPS-TA) and fighter aircraft (SPS-FA) integrates TDS-family RWR, MWS-20 ...

Air: fixed-wing flight simulators

Gyrolab GL-4000

The Gyrolab GL-4000 can accommodate the customer’s choice of a maximum G level of 6G with a mean onset rate of 1G/s and full +/-360° motion ...

Air: helicopter radar, Air: surveillance and maritime patrol radar, Air: UAS radar

SeaVue XMC

SeaVue is a maritime and overland radar system that provides surveillance for fixed-wing, helicopter, ship and land-based applications. Over 150 SeaVue radars are operational worldwide. ...

Air: Radio and SATCOM, Major networking projects

ViaSat Mobile Transceivers

ViaSat Mobile Transceivers and network are designed to provide improvements in situational awareness compared to the US Army/USMC legacy BFT system, through faster position location ...

Sea: commercial shipping radar

Synapsis Workstation

Synapsis Workstations are available as a multifunctional console with access to all nautical applications or as a standalone system for a single application only. Applications ...

Land: Radio and SATCOM

ISSAT

The Infantry Soldier Situational Awareness Tool (ISSAT) consists of an Enhanced Encrypted Personal Role Radio - which is a modified version of the current in-service ...

Air: mission management systems

INCT

IAI's Integrated Network Centric Terminal (INCT) is designed to provide helicopters with the ability to integrate new applications to meet changing helicopter mission requirements. The ...

Land: coastal surveillance radars, Sea: coastal surveillance radar

MACOS

MACOS is designed as an entry-level solution with a passive radar and a communication signal DF sensor. The combined passive antenna solution makes it unnecessary ...

Land: battlefield and ground surveillance radar

MUROS Family

The MUROS family of systems is grouped into surveillance, communication and mission control (MC) systems. MUROS surveillance systems are multi-sensor, based on radar, EO, IR ...

Air: Displays

VEMD

The Vehicle and Engine Management Display (VEMD) is a centralized Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) unit for displaying engine and airframe information to the pilot. 

Land: Radio and SATCOM

BATS-D AN/PRC-161

The ViaSat Battlefield Awareness and Targeting System - Dismounted (BATS-D) AN/PRC-161 radio fuses air and ground situational awareness in the palm of your hand. The ...