The Ministry of Defense (MOD) has awarded BAE Systems a ￡870 m contract to deliver a new radar to enhance the Royal Air Force's (RAF) Typhoon fighter jet fleet and strengthen the aircraft's control of the airspace whilst providing cutting-edge electronic warfare capabilities. The contract,...
relatively small air forces repeatedly crushedincipientuprisings inSomaliland, in theAdenprotectorate, and on the northwest frontier of India. InIraq, between 1920 and 1932, the RAF exercised military control of the country with a force of eight squadrons of aircraft and two or three companies of...
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This first flight of this ECRS Mk2 prototype new radar in the test aircraft is a positive step towards ensuring this", said Air Commodore Nick Lowe, Head Capability Delivery Combat Air and Typhoon Senior Responsible Officer, Royal Air Force. "This is another landmark moment in thi...
DENVER -- The Air Force's top commander in Europe today said he wants to add new capabilities to the service's munitions stockpile, including improved radar to locate and take down small drones. Speaking to reporters here at the Air and Space Forces Association conference, Gen. James Hecker ...
19 Nov 2024 Protecting aircraft with artificial intelligence: Thales and partners selected for first European project to develop sovereign AI for embedded cyberdefence Thales is technical coordinator for the AIDA project funded by the European Commission, with CR14 in Estonia in charge of overall proje...
Fifth, Russia hasn’t managed to put an active phased array radar on its AEW aircraft because of its almost total lack of commercial electronics and microelectronics industries. Sixth, for transports, Russia continues to rely on the Il-76 while the U.S. introduced the C-17 with nearly double...
As part of the air force exercise "Pitch Black", the SUZ EF implemented the first operational software fix within just a few weeks. Safe return home After 40,000 kilometres per aircraft, 700 flying hours and more than 500 air refuellings, all six Eurofighters land safely at their ...
as seen with the plane from Malaysia. Here the radar inexplicably turned off, so that the control towers were no longer able to follow the plane’s course, and thus an accident could happen without one had any idea what happened. Aircraft radar can thus be said to be one of the most ...