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Opinion: Wow-worthy? Russia's Newest Airborne Radars Are a Potential Game Changer
September 05 by Keith Mallon.This year’s round of air shows left me feeling decidedly unsettled as old certainties just keep on disappearing. Take, for, instance the recent MAKS 2011, held at Zhukovsky as usual, j...
Airborne Counter-Narcotic and COIN Operations Gain a Foothold in Latin America
July 21 by Neil WaghornWith the controversial public announcement that former Mexican Presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox both support the legalisation of drugs in order to end Mexico’s protracted drug wars,...
Airborne Non-traditional ISR Lends a Hand to Modern Counter-insurgency Campaigns
June 23 by Samantha TannerNon-traditional Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance technologies are designed to respond to an increased need for accurate, real-time intel in today's counter-insurgency campaigns. Currentl...
New helmet enables Typhoon Pilots to look, lock-on and fire
January 06 by BAE SystemsIt looks like something out of Star Wars; it performs like something out of Star Wars – and for the fast-jet fighter pilots of the future – it could just make the difference between life...
The Real Transformers: Airborne Armoured Vehicles Contend for Action Hero Status
November 08 by Richard de SilvaThe US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving ahead with its research into the potential development of flying armoured vehicles to transport soldiers on the frontline by 2015....
The McChrystal Textbook: Has Afghanistan Changed the Rules of War?
November 05 by IDGA Editorial StaffThis interview with General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (retired), examines the textbook doctrines of traditional warfare. Network centric operations are a specific aspect of modern warfare that def...