ISTAR

A recent number of add-on pod systems for coalition strike air platforms in Afghan and Iraqi theatres has added recon capability to aircraft not typically employed as reconnaissance platforms. This...

"Cheap for us and nasty for the Germans"- Churchill 1940 Though Churchill perhaps did not intend the above to apply to the current state of the British Royal Navy, this author’s co-optin...

It is probably a futile exercise to add to the invective that has followed the publication of David Cameron’s much-heralded and financially-driven SDSR. However, many in the broader defence c...

Within the UK, a number of systems exist that fulfil the British Army’s demanding pre-deployment training requirements. Many of these requirements relate directly to preparing ranki...

Troops in Afghanistan are being watched over by upgraded eyes in the sky, the MOD announced today. Upgraded Desert Hawks - a hand-launched, remote controlled surveillance aircraft – arri...

The major trends in UAS development in the short-term will include a switch to real production quantities and autonomous vehicles (e.g. the BAE Systems series of UAVs). More rotary-wing vehicles are a...

The U.K. MoD has decided that five ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) programmes are to be cancelled, cut back or postponed. The cuts include: Cancellatio...