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Live and virtual environments shape the future air combat training
With just a handful of fifth-generation jet fighter aircraft models combat-ready, defence departments are already ramping up funding of R&D…
5 Nov
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Taking out drone threats: Raytheon showcases counter UAS technology
Relatively cheap to acquire and capable of missions from basic spying to carrying weapons of mass destruction, UAS pose a…
1 Nov
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Farnborough International Airshow 2018: the future of flight
Set over a few cloudy, drizzly days in the middle of a long, hot summer, some public visitors dubbed this…
4 Oct
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Agents of SHiELD – the US Air Force’s new aircraft-mounted laser weapon
Developing a compact, high-efficiency laser that can be used on a tactical fighter jet presents new challenges in terms of…
19 Feb
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A journey through space and time: the UK’s space programme
Fittingly, Dstl announced its cash boost for space programmes last October, during World Space Week. At a time when budget…
18 Jan
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Nuclear powered aircraft: Cold War fission to new-age fusion
The radioactive dust had barely settled on Hiroshima before military scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain turned their…
14 Dec
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Argentina’s Gripen deal – a threat to the Falkland Islands?
As Basil Fawlty warned, "Don’t mention the war!" But the very mention of Argentina, especially in a military context, prompts…
28 Oct
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Raising missileer morale – US Air Force to issue nuclear deterrence medal
In a quiet post-Cold War era, when seemingly futile ‘duck and cover’ civil defence advice and the wail of four-minute…
20 Oct
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Flight MH17 – could technology and intelligence have prevented tragedy?
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam in July 2014 when it was shot…
15 Oct
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VIDEO – Duke Airborne Systems RWS robotically arms helicopters in seconds
Duke Airborne Systems new Remote Weapon Station (RWS) for helicopters is based on the company’s land-proven RWS, with the…
4 Sep
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