by Joe Katzman | May 5, 2025 | ABM, Budgets, Contracts - Awards, FOCUS Articles, IT - Software & Integration, Japan, Lockheed Martin, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Naval, Radars, Raytheon, Support Functions - Other, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation, USA
AEGIS-BMD: CG-70 launches SM-3 (click to view full) The AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System seamlessly integrates the SPY-1 radar, the MK 41 Vertical Launching System for missiles, the SM-3 Standard missile, and the ship’s command and control system, in order...
by Joe Katzman | Apr 23, 2025 | ABM, Asia - Other, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Europe - Other, FOCUS Articles, Israel, Japan, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, Other Corporation, Radars, Raytheon, USA
Patriot system The USA’s MIM-104 Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept On Target (PATRIOT) anti-air missile system offers an advanced backbone for medium-range air defense, and short-range ballistic missile defense, to America and its allies. This article covers...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 31, 2025 | Airbus, Americas, Asia, Asia - Other, BAE, Boeing, Budgets, Coastal & Littoral, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Corporation, Design Innovations, DID site, Electronics & IT, Eng. Control Systems, Expeditionary Warfare, FOCUS Articles, Force Structure, Forces - Naval, General Dynamics, Geographical Focus, IAI, Industry, Innovation, Interoperability, Israel, Issues - Political, IT - Software & Integration, L3 Communications, Lobbying, Lockheed Martin, Logistics & Support, Materials Innovations, Middle East & Africa, Military Overall, Missiles - Precision Attack, Missiles - Surface-Air, Naval Equipment, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Ordnance & Guns, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, Policy - Doctrine, Politics, Power Projection, Procurement Innovations, Project Methodologies, Projects, Protective Systems - Naval, R&D - Contracted, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Sensors - Aquatic, Surface Ships - Combat, Testing & Evaluation, Training & Exercises, Transformation, USA, UUVs & USVs, Warfare - Trends
Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge) Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy’s idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet....
by Joe Katzman | Mar 19, 2025 | Budgets, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, Delivery & Task Orders, Electronics - General, FOCUS Articles, Forces - Air, Forces - Land, General Atomics, Issues - Political, Lobbying, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, Signals Intercept, Cryptography, etc., Transformation, UAVs, USA
ER/MP, armed (click to view full) Its initial battles were fought within the Pentagon, but the US Army’s high-end UAV has made its transition to the battlefield. The ER/MP program was part of the US Army’s reinvestment of dollars from the canceled RAH-66...
by Joe Katzman | Mar 12, 2025 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Boeing, Britain/U.K., Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Europe - Other, Finmeccanica, FOCUS Articles, General Dynamics, Israel, L3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Northrop-Grumman, Official Reports, Oshkosh, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, R&D - Private, Raytheon, T&C - SAIC, Thales, USA
Ultra APV demonstrator (click to view full) In an age of non-linear warfare, where front lines are nebulous at best and non-existent at worst, one of the biggest casualties is… the concept of unprotected rear echelon vehicles, designed with the idea that...
