UAE Upgrading Its Air Defenses With GM200 Radars

GM200 radar

In July 2013, reports announced that the United Arab Emirates had just bought 17 mobile Ground Master 200 medium range radars. The GM200 is a useful air defense radar, but all radars of this type are most useful as part of a larger network. Fortunately, the UAE has been making steady investments in that kind of network, and so the new radars will be plugging into an existing framework, rather than acting as a core to build around.

Rapid Fire July 24, 2013: Large US Primes Doing OK, So Far

• Northrop Grumman’s Q2 2013 sales [PDF] were flat at $6.3B, though their total backlog shed $3.1B from a year ago, down to $37.7B (also down sequentially vs. $39.4B at the end of the previous quarter). Aerospace sales are proving more resilient than information systems or technical services, continuing the trend from the last year or two.