Navies face choice questions for defense of surface combatants

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Decision-makers in the field of procurement of high-performance area air defense missile systems for naval surface combatants have a principal choice of either adopting the semi-active radar-homing guidance technology or selecting the active radar homing guidance principle. This choice is fundamental as it determines the way the missile is guided towards its target along with the associated target designation and fire-control radar and anti-air warfare (AAW) command-and-control (C2) technology.

Contracts & orders received, Facilities & equipment, Contracts & orders let, Equipment and supplies, Contracts, Contract agreement, Navy-yards and naval stations, Naval bases

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SOSTAR-X nears flight testing as it enters final phase of mission system integration

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SOSTAR-X, a scalable active electronically scanned array (AESA) airborne ground surveillance radar developed by a European industry consortium, is nearing its flight testing as it is entering the final phase of mission system integration. The SOSTAR GmbH consortium has announced that the active array antenna panels were successfully tested on June 2, 2005, and would demonstrate by 2007 advanced ground surveillance radar with AESA antenna.

Product development, Guided Missiles, Space Vehicles, Parts, Defense industry, Defence industry, Surveillance radar

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Communication weaknesses endanger allied integration in US-led air campaign

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The hugely successful US-led air campaign in the Iraq war was entirely due to precision planning combined with hi-tech execution. In a conference held to analyze the operations it was felt that all networked operations must have sufficient bandwidth to support data links and to overcome this problem, sensor platforms like the Global Hawk could be loaded.

Analysis, United States. Air Force, Technology application, Strategic aspects

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