Armada International and Asian Military Review Editor-in-Chief Andrew Drwiega talks with Shaun Schaper, Cobham’s engineering specialist, about how an issue called rotor shadowing led Schaper to co-develop a new service called SB-Helo X-Stream, which enables satcom to operate effectively through the rotor disc of a helicopter. 

Multi Domain Operations is a phrase thrown around with abandon, but just what does it mean? We talk to Dr. Bill Conley, Mercury Systems’ chief technology officer to find out.

Is MDO just a the latest series of buzzwords or a decisive paradigm shift? The US Department of Defence defines MDO as the rapid and continuous integration of all warfare domains. What does this mean for soldiers, and how is MDO becoming a reality?

Space-based RF sensing and analysis is democratising thanks to the influence of the private sector, no longer solely the domain of those nations rich or ambitious enough to retain such capabilities.

We talk to John Serafini, CEO of Hawkeye 360 about commercial Radio Frequency (RF) collection and RF data analytics, and hear his perspectives on how this industry is developing, its customer base, and how these services my evolve in the future.

David Gledhill was a navigator on the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom series fighter, and then on the RAF’s Panavia Tornado-F3 fighter.

He is now an accomplished author. He shared perspectives on his new Cold War thriller Infiltration, the latest in a series of books which puts the reader in the cockpit and in the middle of the action, giving a taste of what it was like to fly these iconic RAF fighters.

Is our fixation with the latest and greatest electronic warfare technology in danger of overwhelming our need to support and nurture the human factor?

In our latest Armada EW Podcast we catch up with Jim Kilgallen, president and chief executive officer of COMINT Consulting. We discuss the pitfalls that an over-reliance on the latest technologies at the expense of fostering human endeavour can bring to the communications intelligence domain.

Although much of the world’s attention is distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Syria’s civil war may have entered its end game.

Russia and Turkey have incorporated electronic warfare as an integral part of their operations in Syria’s Idlib Government in the north of the country. Armada’s EW podcast examines the EW equipment, tactics and doctrines both sides have brought to bear in what may be the conflict’s decisive phase.

We are proud to present Armada’s first Electronic Warfare Podcast!

We catch up with Shaun Vickers, business development manager at MASS, who shares his thoughts on the challenges facing electronic warfare practitioners regarding the suppression of enemy air defence mission.