Tag: NATO
Russian Mediterranean Naval Build-Up Challenges NATO Sixth Fleet Domination
By 20 August 2008 Moscow is flexing its muscles again in the eastern Mediterranean, and aims to reactivate old cold war naval installations with...
STANAG 4586
NATO Complient Ground Control System for UAV
Compliance with STANAG 4586 allows NATO member nations to jointly support military operations using their own UAVs and...
Thales, BAE Systems to Pursue Battlefield Combat ID Opportunities
BAE Systems and Thales have formed a teaming arrangement to provide combat identification technologies for ground vehicles. Such capabilities are pursued by NATO forces...
GPS Guided Cargo Systems
Start < Page 3 of 6 > In recent years, GPS-guided ram-air parachutes render more flexibility to load drops. Since 2004, the US Marine Corps have been...
Britain to deploy Additional 1,400 Troops to Afghanistan
The British Ministry of Defense announced today (February 26, 2007) that the UK will deploy an additional force of approximately 1,400 troops to southern...
Joint Intelligence Operations Center Opens at ISAF HQ in Kabul
A Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) supporting both Afghan and Pakistani forces monitoring the Afghan-Pakistani border was opened at ISAF headquarters at Kabul, Afghanistan...
Inmarsat, ViaSat to develop Mobile Military Satellite Communications Terminal
A new joint venture co-funded by mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT) and digital communications equipment provider ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) is offering mobile satellite...
AWACS – Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft
A major upgrade for the mission systems of the first Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft operated by NATO was recently completed by...
Blue Force Tracking (BFT) Battle Management System
EADS has equipped Allied forces in the Balkans with an Interim Forces Tracking System (IFTS), which monitors the position of all units operated under...
Fratricide Preventing Activities in Modern Armies
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Fratricide Prevention activity: NATO
A four-nation Combat Identification Working Group (CIWG) has conducted field trials for its International Combat Identification...
BAMSE
SAAB designed the BAMSE to provide a complete air defense solution with all-weather, all-target capability. The missile should operate at a range of 20km,...
Ground Based Air Defense System
The British Army is planning to field the network enabled, Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) system by the year 2007, to introduce major improvement...