Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Tindal, in Australia’s Northern Territory, will receive $1.1 billion AUD in upgradesover the next seven years. The majority of the RAAF’s F-35A Lightning II… Continue reading "RAAF Gets Base Upgrades but Triton UAV Delayed"
Taurus GmbH has proposed integrating their KEPD 350 air-to-surface cruise missile onto the Japanese Air Self-Defence Force’s (JASDF)F-2A multirole aircraft at the DSEI Japan exhibition in Chiba, Tokyo. Scale models… Continue reading "Taurus Proposes KEPD 350 For Japan’s F-2As"
On August 1st, the US Department of Defense released its Comprehensive Selected Acquisition Report which details changes in acquisition project costs based on the FY 2020 defense budget compared to… Continue reading "DoD Orders Thousands More JASSM Cruise Missiles"
As I have written before, the balance between the primacy of the missile or the defense in the maritime battle-space is unclear at the moment. Missiles are getting smarter and… Continue reading "Behind a Tin Foil Shield: The Importance of Soft Kill Measures in Shipboard Missile Defense"
Anti-ship missiles define the modern naval battlespace. Historically there have been two schools of thought in regards to the design of anti-ship missiles (AShMs). Broadly speaking, they have been big… Continue reading "The Future Tools of Anti-Ship Warfare – are Anti-Ship Missiles Evolving?"