OUTPOSTModern Warfare Technology
Drones, electronic warfare, missiles, air defence and the systems behind the operations, from analysts, defence press and open-source investigators.
New to this? Key terms for this page
- UAS
- A drone together with its ground control station and data links.
- C-UAS
- Systems that detect, track and defeat hostile drones, using radar, radio-frequency sensors, jamming, interceptors or lasers.
- Electronic warfare
- Using the radio spectrum to detect, deceive or disrupt an adversary's radars, communications and navigation, and protecting your own.
- Loitering munition
- A weapon that circles over an area until an operator or its sensors pick a target, then dives onto it. Often called a kamikaze drone.
- Hypersonic missile
- A missile that flies faster than five times the speed of sound (Mach 5). Many can also manoeuvre in flight, which makes them hard to intercept.
- IADS
- Linked radars, missiles and command systems that detect and shoot down aircraft, drones and missiles.
Giving counter-UAS operators 75 km of advance warning throws the advantage to them (opens the original article)
SkyValor says its RF detection extends counter-UAS warning range, giving operators more time to assess and respond to drone threats.
Warfare Breaking Defense
Why it mattersRF detection range can affect the time available to assess and respond to drone threats.
Sources1Breaking Defense
Kaliningrad is more than the Suwałki Gap, and NATO cannot ignore it (opens the original article)
Breaking Defense says Kaliningrad’s location challenges a neat division between frontline states and others, amid drones and long-range precision weapons.
Warfare Breaking Defense
Why it mattersKaliningrad’s location highlights the wider geographic relevance of European security planning.
Sources1Breaking Defense
Pentagon treating military base freezer malfunctions as suspected cyberattack, officials say (opens the original article)
Defense News reports that the Pentagon is treating freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at US military bases in August as a suspected hack.
Warfare Defense News
Why it mattersThe report highlights the operational relevance of investigating suspected cyber incidents affecting military-base systems.
Sources1Defense News
How Silvus Is Connecting Soldiers and Systems Across the Battlefield (opens the original article)
Silvus says tactical radios, threat detection and anti-jamming capabilities can help the Army maintain communications in contested environments.
Warfare Defense News
Why it mattersThese capabilities are relevant to maintaining battlefield communications when networks face disruption.
Sources1Defense News
Destinus’ monthly output tops Europe’s pre-war annual cruise missile production (opens the original article)
Destinus says it has built more than 1,750 Ruta cruise missiles in Europe and now makes more in a month than Europe did annually before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Warfare Defense News
Why it mattersThe reported production scale is relevant to assessments of European cruise-missile manufacturing capacity.
Sources1Defense News
US Navy wants more visible role for drone boats as one deploys for the first time (opens the original article)
A senior U.S. Navy officer described the value medium unmanned surface vessels could bring to the fleet as one deploys for the first time.
Warfare Defense News
Why it mattersThe story concerns the potential fleet role of unmanned surface vessels.
Sources1Defense News
Fairbanks Morse Defense Awarded $100M Contract to Accelerate Global Submarine Availability (opens the original article)
Fairbanks Morse Defense was awarded a $99.09 million contract to support U.S. attack and ballistic missile submarine availability into the 2030s.
Warfare Naval News
Why it mattersSubmarine availability is relevant to the operational capacity of U.S. attack and ballistic missile submarines.
Sources1Naval News
BAE Systems successfully tests Adaptable Deck Launcher (opens the original article)
BAE Systems says it successfully tested an adaptable deck launcher, describing it as a scalable missile-launching solution for U.S. Navy and allied fleets.
Warfare Naval News
Why it mattersA deck-mounted launcher may affect how fleets deploy missiles and adapt their combat capabilities.
Sources1Naval News
Keyword index
Counted from this page. Select one to filter.