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International Defence Digest NOVEMBER 2013 VOL 46 ihs.com/janes Airpower vs irregular warfare IDRexploreshowmuchofa role aviation really plays TDemo AVIATIONAHIP HOMESTATION INTERIM PACKAGE Combining Longbow Apache Tactical Engagement Simulation System, Aerial Weapon Scoring System and aircraft through-site video Reliable When neededneeded iin n thethhe h heateaat of bbattle,atttltle,e, M Meggitt’segeggigittt’ss l linklessininklklesess ammunitionammunitionon handlinghanandlinng systemssysystems ded deliverelilivever ror roundsounundsds w withiith every pullpupullll o off tth thehe trigger.trriiggggeer. High reliabilityreleliaiabibililityty makesmaakkeses t themhheem idealideal forffoor useususein in unmannedunmmaanned applications.appliccaatioonsns. 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Seamless live fire gunnery After Action Review TDemo email: [email protected] CONTENTS For further in-depth coverage go to ihs.com/janes Contents November 2013, Volume 46 Editorial Editor-in-Chief: Nick Brown Assistant Editor: Fay Brigden Features Upgrades and Unmanned Systems Editor: Huw Williams Air Desk Editor: Gareth Jennings C4ISR Reporter: Geoff Fein 38 Virtually grounded: UAS training eyes Senior Americas Reporter: Daniel Wasserbly a future in simulation Consulting Editors: Land Forces: Christopher F Foss; Naval Forces: Richard Scott; Armoured Fighting Vehicles: 42 Rising STOM: China expands R M Ogorkiewicz amphibious capabilities Chief Sub-Editor: Jonathan Maynard Deputy Chief Sub-Editors: Thomas Brown, Martin Cooper 48 Airpower challenge: applications and Sub-Editors: Jessica D’Alonzo, Karen Deans, Terry Gault, limitations in the COIN environment Susie Kornell, Dom Passantino, Clare Welton BAE Systems: 1165388 Design Head of Design: Roberto Filistad Chief Designer: Jeff Pye Departments Production 34 Director EMEA, Production Services: David Ward Production Controller: Kriss Holliday INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE DIGEST Production Services: Kevan Box, Harriet Harding, 4 Brazilian Air Force conducts first night 22 Skate UAS active in Afghanistan Wayne Sudbury flights without runway lights 24 Saab Seaeye demonstrates Advertising Senior Key Accounts Manager: 5 ISAF working to improve ANSF amid underwater vehicle developments Richard West, Tel: +44 (0) 20 3252 2292 uncertain future 25 ENICS extends Eleron family Advertising Copy and Operations Executive: Wayne Bulled, Tel: +44 (0) 20 3253 2267 26 RWUAS programme explores potential General WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT of UK maritime UAS Director, News and Analysis: James Green 6 Terminator 2 makes its debut Director, EMEA Editing and Design: Sara Morgan Group Publishing Director: Sean Howe 8 Russia’s latest BTR enters production SPECIAL REPORTS Senior Vice President IHS & 9 F-35 project seeks to overcome EW 28 Exactor, the ‘missile that never was’, Managing Director IHS Jane’s: Michael Dell Administrative Assistant: Hannah Brockwell obsolescence comes in from the cold Subscriptions 10 New chip promises iPhone encryption 32 Imperial aspirations: Nexter aims Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 160 425 1491 12 Individual soldier systems step out TITUS at export market Customer Services Europe/Middle East/Africa/Asia Pacific: Email: customer. 13 Research into pencil squids serves as 34 Fledgling Hawks: taking RAF pilot [email protected] Tel: +65 1344 328 300. 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Trade Marks: IHS Jane’s International Defense Review is a trade mark of IHS Global Limited. Registered in England under company number 00788737. Registered office: Willoughby Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 8FB UK. For more stories, log on to Printed in the UK by Warners Midlands plc. ISSN: 2048-3449. 48 IDR’s website at ihs.com/janes Periodicals postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. US Postmaster: Send address changes to Jane’s International Defence Review, Air Business Ltd., c/o Worldnet Shipping Inc., Online content is only available to online subscribers 156-15. 146th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Jamaica, NY 11434, USA. A US soldier crouches TDemobehind an AAF Mil Mi-8-17 US Navy software improves satellite ‘Hip’ helicopter in Afghani- stan. This month’s cover imagery analysis for maritime detection This publication was feature explores how much EDA progresses rapidly with ammo produced using ® of a force multiplier airpower FSC certified paper testing standards can really be for the counter- ISAF: 1487860 insurgency mission. F-35 office abandons alternative HMDS ihs.com/janes November 2013 Jane’s International Defence Review | 3 INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE DIGEST the units were operated remotely Brazilian Air Force conducts first by the ground engineers from the Ponta Pelada Airport control tower at Manaus. The Arara Squadron night flights without runway lights pilots in the C295’s cabin could also operate the SLTA from as far JANET TAPPIN COELHO The SLTA system can out as 4 km using an embedded be operated from an approaching aircraft to remote control. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) trigger an infrared bea- The signalling system includes con that helps guide has released details of its first the pilot in landing at independent units that can be clandestine flights that involved night without runway adapted to different configura- co-ordinated take-offs and lights. tions, runway lengths, and landings in the dead of night helipads. Aside from the infrared without runway lights. option, the equipment can also The exercise, Operation operate as a beacon with six ‘Green Owl II’, consisted of light intensities. training pilots in the Arara “The system is portable and FAB/Sargento Carleilson/VII COMAR: 1484750 Squadron (1st Squadron, 9th does not require cables and a Transportation Group) at The aim was to provide air crew, Renato Fontes, with the FAB’s generator, making installation Manaus Air Base to use night- who had undergone previous Aerospace Medical Institute. very fast and safe,” said Major vision goggles (NVGs) during simulation training, with opera- As the crew guided the C295 in Ricardo Rodolpho, an officer night operations. tional experience without visual to land, the NVGs illuminated the with the 7th Regional Engi- The flight crew worked with references, navigating at low SLTA infrared signalling system neering Service. The technical ground staff from the FAB’s 7th altitudes and learning how to that had been assembled on the ground
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