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Miller examines how the designs of Thomas Withington examines the Link-22 tactical Andrew White uncovers some of the latest light armoured vehicles are changing around data link, its workings and what it heralds for advances in vehicle technology to help the world. tomorrow’s naval operations. commandos reach their objectives. 32 38 FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES SEA POWER 44 THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH WHAT LIES BENEATH LAND Warfare Parachute technology is over a century old and is Warship definitions are becoming increasingly PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE being continually refined, thanks to advances in blurred due to technological advances. Are we Claire Apthorp explores some of the innovative design and manufacturing, Peter Donaldson moving towards the multipurpose combatant, asks methods being adopted for military vehicle finds out. 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Nansen’ class frigates. 4 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 5 THE PLATFORM MATTERS Special missions call for special aircraft. Gulfstream’s military service record stretches a half-century and is marked by versatility, reliability and performance. Gulfstream aircraft perform as trainers and transports, intelligence gatherers and medevac platforms. Today’s fleet is in service to nearly 40 countries, and Gulfstream provides more large-cabin business jets for special missions than any other aircraft manufacturer. Whatever your mission, Gulfstream delivers. TROY MILLER | +1 703 841 7443 | [email protected] | GULFSTREAM.COM/SPECIALMISSIONS 4 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 5 Editorial Blood Will Have Blood Her husband’s to Aleppo gone,” thus ar- cal facilities. Under the Geneva Convention: “in- ticulates one of the Witches in the first tentionally launching an attack in the knowledge act of Shakespeare’s masterpiece Macbeth. The that such attack will cause incidental loss of life northern Syrian city is mentioned several times or injury to civilians” is a war crime. by the Bard. It appears once more in Othello, and Aleppo now joins Grozny, devastated from “has the distinction of being one of the oldest the airAD during the First (1994 to 1996) and Second continually-inhabited cities in the world. (1999 to 2000) Chechen Wars. Like the aftermath Much of that city now lies in ruins. The Bat- of the air attacks on Grozny, television pictures tle of Aleppo concluded on 22nd December 2016 from Aleppo are adorned with the same evis- when forces loyal to the Syrian President Bashir cerated buildings and smouldering wreckage; a al-Assad captured the city from rebels ending a macabre trademark of Russia’s application of air battle and siege which had raged in the city since power in the urban environment. While the use 2012. Mr. Assad’s victory was helped in no small of such intense levels of force may have helped part by military assistance from the Russian achieve the Russian government’s objectives in Army and Russian Air Force. As television pic- both Syria (shoring up the support of Mr. Assad, tures relayed around the world, the level of de- and battling his opposition) and Chechnya struction that four years of war had visited upon (re-asserting Russian control over the Chechen Aleppo was palpable. Republic in southwest Russia), Moscow’s The actions of the Russian Air Force in par- actions in Syria could ultimately prove counter- ticular have been singled out for criticism. The air productive. force has been accused of indiscriminately target- Far from defeating the Islamist insurgency ing civilians by the United Nations (UN), which opposing Mr. Assad, Russia’s actions may in the in mid-November 2016 condemned air attacks on long run embolden it. The ruination visited on five Syrian hospitals. While the UN stopped short Aleppo could become a powerful recruiting ser- of apportioning blame, Human Rights Watch, a geant for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and New York-based non-governmental organisa- other extremist elements in the Middle East and tion, on 1st December 2016 accused both Russian beyond: Aleppo may yet play Banquo’s Ghost to THOMAS WITHINGTON, and Syrian forces of deliberately targeting medi- Moscow’s Macbeth. Editor 6 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 PB new ROE Asian_Military_Review_All_213x286_eng (2).pdf 1 12/6/16 3:44 PM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 6 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 armadainternational.com - february/march 2017 7 AIR POWER COST VERSUS CREDIBILITY While a maritime patrol capability is important for many countries, not all can afford aircraft than provide a full spectrum of capabilities. However, inexpensive but effective is a difficult goal to attain in what is often a multi-mission domain. Andrew Drwiega hen the British to scrap the ongoing Hawker-Siddeley/BAE in the SDSR. This appears to be a clear government announced Systems Nimrod MRA4 MPA programme, example of the need to make large savings that it was to buy nine an act which was expected to save the overriding the strategic security of the Boeing P-8A Poseidon Ministry of Defence (MOD) more than UK and the capability requirements of the Maritime Patrol Aircraft $2.4 billion over the following ten years, armed forces.” It went on to underline that W(MPA) from the United States government according to media reports.
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