WWW.ROTORHUB.COM VOLUME 36 NUMBER 1 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 DEFENCE HELICOPTER Role model MH-60R modernisation in detail EYES ON THE SKY PLA PROGRESS TARGETING STRATEGIES Tracking technology Chinese helicopter programmes Missile options DH-01-17_OFC.indd 1 1/13/2017 1:34:56 PM DH-01-17_IFC.indd 2 1/13/2017 1:36:44 PM CONTENTS Editor Tony Skinner 3 EDITORIAL COMMENT FEATURE
[email protected] State of the nation 27 EYES ON THE SKY Tel: +44 (0)20 3179 2594 Widely used by commercial operators, Deputy Editor Helen Haxell 4 NEWS automatic helicopter flight tracking technology
[email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 3179 2597 • Myanmar Air Force bulks up on helicopters is increasingly emerging into the military Asia-Pacific Editor • Germany to deploy Tiger and NH90 to Mali domain. Gordon Arthur • RAF Kabul crash cause revealed
[email protected] • Thai Army puts faith in Leonardo FEATURE Staff Reporters Beth Maundrill • Serbia signs for nine H145Ms 31 TARGETING STRATEGIES
[email protected] Grant Turnbull A number of the world’s militaries are on the
[email protected] FEATURE cusp of more advanced attack capabilities as Contributors 8 MODEL MASTERPLAN their helicopter fleets adopt the latest in missile Pieter Bastiaans, Gerrard Cowan, Peter Donaldson, Jim Dorschner, The USN’s MH-60R programme is looking ahead technology. Nicholas Fiorenza, Scott R Gourley, Alexander Mladenov, Sompong to mid-life upgrades and an eventual successor Nondhasa, David Oliver, Richard Scott, to help the platform move with the times. Barry D Smith, Babak Taghvaee, Alan FEATURE Warnes, Andrew White, Jim Winchester 37 PARALLEL LINES Production and Circulation Manager FEATURE China appears to have developed two David Hurst
[email protected] 14 INDIGENOUS DRIVE helicopters simultaneously, taking both the Z-10 Tel: +44 (0)20 3179 2579 China has struggled under Western embargoes and Z-19 models into service within a short time Sub-editors to raise its rotary game and is casting off foreign of each other.