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Front Cover Photo: The Republic of Korea’s armed forces are reorienting their posture to become more agile and responsive, as explained in this issue’s Changing Strategies article. 14 28 36 46 TURNING NIGHT REMOTE CHANGING WE WANT INTO DAYTIME CONTROL STRATEGIES WHAT YOU HAVE Peter Donaldson examines Gerrard Cowan profi les Stephen Miller examines the Beth Stevenson examines innovations in the optronics the latest innovations, and modernisation of the Republic the Asia-Pacifi c MALE/HALE world aiming to improve a debates, in the remote of Korea armed forces against UAV market and the domestic soldier’s vision in all light weapons system and the backdrop of peninsula development versus imported conditions. unmanned turrets domain. tensions. acquisition debate. 22 32 40 STRENGTH ON THE THINKING THE SURFACE Dr. Lee Willet examines PERSON’S SHIP the growing demand for Peter Donaldson investigates frigates and destroyers in the innovative approaches the Asia-Pacifi c region, to designing today’s, and and the factors driving such Catch up on all the latest defence radio frequency news and tomorrow’s, combat acquisitions. analysis in Thomas Withington’s regular Pulse column. management systems. | OCTOBER 2017 | 03 Index of Advertisers ADAS 39 ADEX AZERBAIJAN 35 Editorial Critical intelligence ASELSAN 27 BELL HELICOPTER 15 CST 23 DSA 43 A FOND imagery on-demand D & S THAILAND COVER 3 ELBIT COVER 2 EUROSATORY 47 FAREWELL FLIR COVER 4 GENERAL ATOMICS 13 fter four fulfi lling and happy years, your IAI 5 IDEAS 45 editor will be leaving AMR for pastures INDO DEFENCE 41 new, with this being his last edition of the MBDA 7 magazine. 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As the nature of the threat has grown more complex, so the technology of BMD has evolved to help safeguard military and civilian targets alike. by Gerrard Cowan he design and implementation of BMD systems are fuelled by the threat itself, according to a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) official: “We Tbelieve that our system should be driven by the threat, so we should always be able to provide due protection and coverage against that threat as we foresee it,” he told AMR. This focus on the threat has guided the evolution of NATO’s own BMD capability, the official said. In 2010 NATO’s membership announced its intention to develop a territorial BMD capability covering NATO’s European area.