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TACTICAL RADIOS AN ARMADA INTERNATIONAL COMPENDIUM SUPPLEMENT ARMADA COMPENDIUM2017 32 38 : THE TRUSTED SOURCE FOR DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS FUTURE TECHOLOGIES STIRLING TACTICAL RADIOS COMENDIUM LET THERE BE LIGHT DOCTOR AND THE MEDICS Armada’s Tactical Radios Compendium Peter Donaldson casts an eye towards innovations Andrew White examines the medical needs returns once again with Thomas Withington’s in optronics technology, with several recent of special forces troops, and the training round-up of all the important developments innovations falling under the spotlight. developments ongoing to help save their lives. witnessed in the defence communications realm over the last year. 2 . - / . - / 3 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS ON THE COVER: The need to ensure that ACCUSONIC 19 IDEAS 33 special forces soldiers receive timely medical ADAS 21 INVISIO 5 attention during their mission is examined in ADEX AZERBAIJAN 39 KADEX 49 this issue’s Doctor and the Medics article. (US DOD) ARMADA AD COVER 3 KONGSBERG 21 AR MODULAR 7 LEMO 9 ARM & SECURITY UKRAINE 47 REVISION MILITARY COVER 4 ASELSAN 5 ROSOBORONEXPORT 7 Volume 41, Issue No.5, October/November 2017 ASTRONICS 25, 15 SAAB DYNAMICS 19 Published bi-monthly by Media Transasia Ltd. ARRETT 9 SINGAPORE AIRSHOW 43 Copyright 2012 by Media Transasia Ltd. B Publishing Office: Media Transasia Ltd., 1603, 16/F, Island Place Tower, 510 King’s Road, Hong Kong BERNIER 17 STEYR MOTORS 13 Editor: Thomas Withington BITTIUM 11 SUBSCRIPTION 11 General Manager: Jakhongir Djalmetov International Marketing Manager: Roman Durksen DATRON COVER 4 WEB SITE AD 50 Digital Manager: David Siriphonphutakun Sales & Marketing Coordinator: Wajiraprakan Punyajai ELBIT COVER 2 3M PELTOR 13 Graphic Designer: Khakanaa Suwannawong Production Manager: Kanda Thanakornwongskul EUROSATORY 41 Circulation Assistant: Yupadee Seabea EXPODEFENSA 45 Chairman: J.S. 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Tel +66 2204 2370 Fax: +66 2204 2387 the most significant recent occurrences in whole is able to move forward, rather than one Email: [email protected] this field. part risking outrunning another. 4 armadainternational.com - october/november 2017 armadainternational.com - october/november 2017 5 new RCWS_armada.pdf 1 9/25/17 9:16 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 4 armadainternational.com - october/november 2017 armadainternational.com - october/november 2017 5 Editorial Ciao for Now t the beginning of September, world. For a country which has depended on soft your editor will leave the helm power as much as military might to safeguard and of Armada for new avenues in promote its interests, and those of its allies, this is the defence sector. During his a serious concern. tenure, the world has changed The retreat of any nation away from the norms Asignificantly. Russia has changed from occasion- of cooperation, engagement and multilateralism ally grumbling former great power to an outright will invariably create a vacuum for other nations rival, seeking to actively destabilise political to fill. Whether the UK will survive the Brexit pro- processes in Western democracies as a result of cess intact is a matter of debate, although it seems Kremlin paranoia vis-à-vis the imagined export inevitable that the strategic space vacated by of liberal democracy into that country. Mean- Great Britain will now be occupied by France and while, Western power has undergone a subtle Germany,AD plus a host of other European nations realignment. The United States elected a far right with coalescing political, economic and strategic demagogue with zero experience of geopolitics interests. Meanwhile, democracies such as India, who, despite campaigning on an isolationist Japan and the Republic of Korea could openly platform, is now realising that the problems pre- challenge US strategic pre-eminence in the Asia- sented by the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, the Pacific. So far, the Trump administration has Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) struck a firm tone regarding the Democratic Peo- and the People’s Republic of China, to name just ple’s Republic of Korea’s nuclear weapons ambi- three, are unsolvable without the international tions, yet concerns over the long-term reliability community. of the US as a guarantor of regional security could Meanwhile, in a fit of Imperial nostalgia, the lead to some of these nations beefing up their own United Kingdom voted to leave the European capabilities as insurance against Uncle Sam get- Union in the grossly mistaken belief that this ting cold feet. would somehow restore the ‘great power’ status The world is at its most uncertain point since which was snatched from Albion’s grasping hands the Al Qaeda attacks in Washington DC and New during the 1956 Suez Crisis. Paradoxically, voters York on 11th September 2001. The world’s armed in the UK and US believed that their democratic forces and defence industry writ large will have choices in 2016 would restore their respective na- to ensure that they are braced for further uncer- tions to greatness. Ironically they now seem cer- tainty. These will be debates which my succes- tain to do the exact opposite. The UK is arguably
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