Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Using mass-production, York Space Systems plans to lower the barrier of entry to space.

Dynetics and General Atomics move to the next phase of a DARPA program to validate air launch and recovery of multiple small unmanned aircraft called Gremlins.

Militants in Iraq and Syria are adapting consumer drones and micro-UAVs for surveillance missions and deadly strikes.

New photos of the still classified U.S. Air Force’s Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle have emerged from Vandenberg AFB, California.

A major solar event knocked out telegraph service in 1859, so imagine what a direct solar storm hit on Earth would do to our wired economies today.

A propeller-driven AEW indicated by a mockup would probably need catapults, which would be hard to justify unless China plans several carriers with catapults.

The supersized Raytheon/MHI Standard Missile-3 Block 2A is on track for deployment in 2018 following a successful intercept test.

Hope that reduced integration costs will free up funding for more frequent capability upgrades is behind industry’s willingness to embrace open avionics standards and increased competition, says U.S. Air Force.

China featured four large low-frequency radars—at least one of which specifies a detection range against the F-22—along with a new, passive radar. Almaz-Antey was also on site promoting Russia’s counterstealth systems.

Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop and potentially others are gunning for the Air Force’s $7 billion J-Stars Recap program.

USAF is “aggressively” pursuing a long-range, stealthy unmanned surveillance aircraft to go places its high-altitude Lockheed Martin U-2S and Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk cannot.

UTC Aerospace Systems is expanding its MS-177 "family" to include two hyperspectral configurations with embedded autonomy.

After 10 years of development, the Navy’s $14 billion MQ-4C Triton program is preparing its fifth and sixth aircraft for deployment to Guam.

Watch video of Raytheon’s swarm-destroying high-power microwave technology, demonstrated at the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 2013. Details are now being released.

South Korean Massive Punishment and Retaliation is a plan to go after Kim Jong Un and other top North Korean leaders if they launch a nuclear attack.

In this week’s roundup: India buys Russian SAMs; Taiwan begins production of a Patriot-like air defense system; U.S. Air Force prepares to send a powerful telescope to Australia; and Malaysia gets an up-close look at Typhoon fighters.

In this week’s roundup: DigitalGlobe acquisition adds to its analysis prowess; Bangladesh buys a C295W; Raytheon wraps up risk-reduction testing on GPS III OCX; and the U.S. Army opts for a new version of the Switchblade UAV.

AeroVironment’s Blackwing lets a submarine control unmanned underwater vehicles; Lockheed Martin’s Vector Hawk launches from a UUV; and General Atomics’ Predator flies pod that extends data-link networks—UAS show potential to bridge combat domains.

AeroVironment developed its Blackwing small unmanned aircraft system to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for submerged submarines. Now the company has demonstrated how its UAS can act as a digital communications relay, enabling the sub to control a swarm of unmanned underwater vehicles.

As the U.S. Air Force presses forward with its J-Stars Recapitalization competition, a 10-aircraft Compass Call requirement has manufacturers vying for special-mission work.

Radars operating at lower frequencies is the most common approach to overcoming stealth technology. Why do they work and what are their limitations?

The first article in a series, this is a primer on stealth technology, review of the radar cross-sections of fighter aircraft and analysis of how the differences affect detection ranges against state-of-the-art threat radars.