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Afghanistan, American aircraft equipped with radar (that can see what's on the ground), are tailing Taliban suspects driving through remote areas. Operators in these JSTARS aircraft can track movement of ground units, or individual vehicles, over a wide area. Operators can also use the detail mode to pick out specific details of what's going on down there, like tracking the movement of vehicles fleeing the scene of a battle, or meeting with Taliban leaders. JSTARS is real good at picking up trucks moving along highways on flat terrain, but the equipment has now been tweaked to deal with the mountains...

The U.S. Navy is playing catch-up by equipping some of its F-18E fighters with IRST (Infa-Red Search & Track). The first F-18E Block IIs are entering service, carrying an IRST pod. IRST uses a high resolution infrared (heat sensing) radar to positively spot and identify a potential aerial target (using a 3-D model of the target in its computer memory.) This is similar to the ATFLIR (Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared) pods used to spot surface targets. FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared Radar) has been around since the 1980s, and as the technology became more powerful, it was possible to spot...

Earlier this month DoubleX, Slate's short-lived female-oriented publication (launched six months ago and about to be folded back into the parent site as a women's section), ran an article ringing the alarm about the dire threat posed by the power of the men's rights movement. But the article, written by New York-based freelance writer Kathryn Joyce and titled "Men's Rights' Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective," says more about the state of feminism—and journalistic bias—than it does about men's groups. Joyce's indictment is directed at a loose network of activists seeking to raise awareness and change policy on such issues as...

Novel U.K. AESA Approach Brings Benefits Nov 24, 2009 Douglas Barrie/London,Andy Nativi/Edinburgh, Scotland & Robert Wall/Dubai The results of a still mainly classified U.K. program are spurring the Defense Ministry and industry to pursue a novel design of active, electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon. The AESA design is already earmarked for the Saab Gripen NG. A Selex Galileo prototype AESA for the Gripen NG demonstrator has been installed on the aircraft. The full design includes the company’s so-called swashplate architecture that allows the angled antenna face to be rotated. This addresses coverage and performance-degradation issues encountered...

Israel, Germany to discuss missile ships By YAAKOV KATZ A German defense delegation will arrive in Israel next month for high-level talks to focus on an Israeli request to purchase two Meko-class missile ships. The delegation will be led by senior officials from the German Defense Ministry and the German Navy. Talks on the Israeli side will be led by Defense Ministry director-general Pinhas Buchris and Navy commander Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom. While the Navy has yet to finalize its order, it is working on a concept under which the 2,000-ton ship would be designed by the German company Blohm...

KIRKUK — The Iraqi Air Force (IqAF) significantly enhanced its air defense capabilities recently with the arrival of a digital air surveillance radar system. The DASR system, which includes the radar and the radar control facility, allows Iraqi air traffic controllers to monitor aircraft up to 120 nautical miles away, permitting them to detect aircraft along their borders with Syria, Turkey and Iran. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Ghani, IqAF communications director, called the arrival of the system "another historical day" for the service. "Through that system, we will identify more ... aircraft entering our sovereignty," he said at an Oct. 26...

The U.S. Air Force has hired Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems to study the possibility of integrating additional Missile Defense Agency (MDA) sensors into the U.S. Space Surveillance Network that tracks orbiting satellites, a Raytheon official said Oct. 28. The Tewksbury, Mass.-based company was awarded a $3 million contract from Air Force Space Command for a program called the Enterprise Sensing Prototype Architecture for Space Situational Awareness (ESP-SSA), Joe Chapa, Raytheon’s technical director for national theater security programs, said in an interview. The Air Force’s Space Surveillance Network employs a host of optical telescopes and radars around the world. The telescopes...

US Firm Under Probe for Radar Supply Fraud By Jung Sung-ki Staff Reporter Military prosecutors are investigating a suspicion that a major U.S. defense company sold old radar systems disguised as new ones to the South Korean Navy between 2003 and 2005, officials of the Ministry of National Defense said Thursday. The radars were installed on three 4,500-ton KDX-III destroyers, they said. "We're still checking to see if there is reasonable ground for the suspicions," a ministry spokesman said. He said the investigation began based on tip-offs that the Navy might have been defrauded in a commercial deal valued at...

South Korea will buy an advanced radar system from Israel to detect and track North Korean ballistic missiles, officials said Thursday. The Defence Acquisition Programme Administration said it would place an order soon with Israel's Elta group for its Green Pine Block-B radar system. Elta scored higher than France's Thales in a performance test in August, spokesman Kim Young-San told reporters. "If deployed here, the system will significantly improve our anti-missile defence capabilities," he said, adding it could track any ballistic missiles fired by North Korea at an early stage. The radars would be capable of monitoring ballistic missiles in...

Russia unveiled the first element of its fifth-generation Sukhoi PAK FA/T-50 fighter during the Moscow MAKS air show, with Tikhomirov's NIIP having exhibited the type's active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. The newly unveiled unit is intended for integration with Sukhoi's heavyweight fighter prototype, which air force commander Aleksandr Zelin says is due to fly in November or December. The aircraft was shown to President Vladimir Putin in its assembly phase during his May visit to the KnAAPO production plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Tikhomirov says the AESA antenna entered benchtesting in November 2008, and was mated with the radar's other blocks...

LOS ANGELES—In two separate cases, three men have been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to transport sensitive and advanced U.S. technology to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Two men were sentenced yesterday, and another man linked to one of the schemes was sentenced last week to five years in prison. William Chi-Wai Tsu, 61, a Beijing resident, was sentenced yesterday to 40 months imprisonment for his role in exporting high-tech integrated circuits with military applications to the PRC. In a separate case, Tah Wei Chao, 53, of Beijing, was sentenced yesterday to 20 months imprisonment after pleading guilty...

THE BARAK-8 is the next-generation long-range surface-to-air missile that India and Israel are currently developing as part of a co-development contract signed in 2007. The new generation Barak-8 Air and Missile Defense weapon system currently provides a complete solution to every type of airborne threat, whether that threat be from aircraft, tactical missiles, helicopters, or unmanned aerial vehicles. The system has two versions - maritime and land-based - each relying on an advanced, phased-array radar integrated with an advanced launch system containing “smart” missile interceptors, and a state-of-the-art command and control (C2) system, altogether providing full 360° coverage. Barak-8 is...

Mark Zaid was driving to a baseball game recently when a driver coming in the opposite direction flashed his lights. It was a warning: Montgomery County police had set up an enforcement zone. As a common courtesy, Zaid says, he flashed his lights back. A police officer saw it and issued him a $50 citation, telling Zaid that it was illegal in Maryland to flash headlights while driving and that he could actually be charged with something worse: "obstructing a police investigation." That officer might have picked the wrong guy to ticket: Zaid, of the District, is a lawyer who...

N. Korea may use mobile radar before long-range missile launch: source By Sam Kim SEOUL, June 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korean officials believe North Korea may deploy a mobile radar shortly before test-firing a long-range ballistic missile it is apparently assembling on its west coast, a source said Monday. Such a step would mean the North could avoid setting up radar at the base, avoiding foreign surveillance.

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Iran Launches Production of 30 Hi-Tech Military Devices The Iranian news agency Fars reports that Iran yesterday launched production of 30 important military tools and equipment, including electronic, telecommunication and radar devices. The Fars report quoted Iranian Defense Minister Brig.-Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying, "The exact and coherent planning by the defense industries, specially electronic industries of the defense ministry, in recent years caused the production of more qualitative and varied products by the defense industries of the defense ministry." "These new production lines and products are related to...

    Israel will finally deliver the first of three Phalcon AWACS (airborne warning and control systems) it had agreed to sell to India 5 years ago. Israel signed a $1.1 billion deal in 2004 to supply India with three AWACS, built on Russian Ilyushin-76 airplanes. The first AWACS developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will be delivered to India later this month, Jerusalem Post reported. The Phalcon is an all-weather system capable of logging 60 targets simultaneously and can operate to a range of up to 400 km. Israel was supposed to deliver the first AWACS to India...

Motorists will face amateur speed traps run by local volunteer groups in towns and villages across the country, it was revealed yesterday. Under rules to be sent to police forces in the new year, bands of volunteers will be supplied with speed detection equipment and asked to use it to identify drivers exceeding limits in their area. On watch: A speed trap volunteer in action whereby anyone caught going over the speed limit will be contacted later by the police The guidelines, prepared by the Association of Chief Police Officers, will set a national pattern for schemes which have been...

NEWCASTLE, Wash. – Residents in Newcastle who complain that drivers are speeding through their neighborhoods will now be able to prove it. Newcastle police are arming residents with radar guns. "We all have little kids and they're riding their bikes in the street and running around and we all get in a big hurry to get out kids here and there and not be late for appointments or whatever,” said Cheryl Coupens, one of the first people to sign up for the program. When civilians clock someone speeding, they jot down the vehicle information and pass it along to authorities....

Excerpt - The U.S. Army's European Command deployed an early-warning radar system in Israel last week along with a 120-member support team, the weekly Defense News reported. The move marks the first permanent presence in Israel of American military personnel. The high-powered radar system is meant to augment Israel's defenses against Iranian ground-to-ground missiles. According to Defense News, more than a dozen transport aircraft delivered the radar, its ancillary systems, equipment and technicians, as well as maintenance and security specialists to the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev. It has not yet been made operational. ~ snip ~

A publicly funded, world-class research institute that would develop answers to the threat posed by climate-changing greenhouse gases is being crafted in the Legislature, and is among the last-minute proposals expected to come before the Legislature in the closing days of this year's legislative session. The plan differs sharply from the original blueprint proposed by California's top utilities regulator, state Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey. Legislation encompassing the new, estimated $87 million-a-year plan is likely to be completed within a few days. At time when public attention is focused on California's $15.2 billion budget shortage, the proposed California Institute...

Compare that relatively small $2.7 million in federal aid to the $310 million originally set aside for a U.S. radar base project in the Czech Republic. It’s totally unjustified to fund unproven missile technologies and radar bases in foreign countries while U.S. roads, bridges, dams, levees and tunnels are in dire need of repair. As Czechs and Americans see U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech officials sign off on a document signaling the acceptance of the Czech government to the installation of a radar tracking system on Czech soil, there are more than a few ironies worth noting.

A 44-year-old Arizona man allegedly tried to fool the photo radars that record a vehicle's speed. It worked for a while — until the police caught up with him. Timothy Welsh allegedly used a permanent marker to change both the 3 and the 9 on his license plate to an 8, so when his vehicle got nabbed for speeding, the ticket was sent to someone else... At first, Scottsdale Sgt. Jim Butera thought it was a mistake when a Phoenix man called him complaining he had gotten two speeding tickets mailed to him, but he wasn't the one speeding. When...

The Illinois State Police are using vans with cameras and radar guns to photograph motorists and other drivers who speed through highway construction zones, and are enforcing strict penalties for alleged offenders. Citations for a first offense are $375, and a second offense can cost $1,000 and a 90-day suspension of driver’s license. State Police officials said four white vans, which are equipped with radar guns, cameras and a monitor to show drivers their speed, have been deployed at different construction zones in the state. As of Thursday, June 5, those vans are deployed at the widening project on the...

Twenty minutes into the invasion of Iraq, Marine Sgt. Nathaniel Donnelly huddled with his men in the windowless rear of an armored vehicle as it rumbled across the Iraq-Kuwait border. Former Marine Sgt. Nathaniel Donnelly (below and above, while serving in Iraq) is now a senior at SDSU, where he founded a campus veterans organization. He plans to return to the Corps, this time as an officer. The roar of artillery pounded in their ears. Anxious officers chattered over the radio.“We could hear everything, but we couldn't see anything. We had no control,� Donnelly said of the events of March...

Wind farms ‘a threat to national security’ Magnus Linklater and Dominic Kennedy Ambitious plans to meet up to a third of Britain’s energy needs from offshore wind farms are in jeopardy because the Ministry of Defence objects that the turbines interfere with its radar. The MoD has lodged last-minute objections to at least four onshore wind farms in the line of sight of its stations on the east coast because they make it impossible to spot aircraft, The Times has learnt. The same objections are likely to apply to wind turbines in the North Sea, part of the massive renewable...

Israel set to emerge India's biggest defence supplier Rahul Datta | New Delhi With the maturing of at least two major deals, Israel is likely to emerge as the biggest defence partner of India in the next fiscal. The country likely to emerge as the second biggest defence supplier is the US, whose Defence Secretary Robert Gates will pay his maiden visit to New Delhi in the last week of February to discuss further opening up of the defence sector between the two democracies. In the backdrop of proposed acquisition of weapon platforms from Israel and the US, the Government...

Parents of Windsor High student first in county to use tracking device data to fight son's speeding ticket By DEREK J. MOORE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Shaun Malone was livid when his parents installed a global positioning device in his sports car to monitor his whereabouts and how fast he drives. But now the Windsor High School junior hopes to beat a potentially expensive speeding ticket using data from the device. The case represents the first time anyone has contested a speeding ticket in Sonoma County courts using a global positioning system, which pinpoints speed and location using lightning-fast calculations and...

Czech Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova has sung a song in support of the planned construction of the U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic, which she wants to present as a gift for U.S. President George W. Bush who will arrive in Prague this evening. Parkanova told CTK that the song is to counterbalance "the tense and negative campaign accompanying the debate about the radar base." She said she would personally give the CD with the song to Bush on Tuesday during the official talks between the Czech and U.S. delegations. Bush is to discuss with top Czech politicians especially...

HEILIGENDAMM, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - The presidents of Russia and the United States agreed Thursday to cooperate on missile defense issues, and discussed the possibility of jointly using a radar installation in Azerbaijan. ... Putin offered the United States the joint use of a radar installation in Azerbaijan in an apparent attempt to ease tensions sparked by Washington's plans to deploy elements of missile shield in Europe. The meeting in Germany's Baltic resort of Heiligendamm was the leaders' first since Washington announced the planned missile shield. ... A senior U.S. official commented on the Russian proposal that it had...

AESA radar key to Block II Super Hornets By Paul Richfield March 21, 2007 Flight tests of the latest Block II variant of the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet are underway, with the next phase of development work focusing on refining the aircraft?s new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for surface searching and tracking operations. A U.S. Navy official said the Raytheon AN/APG-79 radar ? standard equipment on all new Super Hornets including the E/A-18G Growler ? will provide an ?inherent electronic attack capability? ranging from nontraditional ISR to the delivery of precision weapons controlled from multiple platforms. Speaking at...

THE United States has asked to install anti-ballistic missile radars in Japan, following North Korea's nuclear weapons test in October and missile launches in July, a report said today. US military troops and the US Department of Defense have lodged a request with Japan's Defense Agency to locate a radar in Japan aimed at counter-attacking inter-continental ballistic missiles, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported, without clarifying sources. Japan's Defense Agency, following the US approach, is considering the plan, in light of Japan-US Security Treaty, which demands "providing security of Japan and keeping peace in the Far East'' as conditions for offering...

HOUSTON - Congressman Nick Lampson, newly elected to the seat once held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, underwent a procedure Friday to open up a partially blocked blood vessel, his spokeswoman said. Doctors at Christus St. John Hospital in suburban Houston performed the angioplasty on the 61-year-old Lampson and placed a stent in the vessel. Lampson was "conscious, alert and in good spirits throughout the procedure," spokeswoman Carrie Chess said in a statement. He was expected to be discharged Saturday. His wife, Susan Lampson, drove him to the hospital Thursday night because he started feeling sick during dinner....

GREEN BAY, Wis. - A case of fowl weather really threw a local meteorologist for a loop. National Weather Service Meteorologist Tom Helman said at about sunrise Aug. 10 he saw a growing ring on the weather radar over the bay of Green Bay. "It kinda threw me for a loop. That was the morning President Bush was flying in, so I was thinking, what is that?" said Helman, who works in Ashwaubenon. Jeff Last, a warning coordination meteorologist for the weather service, said Monday he researched the ring and determined it was likely a "roost ring" - a formation...

Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the military, and disaster rescue. Eric K. Walton, senior research scientist in Ohio State's ElectroScience Laboratory, said that with further development the technology could even be used for medical imaging. He explained why using random noise makes the radar system invisible. "Almost all radio receivers in the world are designed to eliminate random noise, so that they can clearly receive the signal they're looking for," Walton said. "Radio receivers could search for this...

Australian Radar Researchers Seek New Design Wrinkles By David A. Fulghum, Aviation Week & Space Technology 06/01/2006 ADELAIDE, Australia - Slashing power use, eliminating clutter, gleaning more information from targets and convincing radars that they are something else - in size, shape and mission - are long-terms goals for Australian radar researchers. A key facility for developing future capabilities is the Defense Science and Technology Organization's Edinburgh-based microwave radar center of excellence. At the heart of DSTO's effort is the Australian Defense Force's choice of the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar on its new Wedgetail airborne early warning and...

SPRINGFIELD, MO (ANS) -- Gary Burghoff almost never gives interviews anymore. The actor, best known for his role as Cpl. “Radar” O’Reilly in both the movie and television series M*A*S*H, is 62 and long retired to private life. But in a February interview with Canadian radio talk show host Drew Marshall on Oakville, Ontario’s JOY 1250, Burghoff speaks candidly about a decision he made not long after he left M*A*S*H. “Family, to me, became the most important thing,” he says of his rationale for exiting the show that defined his career. “I was not available as a father because of...

April 2006, Vol. 89, No. 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The radar site was deep in enemy territory. The assumption was that it was impossible for attackers to climb the sheer face of the mountain. The Fall of Lima Site 85 By John T. Correll Lima Site 85 and the secret Air Force radar facility sat atop one of the highest mountains in Laos, 15 miles away from the border with North Vietnam. The site was defended by a force of 1,000 Hmong irregulars in the valley below, but a key element in its security was the mountain itself. The drop on three...

FEBRUARY 2006 India’s quest for fighter could cost losers dearly By Reuben F. Johnson / Asian Aerospace February 2006 The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) medium multirole combat aircraft (M-MRCA) tender is beginning to resemble a free-for-all that shows no signs of abating and will continue for several years. What makes this tender an unusual one, however, is that the type of radar and onboard systems which will be included in the deal, the co-production arrangements to provide work for local Indian industry and geopolitical considerations are going to carry far more weight in the decision process than the actual choice...

Beijing announced plans last week to build a high-frequency radar on the South Pole. Analysts say the radar could be used to disrupt U.S. intelligence satellites. China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica on Jan. 24. AP Photo /Xinhua, Zhang Zongtang The radar will be built at China’s Zhongshan Station, where Beijing has set up of a space environment lab. National security analysts say the South Pole site, because of its remoteness, could be used by China to develop anti-satellite lasers capable of blinding or disrupting U.S. reconnaissance satellites, most of which pass over the pole. The station will consist of 20...

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., Dec. 22, 2005 - The North American Aerospace Defense Command is observing its 50th anniversary of tracking Santa Claus on his annual rounds, NORAD officials said here. The tradition of tracking Santa began in 1955, when a local Sears, Roebuck and Co. store ran a newspaper ad urging children to make a phone call on Christmas Eve and talk to Santa Claus. As fate would have it, the phone number was misprinted and, instead of reaching Santa, youngsters found themselves talking with Air Force Col. Harry Shoup of the Continental Air Defense Command at Cheyenne...

Radar pinpoints tomb of King Edward the Confessor By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 02/12/2005) The ancient tomb of Edward the Confessor, one of the most revered of British saints, has been discovered under Westminster Abbey 1,000 years after his birth. The original burial chamber of the Anglo-Saxon king, who died in 1066, months before the invasion of William the Conqueror, was revealed by archaeologists using the latest radar technology. The existence of a number of royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th century was also discovered beneath the abbey, the venue for nearly all coronations since 1066....

City of Scottsdale illegally interferes with Photo Radar Referendum Have you ever had to go to a government office to file paper work of any type during a Legal Holiday? If you had gone, you would have noticed the doors locked and the lights off, and typically most people would not have gone because they understand that no government offices are opened. The attempts of citizens to place a question on the ballot regarding photo radar was thwarted by the city of Scottsdale and it's actions to claim that our filing deadline was Thursday the 24th which was Thanksgiving Day....

Vardø radar aided Iraq war Senior adviser Terje Wahl at the Norwegian Space Center said that the radar facility at Vardø, Finnmark in northern Norway played a key role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. Vardø's radar was used to prevent collisions between satellites over Iraq, and much of the precision bombing over Iraq was steered by satellites in fixed position over the equator. "That both commercial and military satellites could operate securely without colliding with anything was an important precondition for operations in Iraq," Wahl told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). Wahl said that the important role of Vardø has been...

Sep 23, 2005 — BAKU (Reuters) - The United States is to help its Caspian Sea ally Azerbaijan build a radar station on its border with Iran and another near Russia, a U.S. embassy official said on Friday. The Pentagon has said its aid is to help Azerbaijan's navy protect offshore oil deposits and to combat terrorism. Iran has been angered by U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan in the past. "The United States has provided funds for the construction of radar stations in Astara, on the border with Iran, and in the southern Greater Caucasus mountains, on the border with...

This month, Russia lost two jet fighters during military exercises that simulated a major war with NATO. A naval task force was deployed in the North Atlantic on a mission to intercept and destroy U.S. reinforcements heading to the European theater of war. During exercises on Sept. 5, a Su-33 jet fighter fell off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov during landing and sank. The pilot ejected and was rescued. Then on Thursday, seven Air Force jet fighters were sent from the St. Petersburg area to fly over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea to Kaliningrad....

Japan to deploy 11 new radar systems to detect ballistic missilesTOKYO, Sept. 10 KYODO The Defense Agency will upgrade its missile surveillance network by deploying 11 new radar systems by fiscal 2009 to detect possible launches of ballistic missiles from North Korea, agency officials said Saturday. The 11 are seven upgraded versions of the existing EPS-3 radar systems and four newly developed EPS-XX systems, which are both designed to detect and track ballistic missiles flying at around Mach 10 at an altitude of more than 300 kilometers, the officials said. The EPS-3 systems currently deployed in Hokkaido, Akita, Fukushima, Ishikawa,...

ACCORDING TO MEDIA reports, the Defense Department is considering canceling two supersonic jet fighters that are on the Pentagon's drawing board: the Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. There is no doubt that even with the defense budget at historical highs, the Pentagon cannot afford the $1.5 trillion worth of weapons that the military services would like to purchase. However, although the Defense Department is correct in trying to slash the F/A-22, it is dead wrong in trying to save money by canceling the Joint Strike Fighter. The F/A-22 Raptor is the most unnecessary weapon system...

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- The first Future Total Force wing, the 116th Air Control Wing, is nearing its third birthday since merging active-duty Air Force, Army and Air National Guard units to form a “blended wing.” In October 2002, America’s first total force wing took flight as the 116th ACW and made history by combining active-duty Airmen and Soldiers from the 93rd ACW, along with Georgia Air National Guardsmen from the 116th Bomb Wing. The two wings formed one cohesive unit, flying the E-8C -- the world’s only Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. The merger combined...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 21, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seeking more protection for ground forces without enhancing risk to aviators, the U.S. Air Force has engaged Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN - News), a leader in radar and data exploitation technology, to devise a way for aircraft, from a safe distance, to detect, track and target hostile forces in motion on the ground. "The U.S. owns the airspace but today's conflicts quickly move to the ground," Nick Uros, vice president for Raytheon's Advanced Concepts and Technology group, said. "We want to keep the war fighter in the air and on the ground...

China Debuts Aegis Destroyers By James C. Bussert July 2005 A coastal force extends its reach and capabilities. The People’s Liberation Army Navy recently introduced two domestically designed and built guided missile destroyers that include Aegis-type radars and related technologies. Known as Project 052C guided missile destroyers (DDGs), the ships feature Aegis-type phased array panels, vertical launch systems, long-range missiles and considerable command and control. These capabilities were not found on any previous Chinese-built DDGs. The design of a lead ship with prototype Aegis radar, combat direction links and a vertical launch system (VLS) into a small 6,600-ton hull is...