The UK is falling behind with Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) upgrades due to budgetary constraints, according to officials at the Boeing San Antonio maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) site.
With the NATO, French and US Air Force fleet all going through major upgrade programmes, the UK is the only fleet of the aircraft not going through an upgrade at the moment.
Despite this the fleet of six UK AWACS is not yet outdated, according to Mark Ellis, director of airborne surveillance command and control aircraft.
While UK upgrades have stalled, Boeing revealed on 20 May the second of
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The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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Defence-secure mixed reality headsets can save hours, or even weeks, of travel time to fix defunct equipment or get subject experts effectively “on-site” where they are needed.
The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
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