At the start of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine it was widely expected the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) would commence a systematic demolition of Ukrainian air defence, command and…

China developing its own teaming UCAS The Boeing Airpower Teaming System (ATS) Loyal Wingman project appears close to another milestone. As we reported in ADBR last issue, engine and taxi…

Building a post-COVID 19 defence innovation system Finding a balance between encouraging Australia’s domestic manufacturing to ensure supply chain security for critical sectors, and not violating free-trade agreements by introducing…

In September 2003, then-President of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Zemin addressed members of the secretive ‘995 Project’. For the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), he said, “the development of…

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020 demonstrated that low-cost weapons such as small UAS and loitering munitions can neutralise or significantly degrade complex anti-air defences. Putting the ethnic and geopolitical…

Why the PLA’s naval AEW&C aircraft matters – and why it will be delayed

There are questions of access and influence behind a US decision to redraw part of the MTCR

Market challengers in the burgeoning unmanned space

THE NEXT-GENERATION MISSILE PROGRAMS

Wargaming is central to military decision-making but is often undervalued.