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colay1

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Very interesting technology. Haven't seen much lately about quantum computing, a possible means to confirm if DRFM jamming being applied against you. Angry Kitten is a strange name for this technology, I wonder what the story behind that is?:)

DARPA is making progress in tech that will enable the US systems to more effectively operate in a dense jamming environment. Software is becoming increasingly complex and will require the performance afforded by the new chip technoogy.

New DARPA chip could give US a leg up in electronic warfare - U.S. - Stripes


New DARPA chip could give US a leg up in electronic warfare

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Enter a new chip from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that would give the U.S. military a much needed boost when it comes to operating in a combat environment where communications and radar can be jammed by the enemy. This chip an "exceptionally high-speed analog-to-digital converter," known as an ADC would benefit U.S. equipment that operates on the electromagnetic spectrum (radios, radar, etc) by increasing the ability to process portions of the electromagnetic spectrum at a drastically higher rate than current jamming and anti-jamming equipment.

From DARPA's release on the chip:

"Today's ADCs, however, only process data within a limited portion of the spectrum at a given time. As a result, they can temporarily overlook critical information about radar, jamming, communications, and other potentially problematic EM signals. DARPA's Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program addressed this challenge by supporting the development of an ADC with a processing speed nearly ten times that of commercially available, state-of-the-art alternatives. By leveraging this increased speed, the resulting ADC can analyze data from across a much wider spectrum range, allowing DoD systems to better operate in congested spectrum bands and to more rapidly react to spectrum-based threats."
 

ngatimozart

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The Czech and Swiss are looking at leasing up to 13 Airbus A-400M from Germany as a combined lease. What is interesting is that these aircraft are the 13 that the Germans were originally going to sell, but apparently have since decided to lease instead.
 

Milne Bay

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The Czech and Swiss are looking at leasing up to 13 Airbus A-400M from Germany as a combined lease. What is interesting is that these aircraft are the 13 that the Germans were originally going to sell, but apparently have since decided to lease instead.
Yes, there is a fair bit of re-assessing going on in Germany at the moment.
The realisation that their armed forces are run down to what might be described as a parlous state, has caused a shift in attitude.
MB
 

swerve

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Offering surplus A400M to smaller allies & friends on lease could work well. They don't have to cough up big capital sums, but could get big improvements in capability.
 

John Fedup

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Airbus are looking at building the next Euro fighter aircraft. This will be interesting. :D

Airbus Hopes to Build New European Fighter Jet
It will be interesting to see what develops given the new environment. Typhoon partners U.K. and Italy are committed to the F-35 leaving Germany and France. How does France work out the workshare between Dassault and Airbus? Does Brexit eliminate UK involvement? Even if Spain and Italy were interested, both of them would be hard pressed to come up with much money. Perhaps something could be worked out with Japan, maybe even Korea given their mutual threat environment.
 

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Embraer has stated that it expects its first international KC-390 order by the end of this year. The nation undertaking the acquisition has not been identified. It was confirmed by Embraer that they had replied to the NZ FAMC RFI issued last year.
 

MrConservative

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John Fedup

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I am duplicating my post from the USN thread here is this issue affects both USN and USAF jets.

This link describes the ongoing OBOGS problems which have now spread to the F-35A. It would be interesting to see data about non-US jets. I have not seen anything articles mentioning this issue with regards to Gripen, Rafale, or Typhoon. Is this because they aren't occurring or not being made public? Do these aircraft use similar OBOGS or something different? As the link mentions, with the F-35A now in this club, there will be a huge increase in effort to get this sorted.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...s-oxygen-issues-too-a-solution-is-more-likely
 
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