Armada Analysis - Podcasts

A new authoritative report on Russia’s Western Military District gives useful insight on the air defence posture of this robustly defended region.   In our latest Armada EW Podcast we chat to defence analyst and director of Rochan Consulting Konrad Muzyka.    An expert on the Russian military, his new report entitled Russia’s Forces in the Western Military District (WMD) provides a...

Revolution is in the air in the Asia-Pacific as defence industrial sectors in the region change and adapt to new strategic realities. In our latest Armada Electronic Warfare Podcast we catch up with Tate Nurkin , non-resident senior fellow with Forward Defence at the at the Brent Scowcroft Centre for Strategy and Security of the Atlantic Council . Mr. Nurkin recently authored a publication entitle...

The ever-present threat of MANPADS attacks on civil aircraft continues to concentrate minds around the world and is the subject of our latest Armada EW podcast. Since 1978 293 people have lost their lives in during attacks on civilian aircraft executed by Man-Portable Air Defence Systems. Bird Aerosystems produces self-defence equipment designed to protect civilian and military aircraft against th...

In our latest Armada Electronic Warfare Podcast we catch up with Anthony Nigara of L3Harris to discuss how multifunction EW can help Multi-Domain Operations. Descriptions differ but broadly speaking Armada defines Multi-Domain Operations, known as ‘MDO’ in Pentagon parlance, as integrated operations with sea, land, air and space forces at the tactical, operational and strategic levels enhanced by...

The Foxbat was one of the most feared and enigmatic aircraft of the Cold War. We chat to Mike Guardia , author of the new book Foxbat Tales: The MiG-25 in Combat about the aircraft’s innovative radar. The MiG-25 (NATO reporting name Foxbat) combat aircraft first graced the skies in March 1964, entering service with the Soviet Air Force in 1970. Reaching top speeds of almost Mach Three (1,600 knots...

Armada International and Asian Military Review Editor-in-Chief Andrew Drwiega talks with Shaun Schaper, Cobham’s engineering specialist, about how an issue called rotor shadowing led Schaper to co-develop a new service called SB-Helo X-Stream, which enables satcom to operate effectively through the rotor disc of a helicopter. 

Multi Domain Operations is a phrase thrown around with abandon, but just what does it mean? We talk to Dr. Bill Conley, Mercury Systems’ chief technology officer to find out. Is MDO just a the latest series of buzzwords or a decisive paradigm shift? The US Department of Defence defines MDO as the rapid and continuous integration of all warfare domains. What does this mean for soldiers, and how is...

Space-based RF sensing and analysis is democratising thanks to the influence of the private sector, no longer solely the domain of those nations rich or ambitious enough to retain such capabilities. We talk to John Serafini, CEO of Hawkeye 360 about commercial Radio Frequency (RF) collection and RF data analytics, and hear his perspectives on how this industry is developing, its customer base, and...

David Gledhill was a navigator on the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom series fighter, and then on the RAF’s Panavia Tornado-F3 fighter. He is now an accomplished author. He shared perspectives on his new Cold War thriller Infiltration , the latest in a series of books which puts the reader in the cockpit and in the middle of the action, giving a taste of what it was like to...

Is our fixation with the latest and greatest electronic warfare technology in danger of overwhelming our need to support and nurture the human factor? In our latest Armada EW Podcast we catch up with Jim Kilgallen, president and chief executive officer of COMINT Consulting. We discuss the pitfalls that an over-reliance on the latest technologies at the expense of fostering human endeavour can brin...

Although much of the world’s attention is distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Syria’s civil war may have entered its end game. Russia and Turkey have incorporated electronic warfare as an integral part of their operations in Syria’s Idlib Government in the north of the country. Armada’s EW podcast examines the EW equipment, tactics and doctrines both sides have brought to bear in what may be the...

We are proud to present Armada’s first Electronic Warfare Podcast! We catch up with Shaun Vickers, business development manager at MASS, who shares his thoughts on the challenges facing electronic warfare practitioners regarding the suppression of enemy air defence mission.