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Military/Intelligence Bulletin 02/2020 – What is China up to?

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 02/2020 – What is China up to? China appears to be deploying unusual antenna arrays in coastal locations. Several new antenna arrays have been identified in coastal locations and they appear to be low-frequency VHF SIAR/MIMO.

They are capable of detecting aircraft which includes stealth variants. The three that have been deployed on the coast could also be used for…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 01/2020 – Russian Long Range Aviation (LRA)

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 01/2020 – Russian Long Range Aviation (LRA) What is the current capability of Russian LRA? Russian LRA was centre-stage during the final battle between government forces and anti-government militants for the Syrian city of Aleppo.

On the 17 November 2016, a force of turboprop Tupolev TU-95 ‘Bear’ bombers, supported by a flight of Ilyushin IL-78 ‘Midas’ air-to-air…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 07/2019 – MQ-9 Reaper squadron to Poland

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 07/2019 – MQ-9 Reaper squadron to Poland. The US to send 1,000 additional troops and an MQ-9 reaper squadron to Poland. In order to beef up troops in Poland and establish a forward divisional headquarters there in order to deter potential Russian aggression, the US will be stationing a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper squadron along with an additional 1,000 troops.

During a…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 06/2019 – Hypersonic and Direct Energy weapons

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 06/2019 – Hypersonic and Direct Energy weapons. The US army has plans for a hypersonic missile battery and laser mounted Strykers. The US military is planning on fielding its first hypersonic missile battery by 2023, along with a battery of Strykers equipped with 50 kW high-energy lasers by 2022.

This desire to field these new weapons is driven by the need to…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 05/2019 – Russian Lotos 120mm SPG

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 05/2019 – Russian Lotos 120mm SPG Russia presents Lotos, a self-propelled gun prototype . The Rostec corporation, Russian state-owned, presented the first prototype of the Lotos 120mm self-propelled gun based on the BDM-4M tracked infantry fighting vehicle. .

Lotos – Self-propelled gun based on the BMD-4M IFV

On the 5th June, they announced that the gun was fully…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 04/2019 – Flight test of Russian Avangard HGV

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 04/2019 – Flight test of Russian Avangard HGV. Flight test of Russian Avangard HGV. .

On the 26th December 2018, President Putin announced a flight test of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV)

Putin claimed that the HGV was launched from the Dombaroskoye missile base in the southern Ural mountains. It flew for about 6,000km, manoeuvring both vertically and…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 03/2019 – Belarus upgrades APCs

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 03/2019 – Belarus upgrades its APCs. Belarus upgrades its APCs with the new BTR-70MB1 .

The Belarusian armed forces are upgrading their fleet of armoured personnel carriers. Their current BTR-70 APCs are being modernised to the standard of the BTR-70MB1.

By the end of 2019, 32 of the BTR-70MB1s will have been delivered to the Belarusian armed forces.

This will…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 02/2019 -Spanish Army’s Pizarro combat engineer vehicle.

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 02/2019 -Spanish Army’s Pizarro combat engineer vehicle. Spanish Army’s Pizarro combat engineer vehicle ready for testing.

General Dynamics European Land Systems – Santa Barbara Sistemas is completing the first of their 36 Pizarro combat engineer vehicles.

Following trials, the vehicle is being handed over to the the Spanish Army for formal qualification. If…

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 01/2019 – Despite Brexit….Anglo-French bilateral defence…..

Military/Intelligence Bulletin 01/2019 – Despite Brexit….Anglo-French bilateral defence ….. Despite Brexit….Anglo-French bilateral defence and security remains important to both nations, as well as NATO and Europe.

So what does the Anglo-French bilateral defence and security co-operation consist of?

Systematic joint operations– Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF), set to be fully…