Exelis Inc. and Chronos Technology Ltd. have successfully tested a new GPS threat-detection system designed to identify and locate sources of jamming. The Signal Sentry 1000 system was deployed in August during GPS-interference trials that took place in Sennybridge, U.K., with the product locating stationary and moving jammers in both open and obstructed environments.
Even though U.S. missions are shifting with the drawdown in Afghanistan to air strikes in Iraq and Syria, the practice of using wartime funding to pay for long-term projects remains in vogue.
The Russian air force has become the first signatory to the Open Skies Treaty to use digital cameras on its reconnaissance aircraft. Details of the first wholly digital Open Skies flight missions were revealed in a recent edition of RAF Brize Norton’s station magazine. The air base in Oxfordshire acts as the main operating location for all Open Skies treaty flights undertaken in the U.K. From Aug. 11-15, the base played host to an Antonov An-30 used by the Russian Federation for its Open Skies mission, fitted with a digital camera suite.
The U.S. should develop a better amphibious-ship strategy to deal with fleet shortfalls, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says. “The most serious challenge for future U.S. amphibious capabilities is the lack of a common, comprehensive, and systems-based strategy to serve as a guide for difficult choices,” CSIS says in a released earlier this month.
