DefenceTalkDefence and security company Saab extends its surface radar portfolio, with the introduction of five all-new complementary Giraffe radars for land and sea. This strengthens the current product offering but also takes the Giraffe firmly into the long-range air surveillance domain and puts an entirely new capability onto the market. Saab’s combat-proven and highly-regarded surface […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saab-launches-five-new-radars-for-total-air-domain-awareness-59556/

DefenceTalkNorthrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) will help bring advanced capabilities to existing global F-16 fleets, keeping them formidable beyond 2025, according to the head of the company’s Combat Avionics Systems business unit. Northrop Grumman Vice President Jeff Leavitt provided a detailed SABR update to reporters in a briefing at the Singapore Air Show. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/scalable-agile-beam-radar-brings-advanced-capabilities-to-global-f-16-fleets-58823/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company has signed a contract with BAE Systems in support of upgrading the Republic of Korea’s fleet of more than 130 KF-16C/D Block 52 aircraft. As a key subcontractor to BAE Systems, the company will provide an integrated solution that includes the Raytheon Advanced Combat Radar (RACR), ALR-69A all-digital radar warning receiver, advanced mission […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-secures-first-international-customer-for-its-f-16-racr-aesa-radar-50202/

DefenceTalkThales UK today announced that it has signed a contract worth over £100 million with the Indonesian Ministry of Defence for ForceSHIELD, Thales’s integrated Advanced Air Defence system. In addition to the supply of STARStreak short-range air defence missiles, the system comprises CONTROLMaster200 radar and weapon coordination systems, RAPIDRanger mobile weapon systems and Lightweight Multiple […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indonesia-orders-forceshield-integrated-air-defence-system-and-starstreak-missiles-50116/

DefenceTalkRaytheon has received a resume work order from the U.S. Navy to commence development of the new Air and Missile Defense Radar. The order followed the official Government Accountability Office update of its database to reflect the status of the AMDR contract award protest as withdrawn. On October 10, 2013, Raytheon was awarded a $385,742,176 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-resumes-work-on-us-navy-air-and-missile-defense-radar-50102/

DefenceTalkCassidian’s new radar for the German Navy’s F125 class frigates has demonstrated its particular reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities during tests in the North Sea and Baltic Sea and during factory acceptance tests. In two test series of several weeks, the TRS-4D naval radar showed an extraordinarily high precision, particularly when detecting small targets such as […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-trs-4d-naval-radar-for-german-f125-frigates-49961/

DefenceTalkRussia has begun testing a new radar designed to detect highly maneuverable aerial targets – including cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles – at a range of up to 3,000 kilometers (over 1,800 miles), allowing it to cover most of Europe. The new-generation over-the-horizon radar, dubbed Container, was put on trial duty near the town […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-activates-aerospace-defense-radar-aimed-at-europe-49873/

DefenceTalkToday Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company, celebrated the delivery of the 400th GRIFO radar, which is to be used by the Brazilian Air Force. The company, based out of the Lombard Aerospace District, marked the occasion with a ceremony at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, in Milan, Italy. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/brazilian-air-force-takes-delivery-of-400th-grifo-radar-49824/

DefenceTalkNorthrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the Royal Thai Air Force to supply additional AN/TPS-78 air defense and surveillance radar systems. Under the terms of the contract, Northrop Grumman will begin supplying equipment to the Royal Thai Air Force in 2015. The company will also provide training, spares and logistics support. “With this award, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/northrop-to-supply-air-defense-radar-systems-to-royal-thai-air-force-49752/

DefenceTalkThe new AESA radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon is entering the system integration phase. During a 4-national program review at Cassidian’s Ulm site the test and integration results of the “Captor-E” Antenna subsystem were successfully presented to the representatives of the 4 Eurofighter core nations UK, Italy, Spain and Germany. The test results achieved during […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eurofighter-typhoons-new-aesa-radar-starts-system-integration-49653/