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Articles in June 2002 issue of Armada International

• The Middle East: the six monarchies of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have around 45 per cent of the known oil reserves in the world. (Complete Guide).
• Up & over with the LSB. (Digest).
• A disorienting situation afoot. (Digest).
• Russian defence industry--a force to be reckoned with. (Defence Industry Report).
  by Biass, Eric H.
• Hagglunds Vehicle. (News).
• Denel and Turbomeca. (News).
• Russia and Eastern Europe: if defence exports are becoming more important in Western Europe, they are vital in Russia. Over the course of little more than a decade, Russia has had to cope with the loss of superpower status, a massive decline in the number
• Fly by night with M949. (Digest).
• StepZoom for razor sharp. (Digest).
• Search, find, report and (maybe) strike! Weary of dependence on assets owned by the US services (and on their willingness to share information), the leading Euro-Nato nations are now taking action to develop and procure independent means of ground surveil
  by Richardson, Doug
• Ball Aerospace. (News).
• Radamec. (News).
• Europe's industrial picture: as in the US, industrial consolidation has become the game plan in Europe. What we have seen is the rise of a number of companies that can now truly compete on a global scale. (Complete Guide).
• SeaSparrow's seaborne attack. (Digest).
• Pilatus on a roll. (Digest).
• New tanks from old: part 1: hull and chassis: bringing older main battle tanks up to a level approaching the latest models is not only possible, but often the only affordable way forward for many armies. Modernisation of, or upgrades to tanks and other ar
  by Maxwell, David
• Northrop Grumman. (News).
• Raytheon. (News).
• Harris. (News).
• The European scene: although the European Union (EU) and its member states might see `Euroland' as a potential political and economic superpower, this remains only a dream in a defence context. There is very little support for increasing defence expenditu
• M60 turned Magach 7. (Digest).
• Iris-T tags target drone. (Digest).
• Is Helo crew training meeting today's demands? Operation Enduring Freedom has seen most fixed-wing aircraft deployed to combat areas only at heights judged to be beyond the range of surface-to-air missiles. Helicopters however can only avoid enemy weapons
  by Walters, Brian
• BAE Systems received a contract from the British Defence Procurement Agency for the lease of three newly designed transportable satellite communications terminals. (News).
• Firearms Training Systems. (News).
• Ultra Electronics'. (News).
• The US industrial perspective: rotary-wing aircraft now in the development phase will introduce a wide range of advances to improve aerodynamic performance while reducing pilot workload, empty weight, vibration, detectability and maintenance costs. Dramat
• U31 by any other name. (Digest).
• Letting the bats fly. (Digest).
• Rotary wings for a new millennium: new-generation helicopters will feature varying degrees of low observable technology while the latest structural materials make possible significant advances in weight, aircrew workload reduction and fatigue life. This a
  by Braybrook, Roy
• CAE and Boeing. (News).
• Lockheed Martin. (News).
• Oerlikon Contraves. (News).
• Many requirements, little structure. (Complete Guide).
  by Saw, David
• Combining two realities. (Digest).
• The Horizon on the Horizon. (Digest).
• All-spectrum awareness: if helicopters are to fly and fight, their crews need to be aware of all potential threats--hostile radar, laser emitters and incoming missiles and projectiles. EW system houses have developed a range of warning systems priced at a
  by Richardson, Doug
• DRS Technologies. (News).
• Eads/Dornier. (News).
• PLX. (News).
• Looking at markets--combat aircraft: the view now shifts to a particular market area in the shape of combat aircraft and, as has already been seen, there are a number of major combat aircraft acquisition programmes in progress around the world. (Complete
• Sea Slice makes the cut. (Digest).
• Raptor 4009 gets a home. (Digest).
• The Asian Aerospace beehive. (Shows & Exhibition).
  by Biass, Eric H.
• US employs broad array of equipment: recent military operations in Afghanistan have served to highlight the amazingly broad array of weapon systems and support equipment used by US special operations and conventional military forces.
  by Gourley, Scott R.
• BAE Systems. (News).
• Big deals in short. (News).
• Latin America's market: the recent economic chaos in Argentina and the ongoing guerrilla war in Colombia illustrate that Latin America remains a problematic area of the world. Despite all this, it still has tremendous economic potential and conditions sho
• The DSP-5000 Fibre-optic Gyro (Fog) from KVH accepts data input as fast as 500 degrees per second and offers consistent accuracy over time and temperature. (Digest).
• When wires get crossed. (Digest).
• Landing aids for bare bases: the war in Afghanistan has seen US military aircraft having to operate from overseas bases with minimal air-traffic control or blind-landing facilities, and US personnel having to renovate airfields that had been shattered by
  by Richardson, Doug
• Raytheon has been awarded a $14 million contract from the US Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office at the Army Research Laboratory to more than double the computational capability of the laboratory's high performance comput
• ATM ComputerSysteme. (News).
• The Asian perspective: Asia continues to offer an example of a growing defence market, despite the fact that many of the major nations are still emerging from economic recession. (Complete Guide).
• So who's driving then? (Digest).
• The World's Fastest Tank. (Digest).
• A decade of opportunities. (Airborne Warfare).
  by Braybrook, Roy
• Sypris Electronics. (News).
• Sectra. (News).
• Africa: political and economic problems in sub-Saharan Africa have created an increasingly awkward defence market. Conflicts and insurgencies encourage high defence spending, but international pressure is seeking to reduce these conflicts. (Complete Guide
• Corrigendum.
• The right place to be. (Digest).
• New breath T-72 genuine upgrade package.
• Thales Raytheon Systems. (News).
• Raytheon Aircraft. (News).