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Articles in February 2006 issue of Armada International

• Falcon Watch vigilant eyes/ears.(Digest)
• First Block B Osprey lands.(Digest)
• Armaris.(Business)
• Northrop Grumman.(Business)
• ORCWS 25-30 spits fire.(Digest)
• Tiger has joined OSS.(Digest)
• Rockwell Collins.(Business)
• Lockheed Martin.(Business)
• Fire Scout over water.(Digest)
• Season's presents: the end of the year presents are part of a time immemorial tradition around the western world and the unmanned aircraft community seemed to have followed it very closely as 2005 drew to an end.(Drone Update)
  by Biass, Eric H.
• Tadiran Communications.(Business)
• NHIndustries.(Business)
• Fly-by-wire Italian bird.(Digest)
• Size does matter: the annual autumn gathering of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in October 2005 proved that the US military remains flexible in the rather fluid birth and demise of defence programmes. Many larger projects draw the obviou
• Mowag.(Business)
• General Dynamics C4 Systems.(Business)
• On track: the prototypes of two tracked infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) designs were unveiled in 2005 to meet national requirements in Germany and South Korea. Despite this the worldwide move toward the wheeled armoured fighting vehicle has gained further
• Truly Bluetooth with TruBlu.(Digest)
• Tight, cool and powerful.(Embedded Electronics)
  by Keggler, Johnny
• Saab.(Business)
• Schelde Naval Shipbuilding.(Business)
• The trend: the contest for export orders remains a fierce baffle between the 'usual suspects'--the Pandur and Piranha, bath produced by European subsidiaries of General Dynamics Land Systems--and the 'new kid on the block', the armoured modular vehicle fr
  by Kemp, Ian; Biass, Eric H.
• Indonesian tactical truck.(Digest)
• Fighter aircraft: which way to go?(Aircraft: combat)
  by Braybrook, Roy
• Thales.(Business)
• BVR Systems.(Business)
• Meteor seen on a Gripen ...(Digest)
• $ 24.6 billion in ten years.(Digest)
• Controlling drones at war: the global war on terrorism has seen the use of drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles--UAVs) by US-led coalition forces down to the platoon level. The operations of tactical drones are directed from ground control stations that ar
  by Kemp, Ian
• Northrop.(Business)
• Big deals in short.(Business)
• Another Asip tests positive.(Digest)
• Telemax is more at less.(Digest)
• A new series: Armada International is now introducing a new regular series of articles on ground robots to cater to this emerging discipline. Three reports will be devoted to this technology for 2006. Interestingly enough, Armada International started to
  by Biass, Eric H.
• Thales Underwater Systems.(Business)
• Success story.(Business)
  by Biass, Eric H.
• Iridium secure comm terminal.(Digest)
• Germany tees-off with Iris.(Digest)
• Battle sights: the use of small arms in modern military operations is characterised by the need to observe and accurately engage targets in complex situations. Soldiers using optical sights have the advantage of being able to rapidly acquire and engage ta
  by Kemp, Ian
• Thales Netherland.(Business)
• The "Hawk" gets new eyes.(Digest)
• On the Armada Bookshelf A Carrier at War.(Digest)
• Unmanned, but now armed.(Drones: armed)
  by Braybrook, Roy
• Embraer.(Business)