afghanistan weather

• 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 are often on the front lines.

... the ramp and provide shade,>> Dyke Weatherington, deputy director of the US Department of Defense's... terrain over Kosovo, Macedonia and Afghanistan since its first operational flight in March 2000. ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 30 Num. 1, Février 2006

• Nations and technology getting bolder.

...) system was introduced in Afghanistan at the end of 2010 in the form of two underwing po... 66,000 ft is to take place shortly from a weather balloon, and this altitude may later be increased ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 3, Juin 2011

• Armoured trop transports.

... is currently used by French forces in Afghanistan (mostly engineers), but other potential customers ... km on the desert sand in 2010 during hot weather trials. The Nexter-owned personnel carrier version...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 4, Août 2011

• Inflatable Concrete Tent.

... harden overnight into an impregnable, weather-and fireproof shelter. These rapidly-deployable sh... Cloth for sandbag defences used in Afghanistan. . ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 3, Juin 2011

• Commanding map.

..., the US Army and Nato went to war in Afghanistan with Soviet maps, since allied military mapping ha... process real-time information such as weather or radar tracks. . Last but not least, a built-in ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 3, Juin 2011

• Europe wakens to Males.

... Industries (IAI) Heron service in Afghanistan for both the Australian and Canadian forces (each ...: it 'drills' through night and bad weather, and its moving target indicator function allows t...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 3, Juin 2010

• Practical lessons ... and remedies.

... Defense to deploy more ISR assets in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US Air Force has launched Project Li... possible in higher sea states and worse weather conditions than for manned helicopters. . Italy . ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 3, Juin 2009

• Securing the base: on 14 July 'hundreds' of insurgents attacked a temporary combat outpost in Afghanistan's Kunar province near the Pakistan border occupied by 45 members of the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team and 25 soldiers of the Afghan National Army. The attack inflicted the highest casually toll in more than three years, with nine US soldiers dead and another 15 wounded.

...* all-weather sensors that can detect intruders trying to infilt...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 5, Octobre 2008

• Nasty and fired from under.

... Challenger IIs and Bulldogs used in Afghanistan (the last contract was signed in July 2009 for ove... in which the weapon is protected from weather and dust and is reloadable from under armour. At 2...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 4, Août 2010

• Information superiority at the tip of the digital sword: Rheinmetall leverages the vast pool of proven leopard 2 tanks to promote its inochios BMS.

..., the conflicts of Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan have extended the battlegroup mission spectrum tow... phases of operations, when bad weather disrupted tactical communications, only making for...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 2, Avril 2010