Desert

• Fighting in sand land: operating in the harsh climate of desert regions poses many challenges for military forces. Extreme desert climates and terrain can test both man and machine to the limit.

Severe extremes of heat, dust, sun and sand are the major challenges facing armies operating in desert regions, requiring specialist tactics, equipmen...

• Armada International
• Vol. 26 Num. 6, Décembre 2002

• A view from inside: technology once again took centre stage at the AUSA convention in October 2007. A veritable barrage of up-armoured, desert-painted vehicles, robots, drones and mules (OK, one mule) elbowed each other for floor space, whilst much was afoot in the electronics sector.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One could hardly trust one's vision with the breadth of today's new and developing technologies and equipment on display at t...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 1, Février 2008

• Bushmaster fires in the desert.

The newest member of ATK's Bushmaster Chain Gun family, the Lightweight 25 mm (LW25), underwent successful test firings at the company's facility in M...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 4, Août 2007

• Long-distance whispering: the idea of packing a radio on one's back over a desert, through a jungle or up-river in a small boat when there are so many hand-held options available reeks of sacrilege in terms of weight penalty. But the difference those few extra Watts of power make when exchanging time-critical information is viewed with not-so-well-disguised veneration.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 17 July 2008 ITT announced a teaming agreement with General Dynamics C4 Systems with a view to developing an SCA-compliant...

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

• Osprey in desert mode.

Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas was the site of recent desert environment CV-22 Osprey tests by the US Marine Corps Tiltrotor Test and Evaluation...

• Armada International
• Vol. 28 Num. 6, Décembre 2004

• C-27J tests over desert.

The Lockheed Martin/Alenia C-27J NC 4115, the first of its kind off the production line, has completed a series of tests over the Saudi Arabian desert...

• Armada International
• Vol. 25 Num. 6, Décembre 2001

• Samih Sawiris: born for business.

... for seeing potential where others only see desert or wasteland--and the sky seems to be the limit fo...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Flir Systems.

...-based radar designed specifically for desert environments. Once completed, the LSR-5000 systems...

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

• FIFA: the controversy continues: in December, FIFA's governing body surprised football fans when they looked to the east, awarding the 2018 & 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. Though FIFA executives hoped these votes would be well received, they were instead met with confusion, disappointment, and even derision from more than one quarter.

... from the 40[degrees]C-plus (104[degrees]F) desert heat. . However, Mohammed Bin Hammam, the Qatari r...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• 10th anniversary and a lot going on: celebrating its ten years of existence, this year's Idex might not have been the most thriving edition of the Abu Dhabi biennial land defence equipment exhibition in terms of legendary 'contracts of the century', but certainly was high in quality in terms of wares and developments to be discovered.

... in extreme conditions, including scorching desert heat, tropical seeping humidity levels, miserably ...

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