littoral and sea

• Up close and personal: the survival of warships in the littoral environment depends on layers of close-in defence systems to defeat both conventional and asymmetric threats.

The primary role of small and medium calibre guns has shifted to protection against asymmetric threats that are particularly acute in littoral operati...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 6, Décembre 2005

• Maritime drones--back to the future? One of the many panaceas for modern naval operations is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which offers the ship commander his own means of aerial reconnaissance over both land and sea. The UAV--or drone--is regarded as a major tool in littoral naval operations, but what is emerging is a concept that was viewed as absolete some 60 years ago.

The advantage of the UAV is that it provides a relatively low cost, expendable platform for reconnaissance, surveillance and observation. Navies first...

• Armada International
• Vol. 28 Num. 1, Février 2004

• Arrêt nº 6B 559/2010 de Cour de Droit Pénal, 9 mars 2011

... den Fluggesellschaften Sabena, LTU, Air Littoral S.A., Air Liberté S.A. und AOM Participations S.A...

• Northrop Grumman has completed initial delivery of the Integrated Combat Management System (ICMS) software and hardware to General Dynamics for integration into the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship combat system.

Northrop Grumman has completed initial delivery of the Integrated Combat Management System (ICMS) software and hardware to General Dynamics for integr...

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

• Corvettes steaming ahead: the yardstick of surface naval power was once the realm of destroyers and frigates, but this has been expanded in the post 9/11 world to include the addition of the corvette. At one time these were used only by small navies, but are now being seen even by major naval powers as multi-role platforms that are suitable for asymmetric/littoral operations.

But what is a corvette? A major problem defining warships is that designations often appear to be applied arbitrarily; at one time France's 6100-tonne...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 6, Décembre 2005

• Switch on the digitised battlespace.

..., are now confronted with the density of littoral waters, teeming with individual, commercial, secur...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 5, Octobre 2011

• Robotic speedboats, the seas' robocops? In the world of uninhabited vehicle technology, drones have stolen a march on their surface marine and ground vehicle counterparts. While the so-called unmanned underwater vehicles have been in service for years, surface robotic speedboats are making their first tentative forays onto the world's oceans.

... to develop a craft to operate from the Littoral Combat Ship.The USV is intended to provide an orga...

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

• Thales.

... awareness picture in open ocean and littoral environments. . ...

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

• MPAs at a turning point, as drones take off.

... in low-rate production for the US Navy Littoral Combat Ship. . Two of the nine Predator-Bs operate...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 6, Décembre 2010

• South Africa's defence industry: turning the corner?

... small target detection in heavy seas and littoral clutter. . Reutech Solutions' Sea Rogue weapon mou...

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