Keyword: Air Defence
![Ajax testing at Bovington at the Armoured Trials and Development Unit (ATDU) in October 2024. The continuing controversy surrounding this programme exposes the dysfunctional defence procurement system that Britain has to endure. [Source: Crown copyright 2024]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ATDU-Ajax-Kopie-324x160.jpg "Letter from London: A Declining Capability")
Letter from London: A Declining Capability
It is difficult to exaggerate the current sorry state of the British Army. In...
![A Shahed 136 OWA UAV on display. Iran’s decision to add such threats into the mix for its April 2024 attacks proved less effective than it might have hoped. This was partially due to their launch increasing the warning time, but also because the air defence means to deal with Shahed tend to be much simpler than those required to deal with ballistic missiles, meaning there was no real synergy between the two to overwhelming a particular class of defensive system. [FARS Media Corporation/Behrouz Ahmadi, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Shahed_FARS-Media-CorporationBehrouz-Ahmadi-via-Wikimedia-Commons-CC-BY-4-324x160.jpg "Trade-offs in air defence system design")
Trade-offs in air defence system design
As modern warfare increasingly features overlapping missile, drone, and cruise missile threats, air defence...
MSI Unveils Details of their TERRAHAWK VSHORAD...
The Norfolk-based company MSI displayed their TERRAHAWK Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) flatbed-based...
Evaluation for Swiss Fighter and Air Defence...
The Swiss procurement authority Armasuisse has received a second set of bids from the...