Keyword: Paul ‘Foo’ Kennard
![RAF CH-47 Air Load Master with M134 Minigun and door armour panel. [Crown Copyright]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Pic-3-CH-47-ALM-with-Armour-panel-Kopie-324x160.jpg "Lightweight armour for aircraft and helicopters")
Lightweight armour for aircraft and helicopters
Modern composite armour has transformed protection for helicopters by slashing weight and minimising risks...
![French helicopters operating in Mali. Shown here are the Tiger (Top), H225M (background left), and NH90 (foreground, right). [Airbus]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/French-NH90H225MTiger-in-Mali-Copyright-Airbus-Kopie-324x160.jpg "New developments in multirole helicopters")
New developments in multirole helicopters
The role of the military helicopter is evolving. New technologies and changing mission demands...
![A CH-47F Chinook helicopter releases flares during a joint Army and Air Force training exercise over Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 26, 2018. [USAF/TSgt Gregory Brook]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Photo-7-CH-47-firing-Decoy-Flares-Credit-USAF-Kopie-324x160.jpg "Countermeasures against SAMs and AAMs")
Countermeasures against SAMs and AAMs
Ever since the first operational deployment of chaff (then codenamed: ‘Window’) by the RAF...
![A German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon flies through the sky during the Exercise BAANA 2024, Ranua, Finland, on 4 September 2024. [US Army/Sgt Scyrrus Corregidor]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Eurofighter-Typhoon-BAANA_US-ArmySgt-Scyrrus-Corregidor-Kopie-324x160.jpg "How much ‘growth’ is there still in 4th-Gen fighters?")
How much ‘growth’ is there still in...
While 5th and 6th-Gen fighters grab headlines, the backbone of global air power broadly...