Forget TV fiction. Aircraft carrier radar networks are colossal engineering marvels. Take a rare look at how these giants ...

What goes on behind the scenes in the cockpit?

The primary technology that a military aircraft uses to lock and track an enemy aircraft is its onboard radar. Aircraft radars typically have two modes: search and track. In search mode, the radar ...

Aircraft facing low-visibility conditions have traditionally been dependent on ground-based navigational aids to guide them to a safe landing. Even then, there were limits on the visibility conditions ...

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 this month has raised many questions about how aircraft are tracked. One of the key means of tracking the position of aircraft is via radar, a ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday issued its latest regulatory policy statement concerning potential interference issues facing aircraft radar altimeter systems two weeks ahead of ...

Learn how US aircraft carriers navigate when aircraft radar and aircraft GPS fail, using celestial navigation, dead reckoning, and resilient backup systems in contested warzones. Pixabay, ...

Stealth aircraft in the Canadian arctic will be no match for a new quantum radar system. Researchers at the University of Waterloo are developing a new technology that promises to help radar operators ...

A white paper by the RTCA, a private-public aviation partnership that advises the Federal Aviation Administration, warns that 5G technologies could pose a “major risk…of harmful interference” to radar ...

The destruction of a US Air Force E-3 Sentry aircraft in an Iranian strike on a Saudi Arabia air base could damage US abilities to spot incoming Iranian threats at distance, analysts say. Dramatic ...

A German defense contractor claims it tracked two F-35 Joint Strike Fighters with a new type of radar system. Hensoldt says it tracked the new American jets for nearly 100 miles. While a considerable ...