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After many ideas and comings and goings, the VCR 8×8 program seems to be moving forward with the assignment of the contract to the TESS Defense consortium, of which Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E) is a part. The Madrid company will be in charge of the design and manufacturing of the weapons systems, starting with the Guardian 30 tower, to which we dedicate this article. A novel design, the result of the ability of EM&E's young engineers to take advantage of the design and simulation tools and the advanced machinery that they have at their disposal at their headquarters in Alcalá de Henares and that allows them to renounce techniques such as casting or welding, betting everything on high precision machining. A different solution whose characteristics we analyze in depth in the following lines. A few days ago we had the opportunity to visit both the Escribano Mechanical & Engineering factory in Alcalá de Henares, as well as the old facilities [Keep reading…]

The LISS program is the latest great innovation from the Spanish company Escribano Mechanical & Engineering. It is an autonomous and distributed drone swarm system designed to tackle very diverse missions, from ISR/ISTAR to ground attack, border control, spills or forest fires, damage assessment or location of victims of shipwrecks or natural disasters, among others. It is a pioneering project, which has the support of the DGAM and, if it really fulfills what was announced, it will be a commercial success and will mark a before and after for the Spanish defense industry. Furthermore, it will place Spain within the exclusive group of countries capable of developing this type of technologies. A select club of which no other member state of the European Union is yet a part. On more than one occasion we have referred in these pages to the "RMA of Information", born [Keep reading…]

The history of the use of lasers on the battlefield is full of disappointments and hopes that were never fully fulfilled. However, this technology has continued to develop until it has become an indispensable element for the operation of multiple systems. Beyond indirect uses, its use as a weapon has also benefited, in recent years, from notable advances, which brings the real use of lasers on the battlefield closer and closer to what science fiction and imagination of promising writers and screenwriters. Throughout this extensive article we explain not only the principles behind its operation, but also the different applications, evolution, state of the art and future possibilities of laser technology both as a key element of sensors or communications systems. , as in the form of a weapon. (Continues…) Dear reader, this article [Keep reading…]

In December 2023, the Spanish Ministry of Defense made public the award, negotiated and without publicity, of the SILAM (High Mobility Launcher System) program. The project has been awarded to the companies EXPAL and Escribano, whose work will be based on the Israeli Lynx/PULS rocket launcher. Thanks to this agreement, both companies will benefit from technological transfers, in search of industrial sovereignty. Despite this, there are several doubts that the SILAM program raises. Some related to the capacity of future launchers and their ammunition. Others with their cost. Questions that we will try to answer in this article. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

The war in Ukraine is leaving us with shocking images and incredible figures, many of them related in one way or another to the emergence of drones on the battlefield. Its massive use, given its ridiculous cost and its very high lethality, has completely disrupted the calculations of costs and benefits, putting the advantage of the spear side over the shield at the tactical level and causing paralysis at the operational and strategic levels. Although these are changes of enormous magnitude, they do not imply - as some authors claim - neither a change in the nature of war, nor a Military Revolution comparable to the one that once brought about the arrival of gunpowder in Europe. In fact, that of drones is one more of the Revolutions in Military Affairs associated - here it is correct to use this term - to which [Keep reading…]

Since the consecration of air power during the Second World War, all navies have adapted to operating with the permanent threat of attacks from the air. They have done so to the point that this need to provide a capable anti-aircraft defense has decisively influenced the design and classification of warships. Since then, this threat has only evolved, as manned attack aircraft have been joined by anti-ship missiles, either launched from the air or by other ships (as the main naval combat weapon), as well as an increasing variety of unmanned devices. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.