Articles by Carlos D. González

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…]

Tracking friendly and enemy missiles in flight poses numerous technical problems, taking those in charge of developing the aircraft and ships in charge of this mission, on many occasions, to the limits of engineering. An effort in which, however, the main powers have not stopped committing efforts in recent decades, designing devices capable of collecting, with extreme precision, data on the trajectory or speed, among many others, regardless of whether it is cruise or ballistic missiles. Data, in all cases, extremely valuable when preparing the defense and developing own vectors. There are therefore more than enough reasons to dedicate this extensive article to missile tracking. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Revista Ejercitos taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the [Keep reading…]

Both the Navy and the Air and Space Army have been improving - at a slower speed than desired - their anti-submarine warfare capabilities in recent years. However, there is still some time for these to be consolidated: the first example of the S-80 Plus class must face a tough year of testing with the Navy; The Air and Space Army must wait until 2027 to begin receiving the C295; In the section of aerial drones, the pending work is more than notable; the lack of unmanned underwater vehicles is equally evident... Despite this, now that the future is reasonably promising from a budgetary point of view, Spain is finally in a position to recover all the lost capabilities and, in addition, to provide itself with other new. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. [Keep reading…]

The maritime patrol is experiencing its lowest hours in Spain. With the decommissioning of the last Lockheed P.3M, a capability is lost that a country in our position and with our maritime responsibilities cannot and should not neglect. Regardless of the replacement for the Group 22 devices, the Spanish defense industry has dozens of companies capable of collaborating in their design and manufacturing, as we will explain throughout the article. A golden opportunity, whatever the platform chosen, to involve the industry and preserve our "strategic autonomy" in an area that is crucial to us. (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.

Since the invention of ships and their use in wars, it has always been vitally important to know the position and size of the enemy fleet. With the appearance of the submarine, it was necessary to develop novel methods capable of counteracting its effectiveness. Since electromagnetic waves (radar) transmit very poorly in an aqueous medium, mechanical waves (sound) were used as a means of detecting and locating these devices. So much so that for 70 years the main tool for anti-submarine search has been sonar [1]. Since then, Underwater Acoustic Detection has only been perfected, making systems such as the SOSUS network or ocean surveillance vessels widespread, all of which are topics that we will discuss in the following lines. (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 [Keep reading…]

In recent years, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is regaining prominence from the hottest years of the Cold War. Although the medium has barely changed, technology has evolved in an unimaginable way in recent times. So much so that submarines are increasingly quieter (emitting less noise than the environment), more powerful, more acoustically capable and can remain sheltered from the depths for longer thanks to anaerobic propulsion (also known as AIP). This, together with the proliferation of underwater drones and the fact that access to submarines is increasingly cheaper, and, therefore, more navies have them, has caused maritime patrol to regain the interest that it should never have lost. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, [Keep reading…]

That of the European Maritime Patrol is a thorny issue. In the years immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, while we reaped the "peace dividends" and the Russian submarines seemed condemned to rot in piles in the cold bays of the north and east of the country, we gradually left die anti-submarine warfare capabilities, but not only. While the submarine forces of NATO nations languished, reducing the number of attack submarines in service dramatically, something similar was happening in the skies, with the replacement of key aircraft, such as the P-3 Orion, being postponed or foregone. What is worse, the powerful European aeronautical industry did not even show interest in a market and in a type of devices that are now again as necessary as they were in the 80s. That is why in the next lines we will focus [Keep reading…]