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According to multiple reports, NATO is expected to select Saab’s GlobalEye to replace its aging fleet of 14 Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. The official announcement is expected at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7–8.

The GlobalEye is a multi-domain airborne early warning platform based on the Bombardier Global 6500 business jet, equipped with Saab’s Erieye radar system. It can track air, land, and maritime targets simultaneously, and is already in service with the United Arab Emirates ,and already ordered by France and Canada.

This would mark a major shift away from the E-3 platform, which has been in service since the early 1980s, and follows the earlier collapse of the planned E-7 Wedgetail replacement effort.

If confirmed, this would be one of the biggest NATO surveillance capability transitions in decades, and a major win for Saab in the AEW&C market.

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In Britain’s case, being a maritime nation, we’ve had a few.

1. The Golden Hinde. A 16th century galleon, the Golden Hinde was the ship of the Elizabethan Sea Dog Francis Drake as he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. This image is of a modern replica.

2. HMS Victory. Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar, and the oldest commissioned warship to this day (but not the oldest one afloat).

3. HMS Dreadnought. Revolutionised naval design when it was launched in 1906, rendering every battleship in the world immediately obsolete. In World War One, she rammed and sank a U-Boat.

4. HMS Warspite. The most decorated British warship in history, she fought at Jutland, in Norway, and in the Mediterranean. Holds the joint record for the longest ranged shot landed on an enemy ship.

Un civil en Estados Unidos posee legalmente este sistema de cuatro miniguns, una configuración que combina cuatro ametralladoras de cañón rotativo capaces de disparar hasta 24,000 rondas por minuto en conjunto. Cada minigun dispara alrededor de 6,000 rondas por minuto, lo que convierte a este equipo en una de las armas privadas más potentes del país. El sistema está montado sobre una estructura mecánica con cadenas y engranajes que ayudan a controlar el retroceso y alimentar la munición en los cuatro cañones. En Estados Unidos, los civiles pueden poseer legalmente ciertas armas automáticas, incluyendo miniguns, siempre que hayan sido registradas antes de la Enmienda Hughes de 1986, pasen una exhaustiva verificación federal de antecedentes y paguen un impuesto. Estas ametralladoras registradas antes de 1986 son extremadamente raras y pueden venderse por cientos de miles de dólares en el mercado privado. Solo el costo de la munición hace que disparar este sistema sea extraordinariamente caro. Usar las cuatro miniguns a máxima capacidad consume munición a un costo estimado de unos $2,600 por minuto, lo que significa que la sesión de disparo de aproximadamente 40 segundos mostrada aquí costó cerca de $6,000 solo en balas.