In the early 1980s, Nokia emerged as a key player in Finland’s defence communications. Its rugged messaging devices—tested in snowdrifts, sauna kettles, and artillery camps—became legendary for their durability and reliability. Today, Nokia returns to the military electronics sector with a radically new vision: not just devices, but a digital ecosystem for modern warfare. Finnish
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Strategic attacks targeting critical infrastructure such as power grids, data networks, and water supply systems have become a significant threat. The ability to monitor and protect these assets continuously and comprehensively is crucial for maintaining national security. By the end of the 20th century, discussions about strategic attacks as a threat model began to focus
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In modern warfare, the ability to gather critical intelligence while remaining hidden is crucial. New portable surveillance technologies are disruptive. Replacing static devices, they are deployable on the ground, in the air and on the water surface. This significantly enhances discreet, versatile, and rapid intelligence-gathering capabilities. Today’s armed forces rely heavily on detecting and analyzing
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Despite of the importance of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) in modern operations and the obvious need to coordinate spectrum activities with air, space, land, sea and cyber activities, most Western nations, and NATO, have failed to recognize EMS as one environment in modern warfare. This might be the Achille’s heel of the Western military forces.
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Having seen the state-of-the art in last week’s NATO quantum symposium, I have to say: Be warned, the future is already here.
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Armed forces need to evolve like science, continuously. We are constantly reassessing, Bryan Wells, the Chief Scientist at NATO reminded in Helsinki. NATO has 400 scientific projects underway with a global network of about 5000 scientists. ”From a scientific and technical perspective, a key lesson learned from the Russian-Ukrainian war is the range of capabilities
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Modern battlespace is getting more and more transparent especially for mobile warfare. Is it anymore possible to survive in hide and seek game against modern all-weather capable sensors cueing and directing enemy firepower? M.Sc., Lic.Tech, Dr.Tech h.c., GSO, Colonel Jyri Kosola, R&T Director, Finnish Defence ForcesDisclaimer: The arguments and opinions are solely of the authors and
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Technological development of radars and communication systems will cause hard times for Electric Warfare systems, as library-based electronic support is too slow and current intelligent jammers not intelligent enough for the dynamic battle space of the future. M.Sc., Lic.Tech, Dr.Tech h.c., GSO, Colonel Jyri Kosola, R&T Director, Finnish Defence Forces Electromagnetic waves have been exploited
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Transformation from analogue technologies to digital technology in 1980 ́s and 1990 ́s was a small revolution, as digital technology allowed to store information reliably, to transmit it over long distances and to process it in a device called processor. By Jyri Kosola, M.Sc, Lic.Tech, Dr.Tech h.c., GSO, R&T Director, Finnish Defence Forces Disclaimer: The arguments
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Emerging and Disruptive: Who Dares, Wins Emerging and disruptive technology, or EDT, is today’s buzzword used to describe a fundamental change that technological development brings. Emerging refers to new applications that are not foreseen or recognized now. As these technologies mature and become more widespread, sources of innovation will be more diverse. This will inevitably
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