Patrolling hostile waters

The South China Sea is a magnet for trouble, but airborne maritime surveillance assets are still a scarcity, as AFM’s Alan Warners explains. INTEL REPORT Leonardo sent one of the two recently delivered ATR 72MPAs to LIMA, which received a good deal of interest during the event. Babak Taghvaee AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE is a role Southeast Asian countries should be taking very seriously these days. Terrorism, or the threat of terrorists crossing the South China Sea, has focused minds, yet for