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The MOD has awarded a contract worth £160m to Kier VolkerFitzpatrick to deliver infrastructure to ready RAF Lakenheath for two squadrons of US F-35s. The Suffolk airbase will be the first permanent international site...
Aerospace / Air Systems / Contracts / UK MoD
Leonardo has been awarded a post-design support contract by the UK Ministry of Defence which will see the Company provide in-service support for its pre-flight threat simulation equipment, currently being used on the Typhoon,...
The United Kingdom will be adding the water-patrolling, submarine-hunting Boeing P-8A Poseidon to its Royal Air Force (RAF) fleet. Following the UK prime minister announcement at the 2016 Farnborough International Air Show, the UK...
Aerospace / Air Systems / UAV
The British and French governments have signed an agreement to begin a new phase of the bilateral Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme. A 12-month study phase will now begin, which will ultimately lead...
The flight campaign is carried out in collaboration with the Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale Pugliese (DTA) and Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (ENAC) With the first flight of the innovative remotely piloted helicopter SW-4 ‘Solo’ at the...
As part of collaborative efforts across the UK to assess how autonomous air vehicles could be integrated in UK airspace, scientists and engineers at BAE Systems have begun another tranche of ground-breaking unmanned aircraft...
“this time we will be focussing on small and medium sized businesses” read also: India-UK relations – This document gives an overview of the partnership between the UK andIndia. Following the Brexit vote, British Prime Minister Theresa May...
Minister for Defence Procurement, Harriett Baldwin announces pound £131.5 million support contract for RAF’s Sentinel surveillance aircraft. The deal with Raytheon UK will provide the Sentinel aircraft with in-service support and maintenance, meaning it...
• The UK MoD is determined to create a culture that is innovative by instinct, to drive innovation through strategic planning, to catalyse innovation through science and technology and to find new ways to...
The world’s first fully integrated detect-track-disrupt Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS) launched by a trio of British companies features a quad band radio frequency (RF) inhibitor/jammer, an optical disruptor and rapid deployment features The AUDS system...
Lime Microsystems and Airbus Defence and Space, with funding from Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board), today announced a joint development of robust GNSS products. Airbus D&S, using Lime’s Field Programmable RF (FPRF)...
The British Government has announced the creation of the 77th battalion, a cyber unit composed of soldiers familiar with social media. The cyberspace is a strategic domain for modern warfare, for this reason, the British...
The United States and the U.K. will stage cyber “war games” together, starting this year, to boost both countries’ resistance to cyberattacks, n a bid to expose security weaknesses before they are abused by...
An Italian doctor, who developed a fever and was positive at the Ebola virus after working at a clinic located few miles west of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, was repatriated with a special bio-containment...
FR MoD / new technologies / UAV / UK MoD
A version of this article appears in the August 11/18 double issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. New low-observable technologies, a highly reliable turbofan engine and multifunction radar are among the technologies that...
Approval has been given for the Army’s own pilots to begin live-flying the unarmed Watchkeeper from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire; up until now it has been only been trialled by industry. Gathering crucial information...
Steve Wadey UK Managing Director of MBDA, and Business Minister Michael Fallon are the two co-chair of the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) – a new partnership between industry and government, with the scope to...
In a recently released report, the UK Government Office for Science, analyses the future of manufacturing, noting the rising share of services. Manufacturing in 2050 will look very different from today, and will be...
State-of-the-art RAF Typhoons and French Air Force Mirages were involved in the air component of Exercise Joint Warrior, a twice-yearly, multinational, tri-service military exercise, one of the biggest of its kind in Europe. see...
Thirteen British companies and the U.K. Minister of Defence Equipment, Support and Technology participated in a Lockheed Martin Industry Recognition Event during the DSEI tradeshow today. Over the next 40 years, British industry will...