Day: September 6, 2017

Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), the world-leading event that brings together the global defence and security sector to innovate and share knowledge, returns to London ExCeL on 12-15 September 2017. Here, defence features writer Robert Atherton looks at the launch of the dedicated Innovation Hub, hosted by the Defence and Security Accelerator. There has […]

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Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin has announced the successful first first firings of the new Sea Ceptor air defence system. The minister made the announcement as she visited defence company MBDA’s site in Filton, near Bristol, meeting with local graduates, apprentices and other employees working on the Sea Ceptor system. The first firings were conducted from […]

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Royal Navy warship HMS Diamond has set sail from Portsmouth Naval Base for a nine-month operational deployment in the Gulf. The destroyer left her home port to cheering crowds on the Round Tower and received a flypast from a Wildcat helicopter based with 815 Naval Air Squadron in Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton. She will […]

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Royal Navy mine hunter HMS Penzance has returned to her Scottish base of operations after spending three years playing her part in protecting vital waterways in the Gulf. The Faslane ship is a Royal Navy Sandown class Mine Counter Measures Vessel (MCMV) and clocked up over 7,500 hours at sea and sailed more than 34,000 […]

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