Day: October 26, 2017

UK sponsors East Africa Standby Force map exercise

British Defence Attaché to Ethiopia, Colonel Matt Munro, has handed over certificates to East Africa Standby Force (EASF) military personnel who completed Logistic Map exercise at the EASF headquarters in Addis Ababa. The 21 EASF military personnel drawn out of Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Rwanda, Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda attended a five day long […]

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£90M investment announced for helicopter simulation centre

More than £90M is to be invested as part of a world-class helicopter simulation centre designed to ready the next generation of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopter pilots for operational duty. These state-of-the-art simulators will put prospective pilots through their paces, replicating such high pressure scenarios as blizzard conditions, enemy fire, power failures […]

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Boeing award Lockheed Martin sensor system upgrade contract

Lockheed Martin has been awarded two contracts by Boeing to upgrade its IRST21 sensor system for use on the US Navy’s F/A-18E/F fleet. The Block II contracts provide up to $100 million for developing advanced software, performing hardware upgrades and delivering prototypes. These efforts will further enhance IRST21’s detection, tracking and ranging capabilities in radar-denied environments. IRST21 is the […]

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