Day: June 12, 2018

Technology giant Microsoft has signed up to the Armed Forces Covenant – becoming one of the biggest companies to do so. The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise from the nation that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. At the signing, Microsoft made a number of pledges, including a […]

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The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced new UK deployments as backed NATO’s role in strengthening Europe’s defence, stability and security. Speaking at the NATO Defence Ministerial in Brussels, the last ahead of the Summit in July, Mr Williamson committed UK jets to policing over Estonia and Iceland for 2019. He went on to announce […]

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At the Electronic Warfare Europe 2018 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, Leonardo officially announced the next variant of its BriteCloud missile decoy system, the BriteCloud 55-T. Manufactured in Luton, BriteCloud 55-T employs sophisticated miniaturised jamming technology to protect large-scale military transport aircraft – such as Leonardo’s own C27-J Spartan and a host of third party platforms […]

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