Defence Blog Posts

Royal Navy sailors have completed a successful five-month deployment with international partners to combat drug smuggling in the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The UK and France commanded a multinational naval task force, which has successfully targeted eight drugs busts over the period, seizing 1.75 tonnes of narcotics worth nearly £400 million. This included Royal Navy […]

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BAE Systems has announced an innovative, mobile multiple-object tracking radar (MOTR), which uses commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions to provide military test and evaluation ranges a higher degree of accuracy in tracking time, space, and position information (TSPI) for objects in flight. The iMOTR solution was developed over the past two years using the company’s internal research and development […]

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ViaLite Communications has announced that its RF over fibre links are compliant with the US army MIL-STD-188-164B ARSTRAT-WGS standard. ViaLite’s Director of Sales for North America, Craig Somach, confirmed the successful testing of the ViaLiteHD RF over fibre transmission equipment with tests carried out in-conjunction with a US systems integrator. ViaLite’s high performance L-Band HTS […]

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The United States Navy has commissioned the Expeditionary Sea Base, USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) during a ceremony at Khalifa bin Salman Port in Al Hidd, Bahrain This is the first US ship to be commissioned outside of the United States and further enhances the Navy’s capability to meet regional challenges. Puller’s crew will […]

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More than 650 junior soldiers have marched their way towards a new military career, following graduation from the Army Foundation College’s flagship training initiative for 16 – 17 year olds. The Harrogate-based College currently runs two courses of varying length, both of which specialise in the training of junior soldiers. Those attending the 42-week course […]

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A key component of the Tactical Mission System for a U.S. Air Force Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) – the HH-60W – has achieved Technical Readiness Level 6, Lockheed Martin has announced. The assessment followed a successful demonstration of the AN/APR-52 Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), held at the U.S. Air Force Integrated Demonstrations and Applications Laboratory […]

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QinetiQ has agreed a £4.5M contract to lead Phase IV of The Maritime Autonomous Platform Exploitation (MAPLE) on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The MAPLE project has been pioneered by QinetiQ in partnership with BAE Systems, SeeByte and Thales. Collectively, their aim is to demonstrate and de-risk the integration of multiple […]

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