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Raytheon and Rheinmetall Defence have established a joint venture to offer the Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle for the US Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) competition. The US-based joint venture is called Raytheon Rheinmetall Land Systems LLC, with the two companies joined forces in 2018 to offer Lynx for the Army’s OMFV competition. Scheduled for fielding in […]

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Lockheed Martin has announced the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program achieved a Milestone C decision from the US Air Force, which moves the program into low rate initial production. The Sikorsky Combat Rescue Helicopter will perform critical combat search and rescue and personnel recovery operations for all US military services. The four instrumented test aircraft at […]

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Minister for Defence and Procurement Anne-Marie Trevelyan addressed the UK Space Conference in Newport, South Wales.

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The MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) is providing the image generation for the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Reconfigurable Virtual Cockpit Trainers (RVCT) delivered to the US Army as part of an Other Transaction Authority (OTA 1) program. The MetaVR VRSG-based simulators include multiple versions of mixed-reality rotorcraft reconfigurable cockpit systems as well as six […]

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The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has published its Corporate Plan detailing how it will continue to play a vital role in protecting the people of the UK by providing solutions for defence and security over the next five years. The purpose of Dstl within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is to deliver high […]

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Six companies have been awarded a share of £3m to develop new semi-autonomous concept demonstrators for the British Army. The winners will demonstrate their autonomous innovations at the Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE19) in April 2020. The competition, run by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), sought to find collaborative ideas that could demonstrate semi-autonomous unmanned […]

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In bid to boost construction numbers, DIO and Kier VolkerFitzpatrick are providing opportunities for apprentices and  local students to gain an insight into a career in the construction industry. The US Visiting Forces Infrastructure Programme (UIP) is made up of several more focused projects to develop infrastructure at various RAF bases, which are used by […]

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Raytheon is to deliver a prototype high-power microwave (HPM) system to be deployed to troops overseas under a US Air Force contract. Troops will use the HPM system to destroy hostile drones. Raytheon’s HPM system uses directed energy to take down drones. HPM’s wide beam can disable multiple targets at one time. The contract follows […]

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The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $141 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) task order for new LITENING advanced targeting pods and upgrades that will bring existing pods up to the current configuration. The LITENING targeting pods enable aircrews to detect, acquire, auto-track and identify targets at long ranges for weapon delivery […]

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Free DASA expert advice and UK Government funding opportunities at Oban, Fort William, Inverness, and Thurso events. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) will be travelling across Scotland from 22 October to 31 October to meet businesses, academics, and innovators to build on the £3 million already invested in Scottish proposals and ideas. DASA Innovation […]

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A new keynote speaker has been announced for Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) 2020, which will take place at Farnborough International Exhibition Centre on 1st April. Andrew Forzani, Chief Commercial Officer of the Ministry of Defence will join Minister for Defence Procurement, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP to deliver keynote speeches at DPRTE – the […]

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The US and UK armed forces collaborated on an experiment to test the potential of autonomous vehicles in saving lives.

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Lockheed Martin has delivered the first of two KC-130J Super Hercules aerial refuelers to representatives from France’s Armée de l’Air’s 62st Transport Wing at Orléans-Bricy Air Base. France will receive a total of four Super Hercules aircraft — two C-130J-30 combat delivery airlifters and two KC-130J aerial refuelers — through a Foreign Military Sale with […]

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MBDA has signed an agreement with Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) of India for the final assembly, integration and test (FAIT) of Mistral and ASRAAM missiles in India. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by George Kyriakides, Director of International Industrial Co-operation at MBDA, and Commodore Siddharth Mishra (Retd.), Chairman & Managing Director of BDL. BDL is a major […]

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Lockheed Martin has continued development of its Advanced Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) for the F-35 Lightning II. Advanced EOTS includes a larger aperture and provides pilots with multi-spectral sensing options such as high-resolution Mid-Wave IR, Short-Wave IR and Near IR. Utilising the same volume and weight, Advanced EOTS is effortless to integrate into the F-35 Lightning […]

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