Day: February 6, 2018

LATTER HALF OF 2018 – OSLO, NORWAY ADS is welcoming expressions of interest for a proposed collaboration with FSi, Norway’s defence and security industry trade body, bringing UK and Norwegian defence industry companies together by staging a Defence & Security Industry Cooperation Day in Oslo, in follow-up to previous events in Oslo in 2012 and […]

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Her Majesty the Queen has visited RAF Marham in her capacity as Honorary Air Commodore of the Station. The Queen commenced her visit at the new Lightning Operations Centre where she met with personnel from all across the Station. The Lightning Operations Centre is the first building to have been completed as part of Project […]

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Chinook helicopters have landed on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time as the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier heads to sea on her next round of trials. The UK’s future flagship set sail from Portsmouth for the first time since being officially commissioned into the Royal Navy in December. She will be launching […]

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The Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) ten year Equipment Plan is not affordable and does not provide a realistic forecast of the costs the department will have to meet over the next 10 years buying and supporting the equipment it has determined the Armed Forces need, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO). […]

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