Day: March 19, 2018

The wait for Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) 2018 to take place at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on 27 March is almost over. Here we take a look at what’s on offer at this must-attend showcase.  The stage is set for buyers, suppliers and defence thought leaders to be brought together in an engaging environment where they can network and discuss the latest market developments […]

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Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are collaborating with Nottingham Trent University on knitted sensors to guard against hearing loss for troops. Dstl is supporting the Materials Research Exchange exhibition and conference (MRE) and the acoustic yarn will be amongst other projects from industry and academia being presented at the event. Funded by […]

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Airbus has secured a contract from Europe’s organisation for the management of cooperative armament programmes – OCCAR – on behalf of NATO Support & Procurement Agency (NSPA) to provide an Airbus A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport. The order follows the announcement in February of Belgium’s official accession to the European/NATO Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport […]

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Royal Navy Lieutenants Tim Dunning and John Phillips have joined the hunt for a US nuclear boat off the coast of Sicily as part of NATO’s biggest ever Mediterranean anti-submarine exercise, dubbed Dynamic Manta. Aided by the USS John Warner, a Virginia-class hunter-killer skimming the surface of the Ionian Sea, the Royal Navy Wildcat crew […]

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