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The Minister for Defence People and Veterans Tobias Ellwood has announced that personnel leaving the armed forces will now be able to keep their military ID. The move will allow veterans to maintain their emotional connection with the armed forces, allowing them to keep the card they have carried on them throughout their career. Retaining […]

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BAE Systems is to provide additional payload tubes for two US Navy Virginia-class (SSN 774) submarines in order to boost firepower on-board the Block V variant. In collaboration with General Dynamics Electric Boat – builder of the Virginia-class – BAE will manufacture two sets, each consisting of four tubes, for the Virginia Payload Modules (VPM) […]

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The first of Britain’s  next-generation F-35 fighter jets have arrived home two months ahead of schedule in a major milestone for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. The first four of Britain’s new cutting-edge aircraft arrived into RAF Marham their new home in Norfolk after a trans-Atlantic flight from the United States, where Britain […]

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CAE has contracted Rockwell Collins to provide its Panorama collimated display for the CC-295 full-flight simulator (FFS). The move forms part of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) programme. Panorama will now be installed onto the CAE built CC-295 FFS to prepare Canadian aircrews for operations in the new fleet of […]

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Soldiers at Perham Down are benefitting from a new sports facility including an all-weather pitch, which has been delivered by Aspire Defence for the Ministry of Defence’s Army Basing Programme (ABP). The ABP is a joint army and Defence Infrastructure Organisation programme that is providing the facilities the British Army needs to live, work and train in […]

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Defence Minister Mark Lancaster has reiterated the UK’s desire to forge closer bonds with its partners in South America following his visit to three nations on the continent. The Minister for Armed Forces has returned from Chile, Uruguay and Colombia, where he met senior military figures and politicians, and saw first-hand a range of ongoing projects. […]

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Preparations for the arrival of the UK’s new F-35 multi-role combat aircraft have taken a major step forward with the completion of resurfacing work on the secondary runway at RAF Marham. The resurfacing work was undertaken by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) through its contractors, a joint venture of Galliford Try and Lagan Construction. It forms […]

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As tensions between the West and Russia continue to mount, the Ministry of Defence is taking steps to protect the UK’s Northern airspace.  The construction of a new £10 million RAF radar facility at Saxa Vord in Shetland will improve RAF and NATO understanding of the airspace north of Britain and further out across the Norwegian Sea, reinforcing the UK’s ability to […]

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Northrop Grumman and the US Navy officially welcomed the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system to the fleet with a ceremony to celebrate the commencement of flight operations. Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu is home to the maintenance detachment of Unmanned Patrol Squadron (VUP)-19 DET Point Mugu, the Navy’s first unmanned patrol squadron. Maintainers […]

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The General Dynamics Mission Systems team successfully completed all stages of formal Sea Acceptance Testing (SAT) of Knifefish, the US Navy’s Surface Mine Countermeasure (MCM) Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) system. The tests were conducted off the coast of Boston using Navy mine test targets and included a variety of undersea, MCM operational scenarios in multiple […]

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Saab has secured a contract worth around SEK 110 million from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) for deliveries of Carl-Gustaf ammunition. The order comes under the terms of Saab’s framework agreement signed with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency in 2017 regarding Carl-Gustaf ammunition. The framework agreement enables the customer to place orders for live […]

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The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and the Royal Navy Innovation Team, DARE (Discovery, Assessment and Rapid Exploitation) are to hold an innovation event alongside the crew of the HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier in July. HMS Queen Elizabeth, and sister ship HMS Prince Of Wales, are the new cutting edge UK Aircraft Carriers and the […]

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