Defence Blog Posts

The Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary have met their Polish counterparts for discussions on strengthening security and defence co-operation. Boris Johnson and Sir Michael Fallon hosted Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski and Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz in London. The Foreign Secretary and Mr Waszczykowski discussed areas of shared interest including European security, joint work on the […]

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Saab has secured a contract worth $13.4 million from the US Army for the shoulder-launched AT4CS RS (Confined Space Reduced Sensitivity) anti-armour weapon system. The AT4CS RS is a fully disposable, preloaded weapon system with a specially developed, unique shaped-charge warhead. It weighs less than 8 kg and has an effective range of 20 to […]

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Thales has secured a seven year contract worth £100M to provide through-life support for communications systems of the Royal Navy’s fleet. The contract provides Thales with the responsibility to maintain, support and manages through-life the Royal Navy’s communications systems across the majority of the Fleet’s platforms, from the state-of-the-art systems aboard the new QEC aircraft […]

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L3 Technologies is to deliver Hawkeye III Lite VSAT satellite communications terminals – alongside on-site training – to the US Air National Guard’s Joint Incident Site Communications Capability (JISCC) teams. The newly announced contract will require L3 to manufacture 46 Hawkeye III Lite 1.2 metre tri-band VSATs during the fourth quarter of 2017. These terminals […]

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BAE Systems Australia has issued a call to action urging university goers across the country to consider an exciting career in the defence sector. With a wide variety of high profile defence projects either in the works or on the horizon, Australia must tap into the next generation of talent if it is to deliver […]

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Lockheed Martin has been contracted to outfit the United States, United Kingdom and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with Apache Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M‑TADS/PNVS) systems as part of a tranche of orders worth an estimated $337M. Each award forms part of an initial task order under a newly inked indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) […]

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US Army soldiers have successfully completed a major developmental test of the Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) developed by Northrop Grumman. The test, referred to as a Soldier Checkout Event (SCOE) was carried out by soldiers from Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma and took place at Tobin Wells […]

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A new state of the art military firing range has been officially opened at Garelochhead Training Centre. The £3 million project took around two years to complete and is designed to provide the optimum ‘safe place’ training environment for armed forces personnel in order to equip them with the skills required for operational duties at […]

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Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has been given a demonstration of war fighting capability by soldiers of 3 (UK) Division at Larkhill. The Division has strong links with NATO partners and with European military allies in particular. It has at its disposal a range of modern equipment to deal with high-intensity conflict; some of which […]

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Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has welcomed an independent report compiled by the University of Northampton that praised the work of Cadet Forces across the country. The report carried out research across the entire cadet programme and found that joining the cadets offers a range of benefits both to individuals involved and the wider community. […]

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The US Navy has awarded the Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) team a contract to build an additional littoral combat ship (LCS). The contract value is under the 2017 congressional cost cap of $584 million per ship. LCS 27 will be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine and is the 14th Freedom-variant LCS ordered by the […]

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Prince Harry and Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon have launched a new partnership to improve the mental health of current and former Armed Forces personnel. The joint initiative between the MoD and the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry builds on the MoD’s recently launched mental health and wellbeing […]

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The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has completed the resurfacing of the intersection of the two runways at RAF Marham as part of a larger programme of investment. The work forms part of a £250 million DIO programme, which is part of the major investment by the Ministry of Defence to ready the station for the arrival […]

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