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Raytheon Rheinmetall Land Systems, a joint venture of Raytheon Company and Rheinmetall Defence, has selected Textron Systems as the US chassis manufacturer for the Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Lynx is a next-generation, tracked armoured fighting vehicle designed to address the critical challenges of the future battlefield. Lynx provides an overmatch advantage for soldiers, growth capacity to […]

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Dorset-based defence technology solutions provider Aish Technologies has appointed Naval specialist Ric Elkington as its new Managing Director. Mr Elkington has been promoted to MD from his previous role as Head of Naval for both Aish and sister company Aeronautical General Instruments (AGI). Having served 21 years in the Royal Navy, Mr Elkington then joined […]

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Scotland’s largest military establishment, the HM Naval Base in Clyde, has been selected as the first UK test site for a study that could change the way soldiers, sailors and aircrew are housed. The 3,400 submariners, sailors and Royal Marines based at (HMNB Clyde) have been selected as the first UK personnel who could benefit […]

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DASA has launched Phase 2 of ‘Don’t Blow It!’, a competition seeking novel ways of neutralising chemical weapons.

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Construction of a combined medical dental centre, physical training centre and band/drill area has completed on the site of the Defence College of Logistics, Policing and Administration at Worthy Down. The three new buildings at Worthy Down have been delivered as part of a £300 million project by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), which is […]

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Colonel Tim Collins MBE has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) 2020, which will take place at Farnborough International Exhibition Centre on 1st April. Colonel Tim Collins OBE delivered the infamous speech to British troops of the 1st Royal Irish Battle Group on the eve of battle […]

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The US Air Force has started a new justice information system to modernise criminal data.

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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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The Polish Air Force is now using a sophisticated suite of flight data recording, transmission, management and analysis technology from Teledyne Controls to further improve the safety and efficiency of its dedicated VIP Flights for senior government and military officials. The Polish Air Force has deployed Teledyne’s GroundLink Comm+ system – a wireless quick access […]

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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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