An innovative digital project launching at the Defence Academy is poised to make decades of defence research available to UK defence personnel and allies. The Defence Academy Research Engine (DARE) is due to launch in September 2022. Designed by the Centre for Defence Education Research and Analysis (CDERA), the DARE will be ...
In four weeks of continuous live-fire exercises, an industry team led by Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Kord, a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR, defeated multiple 60mm mortar rounds with a 50kW-class high energy laser integrated on a Stryker combat vehicle. The directed energy weapon system — part of the US ...
The US Army MAAWS Program Office has awarded Saab a contract for Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifles. The Carl-Gustaf rifles are also known as Multi-purpose Anti-Armour Anti-personnel Weapon System (MAAWS) and M3A1 in the US Army. The order will include deliveries of weapons for both the Army and the US Marine Corps. The contract ...
The first of a new suite of contracts to provide key services for the UK Armed Forces on overseas Ministry of Defence (MOD) bases has been awarded. The £155 million contract, which will provide maintenance work, repairs, servicing, and hard facilities management to the MOD’s estate in Gibraltar, has been awarded ...