The joint venture company Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has won a Ministry of Defence contract worth over £16 million to upgrade and sustain the British Army’s fleet of Fuchs/Fox CBRN reconnaissance vehicles and training simulator. The Fuchs is a 6×6 armoured vehicle with built-in detection equipment for chemical, biological, radiological ...
The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren’t autonomously reliable. While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can’t process ...
The Ministry of Defence has awarded a new contract to WFEL for the supply of 17 Sets of its MGB Medium Girder Bridges. This contract award for WFEL follows a review of the MoD’s modular gap crossing capabilities, which aimed to draw together existing in-service capabilities into a single coherent capability. These ...
Speaking at DPRTE Engage Online, Andrew Forzani, Chief Commercial Officer, UK Ministry of Defence, examined what lessons the defence industry could learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 has seen a shift in the public perception of the functions of the defence industry. The defence supply chain was heavily ...