As the coronavirus continues its grip on our everyday way of life and threatening the most vulnerable members of society, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is playing a crucial role in supporting public services in response to the pandemic. On 18 March, the Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, announced new measures to ...
New laws to protect military personnel and veterans from vexatious claims and the cycle of re-investigations have been introduced. As part of the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill, serving and former Armed Forces personnel will have more legal protection from prosecution for alleged historical offences resulting from overseas operations. This ...
Raytheon has completed the first round of testing of the first partially populated radar antenna array for the US Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS. The milestone comes less than five months after the US Army selected Raytheon to build LTAMDS, a next-generation radar that will defeat ...
HORIBA MIRA has secured a major £2.3m contract to supply VIKING – the first autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) of its kind – to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The award of this contract is a demonstration of HORIBA MIRA’s unique technology in this field and its ability to ...