MARITIME
Following three years of sea-based trials, BAE Systems’ Artisan 3D radar system has received the go ahead from the Royal Navy after it has proved its worth in a operational capability. The five-year £105M contract with BAE Systems will see the company develop, manufacture and support 19 of the radars, the ...
Work to develop new service accommodation in Portsmouth has completed, with the opening marked by a visit from Defence Minister Mark Lancaster, Naval Base Commander Commodore Jeremy Rigby and the Chief Executive of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC) Robert Robson. Accommodation at the naval base creates a home-from-home ...
The Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has announced the training of UK Armed Forces alongside Sierra Leonean troops for the first time ever. Almost 90 soldiers from 1st The Queen’s Dragoons Guards’ ‘B’ Squadron recently deployed alongside 25 soldiers from the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces for a jungle exercise ...
Following 12 months out on deployment, the crew of the HMS Mersey are to return to the UK next month. The patrol ship left Portsmouth in January last year, setting off for the Caribbean before making her way east to the Mediterranean and then on to the Aegean. With a ship’s company ...
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