Elbit Systems has developed the Skylark C, a new highly autonomous Mini Unmanned Aircraft System (Mini-UAS) specifically designed and built for maritime applications. Based on the Skylark I Mini-UAS, which is fully operational and in use by dozens of customers around the world, the new Skylark C transforms and extends the ...
Leidos, a national security, health and infrastructure solutions company, has completed initial performance trials of the technology demonstration vessel it is developing for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) programme. The at-sea tests took place off the coast of San Diego, ...
Sailors on board HMS Portland are ready to start securing the seas having arrived in the Middle East. The ship’s company of the Devonport-based Type 23 frigate have arrived in Bahrain, six weeks into their nine-month deployment. Having made the 7,000-mile journey from the UK, they are now ready to begin ...
Following an Illustrious career, the MOD has announced that the former aircraft carrier is to be recycled. With some 32 years of exemplary service, between 1982 and 2014, HMS Illustrious covered over 900,000 nautical miles. Operations ranged from stabilisation efforts in the immediate aftermath of the first Gulf War and delivering ...