The government’s newly published Defence Investment Plan has formally confirmed long-anticipated plans to retire the Royal Air Force’s ageing Hawk fleet, with a new Jet Training System set to take over both frontline fast-jet training and the Red Arrows’ display duties. The Plan states that new jets for “a modernised fast-jet ...
Thales has been selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency to supply a Deployable Tactical Air Navigation system to the Spanish Air and Space Force, in a contract that demonstrates the NSPA’s growing role as a direct procurement channel for sovereign defence capability across the alliance. The D-TACAN system – ...
A week-long exercise integrating multiple uncrewed systems with Wildcat helicopters, Royal Marines and ship commanders has demonstrated that long-range drone network operations are ready for Royal Navy use now – and signals the next phase of UK hybrid maritime capability development. The Royal Navy has completed a landmark series of trials ...
The European Defence Agency’s Sentinel Strike Challenge moves to live field testing in Portugal this autumn, as five companies advance to compete for €1.8 million in prizes – and generate the operational evidence that EU defence ministries will use to shape future loitering munition procurement. The European Defence Agency has named ...
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