Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis MP has opened Europe’s largest drone testing and development facility in Swindon, establishing the UK’s Uncrewed Systems Centre (USC) at the new DroneTEX site as the focal point for drone innovation, industry collaboration, and rapid capability fielding. At 545,000sq ft, the facility is the size of more ...
The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), managed by Future Planet Capital, has secured an additional £33.25m across three of its investment areas, taking total fund capacity to £150m. The Ministry of Defence has contributed £4m to the fund’s Defence thesis, the UK Space Agency £9.25m to its Space ...
The UK has crossed a significant threshold in defence communications capability, with Dstl and Oxford-based SME Archangel Lightworks completing the country’s first successful download of data from space using a deployable laser communications ground station. During a 90-second satellite pass over the Mediterranean, many gigabits of data were transmitted from a ...
The RAF’s next-generation airborne early warning aircraft has touched down in Scotland, with the first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW Mk1 arriving at RAF Lossiemouth on 21 May – greeted, appropriately, by a member of the station’s pipe band. Registered as WT001, the aircraft departed STS Aviation Services at Birmingham Airport before ...
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