The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, has made his first visit to Iraq and took the opportunity to praise UK service personnel as British airstrikes continue to wipe out Daesh. RAF aircraft carried out operations against the terrorist group every day over the Christmas period, striking terrorist compounds, trucks, mortars and pockets ...
Viasat has been awarded a contract to upgrade the NATO UHF satellite communications (SATCOM) control stations to comply with the Integrated Waveform (IW) baseline. The upgrade gives NATO greater communications interoperability, scalability and flexibility across legacy and next-generation platforms to enhance situational awareness as the battlespace dynamically expands. As part of this ...
The United States and allied military forces have agreed a $944 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the production and delivery of the company’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors to upgrade their missile defence capabilities. The contract includes PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE interceptors and ...
Raytheon has completed Lot 1 production of the Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) II, a new weapon that will give fighter pilots the ability to destroy moving targets at any time and in all-weather conditions. The SDB II bomb is a gliding precision weapon with a one-of-a-kind tri-mode seeker that uses millimetre ...