The University of Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory has officially opened a new £58 million facility and hosted the Frank Whittle Summit, bringing together executives from Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Boeing, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Siemens Energy, and leading AI firms alongside senior government and military officials to launch a new mission-led approach to hardware ...
Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard MP has delivered a wide-ranging keynote address at the Global Air and Space Chiefs’ Conference in London, unveiling the name of the UK’s new autonomous combat aircraft programme and setting out how the Defence Investment Plan’s £27.8 billion commitment to air and ...
BAE Systems has completed integration and deployment testing of its Anti-Threat System, known as BATS, marking a significant milestone in the rapid development of one of the UK’s most advanced counter-drone capabilities. Developed by BAE Systems’ Digital Intelligence business, BATS is a scalable, software-defined system designed to detect, track, identify and ...
The Ministry of Defence has awarded £3.16 million to three UK SMEs to develop low-cost interceptors capable of shooting down drones, making the UK the first of five European partner nations to award contracts under a new joint air defence programme. The Low-Cost Air Defence Effectors (LCADE) programme is being delivered ...
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