The Ministry of Defence has selected four industry partners and committed £10 million to develop autonomous drone wingmen for the British Army’s Apache attack helicopters, marking a significant milestone in one of the UK’s most closely watched autonomous systems programmes. Project NYX, delivered in conjunction with UK Defence Innovation (UKDI), is ...
The Royal Air Force on Wednesday 29 April announced the conclusion of the first RAF-led knowledge-sharing event for the Protector remotely piloted aircraft, hosted at RAF Waddington from 16 to 27 March. The event, which the RAF describes as a Short Look, brought twelve military personnel from Canada, Denmark and ...
Echodyne, the Washington-based radar platform company, has been named as the primary radar system within Trust Automation’s Small-Unmanned Air Defense System platform, to be delivered to the United States Air Force under a $490 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract. The IDIQ, announced in August 2025, covers the development and ...
1,200 UK jobs have been secured through a new contract worth close to £900 million that’s set to keep the British Army’s Apache helicopters – as well as the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Chinook fleet – ‘mission-ready’. The three-year £879 million contract has been awarded to Boeing Defence UK to maintain ...
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