Orolia subsidiary, McMurdo, has been awarded a contract worth around $34 million to manufacture Personnel Recovery Devices (PRD) for the US Army. The dual-mode, MIL-SPEC Personal Locator Beacon will be integrated into the Army’s Personnel Recovery Support System (PRSS). Capable of transmitting both open and secure signals (training-combat dual mode), the PRD ...
The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, has praised British Army personnel who are preparing to train park rangers in Malawi in techniques that will help them protect African elephants and for the first time, black rhinos from poachers. Mr Williamson met several personnel at West Midlands Safari Park as they prepare to deploy ...
The US Army has partnered with Northrop Grumman to deploy enhanced Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) capabilities in Japan, bolstering battlespace awareness and missile defence. The Japanese project forms part of a wider programme of JTAGS modernisation awarded to Northrop Grumman some years previous. The system itself dates back to 1997 ...
The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that the new Land Ceptor missile system has completed its first successful firing trials. Trials of the new weapon system took place close to the Baltic Sea on a Swedish test fire range, with a missile being launched from a vehicle and destroying an ...