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Defence Online will be hosting its latest webinar ‘Design Issue Applications for Aerospace & Defence’ on Thursday October 27th at 10am. During this latest discussion we’ll hear from two acknowledged experts in the field of design issue applications for the aerospace and defence sectors, our guests: Flavien Heurtier from Greenray Industries and Andy Treble of Euroquartz. Together ...


The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched an Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Making Science Fiction a Reality: Future Directed Energy Weapons. This IFA is seeking innovations that will help contribute to the development of the first generation of deployed Directed Energy Weapons across Land, Sea and Air domains. This IFA is run on behalf of the Defence Science ...


Landmarc Support Services (Landmarc) works in partnership with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) to provide the support services that enable our Armed Forces to live, work and train on the MOD’s UK Defence Training Estate (DTE). For the second consecutive year, this partnership has managed a record twelve months of ...


The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has confirmed new investment that will increase scalable protection options for the UK’s armoured land vehicles. Funded by the British Army, the investment of £15 million over three years will enable Dstl to deliver the follow-on phase of the successful Icarus Technology Demonstrator Programme (TDP). The ...


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