The Royal Navy’s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Spearhead programme has unveiled three groundbreaking autonomous platforms – CETUS, PROTEUS and SCYLLA – signalling a step-change in Britain’s naval capability and its contribution to the AUKUS partnership. Backed by £400 million of investment, the programme demonstrates how innovative acquisition models, multi-year funding, and close ...
James Fisher Defence (JFD Global) has launched a major project with the UK Submarine Delivery Agency to deliver a new advanced medical monitoring system for integration into the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS). The development represents a step-change in submarine rescue capability, expanding medical monitoring capacity from four personnel to ...
The Royal Navy has successfully completed the first live firing of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM), marking a key milestone in the modernisation of its surface fleet. HMS Somerset, a Type 23 frigate based in Plymouth, carried out the trial at the Andøya test range in Norway during Exercise Aegir ...
TEKEVER, Europe’s leading provider of unmanned aerial systems, collaborated with General Dynamics Mission Systems–United Kingdom at this year’s REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Uncrewed Systems) exercise in Troia, Portugal, to explore new approaches to maritime anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Building on last year’s milestone in sonobuoy deployment, TEKEVER’s AR5 was once ...
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