A collaboration of BAE Systems, QinetiQ and DE&S, has resulted in the long-term NCSISS contract awarded to BAE Systems. The contract is an extension of the initial phase awarded in March 2012 and will see BAE Systems’ engineers supporting the key in-service Royal Naval ships from BAE Systems’ Maritime Integration Support Centre ...
Thousands of Sailors and Royal Marines have been in action on land, in the air and at sea, during a joint exercise with Albania. UK military personnel joined Albanian forces for Exercise Albanian Lion, part of the Royal Navy’s annual deployment of a crisis-focused amphibious task group, the Joint Expeditionary Force ...
This weekend saw the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior event get underway, the first large-scale demonstration of Unmanned systems alongside a major multinational naval exercise; Joint Warrior. The event was conceived by (then) First Sea Lord Admiral Zambellas in 2014, in line with the Strategic Defence and Security Review’s direction on innovation and ...
A recent study commissioned by the EDA has shown that exports are booming for EU manufacturers of military vessels and submarines. Despite difficult conditions in a turbulent global naval market, where exports from Chinese, Russian and South Korean shipyards are growing, the quality of European manufacturing helps to keep its ...