Boeing Liquid Robotics SHARC or Sensor Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft is a solar and ocean powered wave glider, it is being demonstrated with over 50 other robotic craft off the Scottish coast in Unmanned Warrior 2016, the world’s first large-scale maritime exercise of its kind. Navies of the world face shrinking budgets, ageing ...
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 ...