The RAPIDFire system developed by the consortium formed by Thales and Nexter has been chosen by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) to equip future French Navy vessels with new artillery. This new innovative and versatile close-in weapon system will provide the Navy’s surface vessels with an effective close-in defence capability ...
HMS Spey, the fifth and final River Class Batch 2 Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), departed BAE Systems’ shipyard in Glasgow earlier this week on her delivery voyage to her new home of Portsmouth Naval Base. The departure of HMS Spey marks the completion of the Batch 2 OPV programme build phase, ...
Vital warships providing supplies and technical support to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers will made by British-led teams, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced. A competition to build three Fleet Solid Support warships – which will launch in Spring 2021 – will help revitalise British shipbuilding by requiring a significant proportion ...
UK defence and security electronic system company, SEA, has been selected to provide its acoustic sensor technology KraitArray to a major Australian Defence Innovation Hub Phase 3 contract for autonomous anti-submarine warfare (ASW). The SEA low-profile towed array was chosen by Australian prime contractor BlueZone Group to form part of a ...
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