Babcock International has successfully completed a package of work for the Northern Lighthouse Board following a competitive tender process. NLV Pole Star, a vessel designed to deploy and maintain buoys and respond to wrecks and new dangers to navigation, arrived at Babcock’s Rosyth facility last month for repair, maintenance and safety ...
Writing for Defence Online, Neil Fraser, Director of Defence and Space Programmes at NSSLGlobal examines the challenges of meeting the bandwidth demands and expectations of a modern navy. The F-35 Lightning II multi-role combat aircraft is the first ‘fifth generation’ fighter to enter service with the UK, being flown by both ...
The Royal Navy’s new Carrier Strike Group has assembled for the first time, marking the beginning of a new era of operations. HMS Queen Elizabeth is at the centre of the group which is the start of joint carrier operations between the navy and its NATO allies. Nine ships, 15 fighter jets, ...
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a follow on production contract for AN/SLQ-32(V)7 SEWIP Block 3 systems by the US Navy. The system is employed on Surface Combatants to defeat legacy and emerging anti-ship threats using non-kinetic/electronic attack methodologies. Northrop Grumman’s approach to this system is centered on a ‘software defined, hardware enabled’ ...
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