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Leonardo secures £293 million Apache fleet contract

Air January 21, 2019

The MOD has awarded a five-year, multi-million-pound deal to Leonardo Helicopters (UK) for the support of the existing fleet of 50 Apache attack helicopters. Defence Minister Stuart Andrew announced the £293 million contract with Leonardo Helicopters during a visit to the company’s site in Yeovil where some of the vital work ...

Babcock secure HMS Queen Elizabeth maintenance contract

Maritime January 14, 2019

Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced that Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard has been awarded a contract to carry out the first planned dry-dock maintenance of Britain’s largest warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The contract worth £5 million, will see the 65,000-tonne carrier to undergo a routine, planned hull survey and maintenance of her ...

MOD awards RAF Poseidon training contracts to Copernicus Technology

Air January 8, 2019

Copernicus Technology has won two MOD contracts in support of RAF Poseidon MRA Mk1 Maritime Patrol Aircraft, which will be based at RAF Lossiemouth from 2020. In late December they officially handed over a full Visual Recognition Training package to visiting senior MOD representatives of the Poseidon program. Copernicus Technology won ...

MOD agrees £250 million Shadow aircraft deal

Air January 7, 2019

The Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced the MOD has signed a £250 million deal to support the RAF’s intelligence-gathering Shadow aircraft fleet. Shadow is a highly capable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft which performs crucial intelligence-gathering on operations all over the world. Shadow, flown by 14 Squadron RAF, has been on ...