Marlborough Communications Limited (MCL) has been awarded a £1.5m contract to supply four Mission Adaptable Platform System (MAPS) Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) to the Ministry of Defence (MoD)’s Remote Patrol Vehicle (RPV) Experimentation Programme. The UGVs have been developed by Australian defence technology company Praesidium Global Pty Ltd, which has agreed ...
Specialist manufacturer WFEL has won a £2.3billion contract to produce armoured vehicles for the MOD. WFEL, a subsidy of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall, will supply the MOD with armoured vehicles for the Army’s Strike Brigades and aim to source material from UK suppliers. Under the contract, a significant portion of ...
UK manufacturer Lincad has won a contract for battery repair with the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The battery repair contract will cover L118 Light Gun Battery Power Management Systems (BPMS) which will be maintained by Lincad, a British manufacturer of specialist chargers. All work will be carried out in Lincad’s new ...
The MOD has released figures from 2018/19 showing how defence spending contributed to public expenditure in the UK. The defence spending figures put overall 2018/2019 expenditure at £19.2billion. In Scotland, MOD expenditure rose by 4.6 per cent, making Scotland the only region to see a year-on-year increase in total expenditure since ...