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NATO welcomes innovators to help tackle security challenges

June 26, 2023

Applications have opened for world-class innovators from the UK and across NATO with novel ideas to help solve critical defence and security problems. NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) aims to support the best and brightest innovators to develop innovative technologies which could have defence and security benefits. Staffed ...

British fighter jets and helicopters training exercise

June 8, 2023

The UK has been conducting major multi-domain training activity exercising alongside more than 10,000 NATO personnel. RAF Typhoon fighter jets and Army Air Corps Apache helicopters were involved in the training exercise off the coast of Estonia, in which they practiced firing their heavy machine guns and advanced missiles at targets ...

QinetiQ to deliver Formidable Shield 2023

Land May 24, 2023

QinetiQ is assisting in the delivery of Exercise Formidable Shield (FS) – a mission rehearsal exercise will feature the armed forces of 13 NATO allies and partners. Led by the U.S. Sixth Fleet with Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) delivery, FS is a live-fire combined integrated air and missile ...

Bolstering defence and security in the High North

Land May 19, 2023

Bolstering defence and security in the High North: How connectivity is key to protecting the Earth’s Final Frontier. The changing landscape of the Arctic is opening up significant opportunities, locally and globally. But as a frontier – and one of the last remaining on Earth – the Arctic represents a critically ...