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More than £90M is to be invested as part of a world-class helicopter simulation centre designed to ready the next generation of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopter pilots for operational duty. These state-of-the-art simulators will put prospective pilots through their paces, replicating such high pressure scenarios as blizzard conditions, ...
DPRTE 2018 – DE&S Procurement Pavilion
October 24, 2017Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE), the sector’s premier procurement event, will return to Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on 27 March 2018. At the heart of DPRTE 2018 will be the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Procurement Pavilion. Commanding an annual budget of £14 billion, DE&S is the body charged with ...
A brand new Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) has been christened at the Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow. HMS Medway – second of five Batch 2 River class OPVs – is the tenth vessel to bear that name since the 1690s. It’s a distinction that demonstrates the longstanding relationship between the ...
Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin has announced at the House of Commons Defence Select Committee that the UK’s cutting-edge F-35 fighter jet has been cleared for take-off from HMS Queen Elizabeth. Ms Baldwin told the Select Committee that he F-35 Integrated Test Force, which includes five British pilots, has now successfully completed ...
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