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Royal Navy navigation interface work to go to OSI Maritime

The Ministry of Defence intends to award OSI Maritime Systems a two-year contract worth £15m to design, build, install and assure replacement interface units connecting the Royal Navy's electronic chart system to its combat systems.

NATO sets out plan to make allied forces quantum ready

NATO has published a public summary of a quantum technology roadmap intended to speed up the adoption of quantum computing, communication and sensing across the alliance and allied armed forces.

Ukraine runs first supply mission with amphibious robot

Ukrainian troops have carried out what is described as the first logistics mission using a domestically developed amphibious uncrewed ground vehicle, covering more than 40km over land and water.

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Advanced British warship nears return to fleet

HMS Daring has taken on fuel for the first time in years, in the clearest sign yet that the destroyer is close to going back to sea after nearly a decade.

Royal Navy navigation interface work to go to OSI Maritime

The Ministry of Defence intends to award OSI Maritime Systems a two-year contract worth £15m to design, build, install and assure replacement interface units connecting the Royal Navy's electronic chart system to its combat systems.

British Commandos called in air strikes alongside Navy SEALs

Royal Marines from the UK Commando Force guided in attacks by American fast jets and seized a ship at sea during three weeks of maritime special operations training with United States Navy SEALs in Virginia.

Sunken American frigate will become a reef off Scotland

The decommissioned frigate USS Klakring, sunk by British and American forces off the Hebrides this month, will become a natural reef on the seabed, and the environmental approvals were obtained before the exercise took place.

Live fire on this scale is rare, Royal Navy commander says

Most Royal Navy training is not live firing, which is what set this exercise apart, says Commander Peter Meigh, speaking from range control on South Uist as USS Klakring was sunk.

AVIATION NEWS

Skyrora hot fires scaled-down orbital rocket in Scotland

Skyrora has completed a 45-second static hot-fire test of a scaled-down version of its Skyrora XL rocket at Machrihanish in Scotland.

Arrestor gear contract to go to Marshall

The Ministry of Defence intends to extend and combine two contracts with Marshall Land Systems covering the aircraft arrestor systems used at British and overseas military airfields.

Rutte calls Lithuanian drone shootdown collective defence

The destruction of a drone that violated Lithuanian airspace by Italian jets flying from Šiauliai was collective defence in action, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

BAE friend or foe system certified for US Air Force F-16

BAE Systems has received AIMS certification for a new Identification Friend or Foe unit fitted to the United States Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Rolls-Royce to invest in British factories, Chancellor says

Rolls-Royce is to put £300 million into its British factories at Derby, Bristol, Glasgow and Rotherham, John Healey announced in his first Labour Party conference speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer, presenting the commitment as evidence of returning confidence in British industry.

LAND NEWS

Burden shifting among topics for NATO college students

Students on the NATO Defence College's senior and regional cooperation courses spent a day at alliance headquarters working through burden shifting, the strategic imperatives facing NATO and a turbulent security environment.

British forces leave Iraq as coalition mission ends

British personnel have departed Iraq as the Global Coalition ends its military mission against Daesh in the country, bringing more than a decade of operations under Operation Inherent Resolve to a close.

NATO’s only Latin American partner visits Brussels HQ

Students from the Colombia War College have visited NATO headquarters in Brussels for briefings on the alliance's political and military structure and on its partnership with Colombia, the only Latin American country to hold partner status, according to NATO.

NATO sets out plan to make allied forces quantum ready

NATO has published a public summary of a quantum technology roadmap intended to speed up the adoption of quantum computing, communication and sensing across the alliance and allied armed forces.

Ukraine runs first supply mission with amphibious robot

Ukrainian troops have carried out what is described as the first logistics mission using a domestically developed amphibious uncrewed ground vehicle, covering more than 40km over land and water.

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