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Bluebottle maker opens Sydney plant for forty vessels
Ocius Technology has opened an engineering, production and maintenance hub for its Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessels in Sydney, together with a round-the-clock global operations centre.
Review under way on array that detects nuclear tests
An independent review has been commissioned into ways of reducing the ground vibration reaching the Eskdalemuir seismic array.
All Boxers built to one standard, says minister
All 623 Boxers are being delivered to a common build standard, which has made variant and build configuration effectively the same thing.
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Lib Dems propose six more frigates for Royal Navy
The Liberal Democrats have proposed ordering six additional Royal Navy frigates and expanding British shipbuilding capacity as part of a defence package aimed at responding to the threat from Russia.
Babcock opens skills centre on Devonport waterfront
Babcock has opened a Skills Centre at Devonport Dockyard able to support fifteen hundred technical staff and apprentices a year, and has broken ground on an Integrated Logistics Hub at Sherford.
Bluebottle maker opens Sydney plant for forty vessels
Ocius Technology has opened an engineering, production and maintenance hub for its Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessels in Sydney, together with a round-the-clock global operations centre.
Britain and France to lead Hormuz transit mission
Britain is co-leading planning with France for a Multinational Military Mission intended to give commercial shipping safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
Sealift outline case due this financial year
The Strategic Outline Case for the Strategic Sealift Future programme, which will decide how Britain replaces the ships that move the Army's heavy equipment, is intended to be completed before the end of this financial year.
AVIATION NEWS
Britain told to plan for war without Trump’s America
A Leicester security academic calls the American president a Russophile and, in his words, a traitor to the West’s liberal-democratic values, and says Britain must plan to fight alone on five per cent of GDP.
American bomber escorted by British and Norwegian F-35s
British F-35Bs flying from HMS Prince of Wales and Norwegian F-35As have escorted a United States Air Force B-52 on a nuclear exercise.
Army drone deal widened to cover heavier aircraft
The Ministry of Defence intends to raise the maximum take-off weight allowed under the British Army's mini drone contract from twenty kilograms to fifty.
Protector drone flight over Channel was not for Home Office
An RAF Protector RG-1 that flew over the English Channel on 14 October was operating in support of defence aims and not in support of the Home Office, according to an answer given in Parliament.
British jets escort French jets on ‘nuclear strike’
British Typhoon jets have escorted French Rafales simulating a nuclear strike mission over the Mediterranean.
LAND NEWS
Up to two billion pounds to replace the SA80 rifle
The programme to replace the SA80 family of weapons carries an estimated value of up to £2 billion and the contract is expected to run from July 2029 until the end of March 2045.
Review under way on array that detects nuclear tests
An independent review has been commissioned into ways of reducing the ground vibration reaching the Eskdalemuir seismic array.
All Boxers built to one standard, says minister
All 623 Boxers are being delivered to a common build standard, which has made variant and build configuration effectively the same thing.
Service leavers offered wind turbine training
People leaving the Armed Forces can take Global Wind Organisation safety and technical training through the Career Transition Partnership as a route into the wind energy industry.
Army seeks new ways to power troops on the battlefield
UK Defence Innovation has opened a Tactical Power Challenge worth £2.45 million seeking better ways to generate, store, distribute and manage electrical power for deployed forces.
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