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Leonardo has welcomed the government's Defence Investment Plan and set out where the company's radars, electronic-warfare payloads, autonomous aircraft and directed-energy work sit within it.
An RFI asks industry for launchers able to stay ready to fire for 30 days with no human interaction, aboard both warships and uncrewed vessels.
Six crewed command ships, plus an uncrewed fleet that could top sixty hulls, for a cancelled eleven destroyers and frigates. Measured by yards not tonnage, the hybrid Navy could boost British shipbuilding more than the ships it drops.
The Ministry of Defence still holds 42 SEPECAT Jaguar aircraft almost two decades after the type retired from Royal Air Force service, with nine more having been transferred to the Indian Air Force.
The incoming Prime Minister committed to fully funding the Defence Investment Plan, a third of which is not yet paid for.
The British Army's sprawling training area in Canada is to become a major testing ground for uncrewed systems, with new investment enabling drone activity across 2,700 square kilometres of prairie.
A new laboratory named after Ernest Bevin will be built at Porton Down to research protection against biological threats to the UK and NATO allies.
The Defence Investment Plan funds the drones but hesitates over the spine they depend on, writes Thomas Santini of Lodestar.
Young people will be offered a year of paid experience and training in the Armed Forces under a new 'Gap Year' Foundation Scheme modelled on the Australian Defence Force programme.
Around 300 staff at Govan and Reading have voted for industrial action after rejecting a below-inflation pay offer, Unite says, with final talks scheduled.
