Cody unveils Badger missile and Ordnance One factory plans
A British company founded in February, Cody Aerospace and Defence, has announced its first missile, aiming at a replenishment cycle of under a year against the three years it takes now. #ApexEurope
Edgewing opens first GCAP engineering site in Turin
The joint venture designing the next generation fighter for Britain, Italy and Japan has opened an engineering site in Turin, the first of three planned facilities, with British and Japanese sites due to follow in the coming months.
The missile is the easy part of deep precision strike
Defining deep precision strike as the ability to put a missile on a target hundreds of kilometres away is thinking about the problem too narrowly, said Luke Wattam, co-founder of the British company Labrys Technologies at #ApexEurope.
Electronic warfare is driving the move to autonomy
The spread of localised electronic warfare across the front in Ukraine is what is pushing drones towards autonomy, the head of UK land at Helsing told the #ApexEurope conference in London.
We have always found a route to yes, says air regulator
The Military Aviation Authority has yet to meet an uncrewed system for which it could not find a path to approval, its head of regulation and certification told the #ApexEurope conference in London on Wednesday.
Uncrewed Systems Centre to pull drone buying together
A newly arrived two-star now has the job of making British drone buying cohere, the Military Aviation Authority told #ApexEurope.
Two of Britain’s new E-7 aircraft airborne
Both of the Royal Air Force's delivered Boeing E-7 Wedgetail aircraft were flying at the same time on Thursday afternoon, the first occasion on which the two have been airborne together.
Open an office in Ukraine, officer tells defence firms
Open an office in Ukraine and ask what the problem is before trying to sell us anything, a Ukrainian officer told #ApexEurope.
High explosive payloads keep a human in the loop
Where a person sits in the decision depends on what the system is carrying, and anything with a high explosive payload will keep a human in the loop, a panel on autonomous mass heard at #ApexEurope.
Ukraine built ballistic missile in just over two years
A Ukrainian firm took a ballistic missile from nothing to combat use in just over two years, against a fifteen year average. #ApexEurope
