Air

Leonardo and Thales are being contracted by the Ministry of Defence to demonstrate their Infra-Red protection system in trials in early 2018.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has welcomed Qatar’s intent to proceed with the purchase of Typhoon aircraft.

Urgently required vehicles and equipment have been delivered to Pointe-à-Pitre on the French Island of Guadeloupe aboard a Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft.

Saab is to offer the Gripen Aggressor for the UK’s upcoming Air Support to Defence Operational Training programme.

The 12th F-35B for the United Kingdom has taken to the air.

A Royal Air Force C-17 transport aircraft has arrived in France to provide heavy-lift support to French aid efforts in the Caribbean following a request for assistance from French President Emmanuel Macron.

QinetiQ has completed its modernisation of the new Empire Test Pilots’ School fleet with the purchase of two Grob G 120TP fixed wing aircraft.

For the first time, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force pilots have teamed up with fellow F-35 pilots from Italy and the Netherlands to take part in the latest interoperability trials that see coalition forces flying F-35s in a simulated mission scenario with other UK military platforms across land, sea and air. 

BAE Systems LiteHUD head-up display recently took to the skies for its first flight, marking a significant milestone for the technology and the programme.

QinetiQ’s AS3 communications intelligence (COMINT) system is ready to fly as a payload on Thales’s Watchkeeper unmanned aerial vehicle.