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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.

Logistics wins wars, says Rune Technologies co-founder

Wargames still let fuel simply appear and ammunition run infinite, the co-founder of Rune Technologies told #ApexEurope.

Seeing Systems unveils Reaver drone carrier

Seeing Systems has unveiled Reaver, an uncrewed boat built to carry, launch and recover up to a hundred strike drones. #ApexEurope

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Britain leads biggest NATO undersea effort since Cold War

Britain is lead nation for the biggest NATO undersea effort since the Cold War, binding frigates, UUVs and satellites into one network. #ApexEurope

Seeing Systems unveils Reaver drone carrier

Seeing Systems has unveiled Reaver, an uncrewed boat built to carry, launch and recover up to a hundred strike drones. #ApexEurope

Ukrainian strikes blast Russian frigates at Novorossiysk

A single Ukrainian drone attack on Novorossiysk has significantly degraded the land-attack cruise missile capability of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, accounting for forty per cent of its Kalibr-capable surface ships.

Sweden counts its difficult waters as an advantage

The Baltic archipelago defeats sonar, and the Swedish navy treats that as an advantage worth having. #ApexEurope

Robot boat found its way in the Solent without satellites

An uncrewed surface vessel has been navigated through the Solent using radar matched against stored maps of the coastline rather than satellite positioning. #ApexEurope

AVIATION NEWS

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
Two digital-camouflage stealth jets flying over patchwork fields, viewed from above, with contrails behind them.

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.

LAND NEWS

Latvia builds a safe space for defence innovators

Latvia has built a sandbox where companies can work with soldiers without it counting against them in a later competition. #ApexEurope

One person to ten thousand cameras, warns Augur co-founder

Britain has roughly one person able to watch for every ten thousand cameras installed, the co-founder of Augur told the UK Defence Journal. #ApexEurope

Open architecture or we cannot use you, say forces

Equipment that cannot plug into the command system the Army already runs will not get used, a Royal Artillery colonel told #ApexEurope.

Logistics wins wars, says Rune Technologies co-founder

Wargames still let fuel simply appear and ammunition run infinite, the co-founder of Rune Technologies told #ApexEurope.

Car parts giant lends engineers to German missile maker

ZF, one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, is providing engineering services to Diehl Defence on selected development projects, and is seconding its own specialists to work alongside Diehl staff.

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