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Britain’s Armed Forces are set to be strengthened and thousands of British jobs created through a drone transformation, announced by the Prime Minister and backed by more than £5 billion […]

Oxfordshire SME demonstrates 900km-range autonomous effector to Secretary of State for Defence as programme moves towards Q4 scale-up. MGI Engineering has publicly showcased TigerShark, its high-speed long-range autonomous one-way effector, […]

The National Armaments Director Group has awarded Leonardo (UK) Ltd an initial £27 million contract to supply consumable spares across the UK Armed Forces’ complete fixed-wing and rotary-wing fleet, in […]

The United Kingdom and five European allies have formally marked the transition of the European Long-Range Strike Approach from a requirements-setting framework to active implementation, with distinct ELSA Implementation Groups […]

Leonardo and Turkish unmanned systems manufacturer Baykar have completed the first phase of live flight trials under the K-SWARM programme, successfully demonstrating crewed/uncrewed teaming between Leonardo’s M-346 Fighter Attack aircraft […]

The RAF’s rotary-wing capability in Cyprus has been significantly strengthened with the delivery of two Airbus H145 Jupiter HC Mk2 helicopters to 84 Squadron, marking a major milestone in a […]

Honeywell has announced Kestrel, a new compact Embedded GNSS/INS (EGI) navigation system designed for uncrewed aerial systems operating in GPS-jammed and spoofed environments. The system is aimed squarely at the […]

Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis MP has opened Europe’s largest drone testing and development facility in Swindon, establishing the UK’s Uncrewed Systems Centre (USC) at the new DroneTEX site as the […]

Europe’s largest drone testing centre has officially opened in Swindon, representing a shift in UK defence innovation – based on lessons learned from both the Ukraine and Iran conflicts. The […]

A new Rapid AI Delivery unit has been announced, created to prepare the UK for the future of warfare, by putting AI-enabled tools into the hand of Britain’s Armed Forces. […]

June 2026 marks four years since the inception of Operation Interflex – the UK-led multinational training programme that has trained over 63,000 Ukrainian personnel as infantry, leaders and instructors over […]

Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft and supporting personnel are currently deployed to Romania on Operation BILOXI, contributing to NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission on the Alliance’s eastern flank alongside Romanian […]

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