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The MOD has confirmed the development of a new Royal Navy missile defence system which will be able to intercept and destroy enemy missiles travelling at supersonic speeds.

The £483m contract to develop this cutting-edge air defence system - known as Sea Ceptor - is being awarded to UK industry.

HMS Liverpool recently returned from a seven-month deployment off Libya where she played a key role as part of NATO's task force during the conflict - she also became the first Royal Navy warship to be fired upon in 30 years and returned that fire in self-defence.

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The MOD has agreed a deal for energy companies to fund new wind-farm-friendly radars, with the potential to unlock more than four gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy - enough to power over two million homes.

A new Air Defence Radar that is not adversely affected by wind farms has been read more »

Wildcat, the Navy's next-generation helicopter, has begun its most extensive trials yet, joining a frigate at sea for the first time.

The successor to the trusty Lynx, which has served the Navy and the Army admirably since the 1970s, will spend the next month flying on and off HMS Iron read more »

Giant sacks, specially designed to transport fuel by air to the front line, have been delivered to troops in Afghanistan.

The Air Portable Fuel Containers Mk 5 are enormous rubber balls which enable essential fuel supplies to be delivered by air to more remote areas of operations.

The balloon-like containers, read more »

Royal Navy warship HMS Kent returned to her Portsmouth home in December following a year-long, £24m upgrade in Rosyth, Scotland, which saw major improvements to her systems and equipment.

HMS Kent has benefited from an overhaul of all her hull, upper deck and her complex weapons systems. Key upgrades include read more »

A £400m package of protected vehicles and Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) technology to further improve the protection of British Forces in Afghanistan has been announced by Defence Secretary Philp Hammond.

IEDs are the single greatest threat to our forces in Afghanistan. Improving the protection of our troops on the front read more »

A ceremony has held at AgustaWestland's Yeovil facility to mark the completion of the Lynx Mk9A programme and the scheduled delivery of the 22nd and final Lynx AH Mk9A helicopter to the British Army Air Corps in December 2011. The twenty-two aircraft programme was the result of Urgent Operational Requirement read more »

The Ministry of Defence signed a new £40m contract with BAE Systems yesterday to ensure the UK retains a leading edge in the next generation of combat air systems.

The four-year Future Combat Air System (FCAS) focused research contract aims to sustain and develop the UK's critical technology and skills read more »

The volume of public sector contracts being won by SME suppliers has increased dramatically this year, according to the government.

According to the government’s latest figures 44% of government contracts signed in September were with SMEs. This compared to 5% in January.

Technology SMEs find it particularly difficult to win read more »

The UK now has three groundbreaking Type 45 destroyers ready to deploy on operations after HMS Diamond passed her final, demanding test.

The state-of-the-art warship has come through six weeks of training and assessment off Plymouth, the final hurdle to jump before she can sail on front line duties.

The read more »

HMS Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is to be returned to her former glory thanks to a ten-year restoration programme.

It will be the most extensive restoration of the 246-year-old warship since she was repaired after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

The work will begin this month and read more »

The first of the Royal Navy's new attack submarines, HMS Astute, has blasted Tomahawk missiles far across the North American skies as part of her first test firing mission.

The 5.5-metre-long cruise missile weighs 1,300kg and has a range of more than 1,000 miles (1,600km). In the firing tests this read more »

Type 23 frigate HMS Kent has left Babcock's Rosyth dockyard to start sea trials, with a number of significant upgrades following a successful refit by Babcock.

The demanding and tightly scheduled project has seen HMS Kent receive more than 20 upgrades, as well as undergoing a full programme of deep read more »

The Royal Navy's next-generation helicopter, the Wildcat, has landed on a ship at sea for the first time.

On 7 November, the aircraft touched down on the flight deck of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) aviation trials ship Argus off England's south coast, at the start of four weeks of read more »

HMS Daring will sail from Portsmouth in the New Year, after more than four years of trials, tests and training which have just concluded with eight demanding weeks off Plymouth.
 
The first of six cutting-edge Type 45 destroyers, HMS Daring will sail on her maiden deployment in read more »

After completing over 8,000 hours of flying and almost 1,500 sorties the Tornado Force personnel from RAF Marham have begun returning home after successfully completing their mission to help free Libya and protect the civilian population from attack.
 
The Tornados first launched on Operation ELLAMY on 19 read more »

Royal Navy Warrant Officer Class 1 Rob Fuller has become the first sailor from the Senior Service to be a Yeoman Warder of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress The Tower of London.

Since the rule of Henry VIII, ex-soldiers, and more recently airmen and Royal Marines, have performed the read more »

TV presenter Gethin Jones, the Soldiers, Robin Gibb and  members of HM Armed Forces  attended the launch of the Royal British Legion's 2011 Poppy Appeal, which aims to break previous years' fundraising totals. 

The Poppy Appeal raises funds needed to support those currently serving in Afghanistan, veterans of past conflicts, and their families.

The Prime Minister has today announced that the Army's Warrior infantry fighting vehicle will benefit from a £1bn upgrade.

The vehicles will be fitted with an improved turret and new stabilised 40mm cannon, enabling them to fire while on the move.  They will also benefit from a new standard armour read more »

Fresh from a £40m refit, the helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious has begun two months of intensive training off the south coast of Britain.

Once the training is completed, the Portsmouth-based warship will be the nation's on-call helicopter carrier, ready for global missions

Lynx helicopters from 702 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) read more »

The main construction phase of the Royal Navy's fifth Astute Class submarine, Anson, officially began iast week with a traditional keel-laying ceremony attended by Minister for International Security Strategy Gerald Howarth.
 
The Minister for International Security Strategy, Gerald Howarth, officially marks the start of the main construction read more »

The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron, has officially opened Airbus' new £400 million wing factory in Wales, a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility which will assemble the wings for Airbus' advanced new A350 XWB long-range aircraft family.

The Prime Minister joined hundreds of guests and Airbus employees to unveil the read more »

RAF Tornados operating in support of NATO's Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR to protect the civilian population of Libya from attack have now clocked up over 7,000 flying hours.

That's the equivalent of approximately two years' worth of training sorties back in the UK.

Operating from Gioia del Colle air base in read more »

The Navy's largest and most powerful helicopter, the Merlin, is celebrating ten years on the front line.

The four Merlin squadrons, all based at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, marked the milestone with their first look at the next-generation Merlin, the Mk2, which made its first appearance at the Cornish read more »

Preparations for the assembly of the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers have start as Goliath, one of Europe's largest cranes, swings into action.

This is at Babcock's shipyard in Rosyth and marked the official start of the assembly of the first of the two 65,000-tonne vessels - the largest warships read more »

The first of the enhanced Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) [CVR(T)] fleet is now operational on the front line in Afghanistan.

The up-armoured vehicles are giving extra protection to the soldiers of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, as they provide security in the Nahr-e Saraj (North) district of Helmand province.

The main read more »

The name of the Royal Navy's newest, most capable Astute Class submarine has been formally announced - HMS Anson.
 
HMS Anson is the fifth in her class, and is being named after Admiral of the Fleet George Anson (1697-1762) who is noted for his circumnavigation of the read more »

Cobham Aviation Services has received the first of 12 Airbus Military A330-200 aircraft at its Bournemouth facility for conversion into 'Voyager', the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force.

In recognition of this programme milestone, Cobham Aviation Services hosted an opening ceremony for its newly-refurbished A330 Conversion Centre read more »

During the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEi) exhibition in London, BAE Systems will showcase its Brownout Landing Aid System Technology (BLAST), a situational awareness solution that helps helicopter pilots see in degraded visual environments (DVE).

BAE Systems utilised "off-the-shelf" technology garnered from already-fielded systems in developing BLAST, which addresses read more »

One of the Royal Navy's newest ships, the Type 45 destroyer Dragon, has sailed into her new home of Portsmouth Naval Base today.

The 7,500-tonne vessel has today been formally accepted from shipbuilder BAE Systems and will now undergo a series of tests before being declared ready for operations.

Armed read more »

HMS Edinburgh is currently on a six-month stint in the Southern Ocean, providing reassurance to the people of the Falkland Islands and flying the flag for the UK in this remote part of the world.

The Portsmouth-based destroyer, in the company of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Black Rover, recently read more »

The Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, has announced a contract award for 14 new Chinook helicopters, the RAF's workhorse on the front line in Afghanistan.

The contract with Boeing to supply the Chinook heavy lift helicopters will bring a significant enhancement to the mobility of front line forces. Already the read more »

As an 8,000-tonne hull section of the Royal Navy's latest aircraft carrier begins a 600-mile (966km) journey around the north coast of Scotland, a team of cyclists has set off to try and 'beat the block' to its destination.
 
The mid-section of hull, known as 'lower block read more »

A state-of-the-art new shot detection system called Boomerang III has been introduced in patrol bases and checkpoints on the front line of Helmand province to alert troops immediately to the source of incoming fire.

The acoustic shot detection system detects shots fired at bases, and using a high tech display read more »

The final phase of the MOD's pelvic protection system will be issued to troops on the front line in Afghanistan in the next few months along with a new Personal Clothing System.

The Pelvic Protection System is designed to mitigate the effects of explosions on the front line. With Tiers read more »

RAF Chinook helicopter crews recently travelled to the United States to train for Afghanistan in the heat and high-altitude terrain of southern California.

A large proportion of the RAF Odiham-based force has rotated through US Naval Air Facility El Centro (NAFEC) in southern California in preparation for ongoing operations in read more »

The Royal Navy's oldest frigate, newly rejuvenated following a £20m, year-long refit, is ready to resume her place among the ships of the front line fleet.

The ship's refit included received the latest version of the Seawolf air defence missile system, a new command system, one new main gas turbine, read more »

The RAF's largest ever aircraft has been officially named Voyager after being flown by an RAF pilot at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on 15th July 2011 - its first public appearance.

Fourteen Voyager aircraft and a complete support package are being provided to the RAF under read more »

After 37 years of operational service the Nimrod R1 was retired from service last month.

Following the retirement of the Nimrod MR2 fleet last year, the final two Nimrods, in service with 51 Squadron, bowed out to a 700-strong audience of serving and retired RAF personnel at a ceremony held read more »

The crew of HMS Cornwall said farewell to the ship last week at a decommissioning ceremony at Devonport Naval Base.

The ceremony marked the retirement of the ship from the Royal Navy after 23 years, and was an occasion for the ship's captain, Commander David Wilkinson, to pay tribute to read more »

On Friday, 1 July 2011, the last of RAF Lyneham's Hercules fleet said a final farewell to the base as they flew in a low-level formation across the skies to their new home at RAF Brize Norton.

RAF Lyneham's Station Commander, Group Captain John Gladston, flew the first aircraft to read more »

Construction of the first Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier took a significant step last week as the final rings of the forward hull section came together for the first time at BAE Systems’ facility in Portsmouth Naval Base. 

Two huge ring sections of Lower Block 02 were joined together in read more »

Newly-upgraded Warrior vehicles have saved the lives of British soldiers within weeks of arriving in Afghanistan.

Warrior is the only British tracked infantry vehicle in theatre, able to get to places that wheeled vehicles cannot. This enables the infantry to engage the enemy more effectively in difficult terrain.

Just a read more »

The first upgraded Puma Mk2 helicopter developed by Eurocopter in a life extension programme for the UK's Royal Air Force performed its initial flight this week from Eurocopter's facility at Marignane, France.

It is the first helicopter to be modified under the Puma Life Extension Programme, which was approved by read more »

HMS Illustrious has begun sea trials following the completion of a £40m maintenance and upgrade programme.

The 22,000-tonne ship, affectionately known as 'Lusty', left Rosyth in Fife over the weekend after 16 months in the dockyard where she underwent modifications to turn her into a helicopter and commando carrier, capable read more »

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed an agreement to be the exclusive engine provider for an enhanced version of the Airbus A350-1000 aircraft.

The new higher thrust version of the Trent XWB, which is the most advanced civil aircraft engine on offer in the world, will deliver 97,000 read more »

The Royal Navy's most capable and up-to-date Trafalgar Class hunter-killer submarine, HMS Trenchant, was ceremonially welcomed back into the operational fleet at a special event on Friday, 3 June.

The submarine entered the Devonport submarine refit complex late in 2009 and after many months of hard work by Royal Navy read more »

The British Army's Apache attack helicopter has clocked up a landmark 100,000 flying hours, a third of which have been flown on operations in Afghanistan.
 
The achievement - equivalent to a single helicopter staying aloft for 11-and-a-half years - has occurred as the Apache has become a read more »

BAE Systems has celebrated the completion of the 100th Typhoon aircraft which was built in the UK's final assembly facility at Warton in Lancashire. Typhoon is the world's most advanced multi-role combat aircraft and it plays a vital role in sustaining key manufacturing skills in the United Kingdom.

As part read more »

The first steel for the HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, has been cut by Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox.

Dr Fox started the computer-guided laser to cut the first piece of hull for the ship at a ceremony at the read more »

BAE Systems has been awarded long term contracts worth a total of £39m by the  MoD to provide support services to ensure that Typhoon continues to maintain its ability to operate in all types of environments.

The development work covered by the contracts will enhance the RAF's capability to process read more »

The ship that will fulfil HMS Endurance's role as an interim Antarctic patrol vessel entered Portsmouth Naval Base for the first time on Monday 23 May 2011.

The ice-breaker MV Polarbjorn - to be named HMS Protector - has been leased on a three-year contract from Norwegian company GC Rieber read more »

The Royal Navy's flagship Type 45 destroyer, HMS Daring, has successfully fired her groundbreaking new air defence missile system for the first time.

HMS Daring, the first of the formidable next generation of warships to be built, fired her world-leading air defence missile system, Sea Viper, during a rigorous training read more »

British Army Apache helicopters have recently fired Hellfire missiles for the first time whilst flying from a Royal Navy warship.
 
In a significant milestone in proving the capability of Apache to operate and strike from the sea, 30mm rounds and Hellfire missiles were successfully fired against seaborne read more »

Mobile whole body scanning will be available to British Forces medical teams following the award of a contract to Marshall SV, part of Cambridge based Marshall Land Systems, to supply a mobile containerised CT Scanner to the UK Ministry of Defence.

This proven system, currently in-service with the Norwegian Military, read more »

The latest of the Royal Navy's new Type 45 air defence destroyers has been formally commissioned into the fleet.

HMS Diamond is one of six multi-role vessels being built to provide air defence using the Sea Viper missile system

She can embark 60 troops and their equipment, supported by a read more »

Babcock has started work on HMS Shoreham, the Royal Navy's newest Sandown class single role minehunter, now in dock at Rosyth for a five month Support Period.

As well as a substantial maintenance package, the programme includes a number of upgrades which will significantly improve the ship's operational capability. Building read more »

The Royal Navy’s patrol vessel HMS Clyde will remain in the South Atlantic to protect the Falklands Islands until 2018, following a six year contract extension with BAE Systems to deliver 24/7 support services to the ship.

Ensuring maximum value to the Ministry of Defence, HMS Clyde’s enhanced capabilities enable read more »

The first of the RAF's future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) has arrived in the UK.  The UK's largest ever military aircraft will be known as 'Voyager'.
 
With a 60m wingspan, and measuring nearly 60m from nose to tail, Voyager, a dual role air-to-air tanker and transport aircraft read more »

British soldiers battling the Taliban in Afghanistan will get better protection from attacks by insurgents thanks in part to the teamwork shown by the RAF and the Australian Defence Force.

Troops in Helmand province have now taken early delivery of the new 20-foot-long (6m) Wolfhound variant of the Cougar armoured read more »

A British industry team, at Chalgrove Airfield in Oxfordshire, led by BAE Systems has completed the final tests on the ejection or escape system for all variants of the F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft. The system has been certified as safe for flight after a series of rigorous tests. The read more »

The Ministry of Defence has become the first customer for a Thales UK multirole missile in an unusual deal which has seen the final part of another contract with the company cancelled to release funds for the new weapon.

Known as the Lightweight Multi-role Missile (lmm), the weapon will make read more »

The Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate, HMS Lancaster, is undergoing an extensive refit at Portsmouth Naval Base as part of a £17.9 million contract with BAE Systems, reflecting the Company’s continued growth in support services.
 
The mid-life upkeep will significantly upgrade the capability of the 20 year read more »

The Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is to be replaced with a Norwegian ship on a three-year loan basis.
 
Speaking in the House of Lords this week, Lord Astor, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, said the new ship, to be read more »

RAF Typhoons flew their first ever combat mission yesterday while patrolling the no-fly zone over Libya in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973.

UK aircraft are helping to patrol the no-fly zone alongside our international allies.

The Chief of the Defence Staff's Strategic Communications Officer, Major General read more »

A new form of armoured netting which can stop rocket-propelled grenades damaging vehicles was one of the items showcased at an event to mark National Science and Engineering Week that ran 11th - 20th March.

The event gave an insight into current technologies being deployed in support of our Armed read more »

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Campbeltown has marked her final sailing from her affiliated town of Campbeltown with an eleven-gun salute, prior to her decommissioning later this year.

In an emotional farewell, HMS Campbeltown slipped her moorings and sailed past the heart of the town for the final time. The read more »

The Royal Navy amphibious landing ship HMS Bulwark has returned to the Royal Navy's operational fleet and is ready for any tasking worldwide.
 
The project team successfully met significant challenges, including severe adverse weather conditions, to keep the programme on schedule. This was the ship's first docking read more »

Commercial vehicle climate control specialist Webasto based in Doncaster has been chosen to supply heating systems on machines in JCB's largest British Army order for over 25 years.

ALC, a joint venture between Amey plc and Babcock International Group plc, which is the service provider to the Ministry of Defence read more »

The Royal Air Force's Number 13 and 14 Tornado squadrons are to be disbanded and formally stood down on 1 June 2011.

Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) had to consider how best to make reductions against the background of the fiscal situation and as a result of this the read more »

Rolls Royce has been selected to supply a unique replenishment-at-sea (RAS) system to the Royal Navy. It will enable heavier-than-ever loads to be transferred between moving ships, more than doubling the amount of vital supplies which can be moved per transfer.

Rolls Royce has already completed the detailed design phase read more »

Flight testing of the first Chinook Mk4 aircraft for the RAF has taken place.  The aircraft is the first of 38 Boeing Mk2/2A helicopters to be modified into the new Mk4/4A configuration under Project Julius which is also modifying eight Mk3 Chinooks into new Mk5 aircraft.  Project Julius, the name read more »

The latest nuclear class submarine Ambush, has emerged from BAE Systems’ yard in Barrow.  The 7,400 tonne, 97-metre long boat was slowly moved from the company’s giant Devonshire Dock Hall last month and lowered into the water to begin the next phase of its test and commissioning process.

BAE Systems read more »

Airbus Military has begun air-to-air refuelling trials of the A400M airlifter using a Vickers VC10 tanker of the RAF operating from Toulouse.

A400M development aircraft Grizzly 1 performed a series of dry contacts with the VC10´s
fuselage-mounted hose drum unit (HDU) on the first day of the trials read more »

A purpose-built workshop for the in-theatre maintenance and repair of UK military vehicles was recently opened in Camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan.
 
Staffed by up to 130 military engineers and Defence Support Group (DSG) civilians, the multi-million pound facility will mean that vehicles no longer have to be read more »

Construction of the first of the two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth, took a huge step forward as workers at BAE Systems' Govan yard moved two giant sections of the hull together for the first time.

The structure is so big that it fills an read more »

Cubic Defense Applications (CDA), the defence systems segment of Cubic Corporation, has received a $40 million contract for the expansion and modernization of the instrumentation for the British Army's Salisbury Plain ground combat training range. The contract was awarded to Cubic as part of an urgent operational requirement to enhance read more »

BAE Systems Mission Systems has been awarded a seven-year, £47m contract by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide support for the Combat Management System (CMS) on the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus.

The CMS assists a ship's command in detecting and countering threats read more »

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) covering the second five year period of the 25-year Integrated Merlin Operational Support (IMOS) contract. The contract for the period 2011 to 2016 is valued at approximately £570 million.

Technologies which could deliver benefits to the front line of the future were shown off by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) who have received MOD research contracts at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in London..

Defence Minister Peter Luff announced at the event that nine new contracts, worth read more »

Lockheed Martin is collaborating with several UK companies to provide an advanced naval radar demonstrator as part of a joint U.S. Navy and Royal Navy research program that will help guide performance improvements to existing and planned radar systems in both the U.S. and U.K.

The Advanced Radar Technology Integrated read more »

As part of its growing commitment to “Empowering Small to Medium Enterprises” Defence Solutions Ltd, in conjunction with its sister company Support4SME Ltd, has launched its Supplier Development Service.   The service is aimed at enhancing the capability of companies in tackling a number of the areas as follows:

• Submission of read more »

Welcome to the Eurofighter Typhoon's latest weapon - not something slung under the wing - but a system with 'brains' that sits on the pilot's head.

The 'Helmet Mounted Symbology System' designed by BAE Systems, is a highly sophisticated helmet and support system that lets the pilot 'see' through the read more »

The most complex military sales case the UK has undertaken with the US Air Force for the last 70 years is well under way.

DE&S' Airseeker programme will see the Boeing RC-135 aircraft – Rivet Joint – take over airborne signals intelligence later in the decade.

Three Boeing KC-135 tankers read more »

Tributes were paid to the joint force of Royal Navy and RAF Harrier jump jets on 15th December 2010 as 16 of the aircraft flew in a diamond formation over eastern England to mark the aircraft's retirement after 41 years of service.

The formation of 16 Harriers took to the read more »

The British Army's Hermes 450 (H450) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have achieved the outstanding milestone of providing over 30,000 hours of support to UK forces on current operations in Afghanistan.

The H450 is operated and maintained by 32 Regiment Royal Artillery based at Roberts Barracks, Larkhill, Wiltshire.

H450 is a read more »

A major upgrade to the Type 23 frigate HMS Kent is being undertaken by Babcock at Rosyth.

In what is a demanding and tightly scheduled project, which will further demonstrate Babcock's close long-term partnering relationship with the MoD, the fit of Sonar 2087, the tactical variable depth active and passive read more »

Force Protection Europe has announced that it has signed a contract with the MoD to supply an order of 200 Ocelots and an initial spares package for the Light Protected Patrol Vehicles (LPPV) program. The contract is valued at approximately £180 million with delivery of the vehicles scheduled to begin read more »

AgustaWestland is pleased to announce that the third and final AW159 test aircraft successfully completed its maiden flight on 19th November at AgustaWestland's Yeovil facility in the UK. During its maiden flight a range of general handling checks were completed and it performed as expected. The aircraft, designated TI3, is read more »

A Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ship has disrupted a group of pirates operating in the west of the Indian Ocean.

During a patrol of the waters between the Somali coast and the Seychelles yesterday, Sunday 14 November 2010, RFA Fort Victoria was alerted to a suspicious vessel in the area.

BAE Systems has delivered the first order of a new helmet-mounted optical sighting system to the Royal Navy, addressing a mission-critical need for increased air door gunner situational awareness on helicopters. BAE Systems, prime contractor for the Lynx PT, earlier this month delivered 12 Q-Sight(tm) Gunner Remote Sighting Systems (GRSS) read more »

The latest Type 45 destroyer, HMS Dauntless, has entered service with the Royal Navy.

The warship, which has a hull made of 2,800 tonnes of steel, is the second in the fleet of six air defence destroyers and has undergone months of extensive sea trials. She recently returned from the read more »

The Government has announced funding for defence for the next four years.  The announcement comes from the spending review to allocate resources to Government departments, run alongside the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR). 

Funding of £33.8 billion has been agreed for defence in 2011-12, £34.4 billion in 2012-13, £34.1 read more »

Her Majesty The Queen visited the fleet flagship HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth on Friday 5 November 2010, to celebrate the aircraft carrier's 25th anniversary of service in the Royal Navy.
 
During a quayside service of commemoration, The Queen inspected a Guard of Honour comprising members of read more »

Six freefall paratroopers made jumps from aircraft Grizzly Three in separate passes from 6,000ft at the Fonsorbes drop zone near Toulouse on Thursday 4th November.

The paratroopers, two each from the UK armed forces, French armed forces, and the French Centre d'Essais en Vol reported that the aircraft was easier read more »

A Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel, deployed as part of an international naval task force operating in the Somali Basin, has located, boarded and destroyed a pirate whaling vessel found to be carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

RFA Fort Victoria, under the command of Captain Rob Dorey, part of Task read more »

Defence Solutions Ltd has again provided vital assistance to Newton Derby (a division of Winder Power Ltd), one of our key account customers, who have just been awarded a contract to replace a standby generator for one of HM Prisons.  This is one of a number of similar contracts that read more »

After an ISO 9001 Continuing Assessment visit, from one of the BSI assessment team, Defence Solutions received an excellent report and because we had encompassed the new 2008 regulations into our Quality Management System we have been upgraded to ISO 9001 - 2008.

Certainly, it is excellent news not just read more »

Defence Solutions Ltd has been successful in becoming a participating contractor in the MoD Multi-Particpant Framework Agreement for Technical Support - FATS/3 contract.  Whilst Defence Solutions Ltd had already been an MoD FATS2 contractor it is particuarly pleasing to be once again accredited and the company looks foward to responding read more »