UK Defence Journal

Proteus demonstrator to get American autonomy software

Army still wants an armoured mortar but currently has no route

The Army continues to require an armoured mortar capability and is looking at alternative ways of delivering it, including through the Heavy Protected Mobility programme, which remains in its concept...

Early warning radar flown on Protector type airframe

General Atomics and Saab have flown an airborne early warning radar on an uncrewed MQ-9B, the same aircraft the Royal Air Force operates as Protector, tracking fighter jets and commercial aircraft...

Navantia UK raises apprentice target by half

Army standing up a Deep Recce Strike Brigade

The Army has approved and is implementing a Deep Recce Strike Brigade to pull intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and precision strike together at corps level.

Restricted airspace now covers fifty defence sites

Restricted airspace has been applied over fifty defence sites and a further one hundred and seventy are expected to follow in December, part of a wider effort to harden British military bases against...

BAE to build thirty five thousand guidance kits a year

British stratospheric spy flight planned for next year

Project AETHER is planning a multi-payload, long endurance flight in the 2027-28 financial year to demonstrate a broader range of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection from...

Saab launches space command and control platform

Saab has launched the Allied Mission System, a cloud-based platform that brings space domain awareness, mission management and command and control together so that operators can watch and respond to...

Hanwha signs four deals with Lithuanian firms

Hanwha Aerospace has signed four memoranda of understanding with Lithuanian companies covering work on its forty millimetre wheeled anti-aircraft gun.

Ground crews still excluded from nuclear test medal

There are no plans to extend the Nuclear Test Medal to personnel of 543 and 27 Squadrons who recovered, washed, decontaminated and maintained aircraft used for nuclear cloud sampling.

Guards given two days notice for Downing Street

The unarmed ceremonial guard mounted in Downing Street was provided by No. 12 Company Irish Guards on 14 October, and the soldiers were notified two days beforehand.

Sweden orders four Bofors naval gun systems

BAE Systems has won a contract from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration for four Bofors 57Mk3 naval gun systems along with 57mm 3P ammunition, according to the company.

Falklands defences robust despite ice ship gap

Britain's military presence in the South Atlantic is at the appropriate level for the defence of the Falkland Islands, and the absence of an ice patrol ship does not change that, according to...