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MoD Announces Change of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced that plans to deliver Carrier Strike capability will now be executed using a different type of Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jet than was planned. The MOD will move away from the Carrier Variant (CV) JSF and our Armed Forces will instead operate the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) [...]
MOD Personnel Help Secure Libyan Portable Air Defence Systems
MOD personnel deployed in Libya to make safe man-operated portable air defence systems (MANPADS) have now returned to the UK. The military and civilian personnel, who worked alongside Libyan, American and French colleagues, first deployed to Benghazi in August last year and have since operated from Misurata and Tripoli. The joint teams have inspected more [...]
ST Kinetics Clarifies Media Reports on the Debarment by Indian MoD
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering)’s land systems arm, Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd (ST Kinetics), refers to various media reports on the debarment by Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) from business dealings with the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). While the Indian media has since 2009 reported that Indian authorities have blacklisted seven companies including ST [...]
Second tranche of Armed Forces redundancies announced
The Armed Forces are today announcing the fields from which they will select those to be made redundant in Tranche 2 of the Armed Forces Redundancy Programme. Plans to reduce the size of the Army by 7,000 personnel and both the Navy and RAF by 5,000 personnel by 2015 in order to ensure our Armed [...]
MOD Paves Way for New Wind-Farm-Friendly Radars
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 installed and tested on the [...]
UK Sending Destroyer HMS Daring to Persian Gulf
The Royal Navy’s newest and most advanced ship is being sent to the Gulf for her first mission. It comes amid heightened tensions with Iran over threats by Tehran to block a busy shipping lane. Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring, which employs a “stealth” design to help avoid detection, is to join the British presence [...]
UK MoD Invests £400M in New Counter-IED Technology
The Defence Secretary today announced a £400m package of protected vehicles and Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) technology to further improve the protection of British Forces in Afghanistan. IEDs are the single greatest threat to our forces in Afghanistan. Improving the protection of our forces on the front line is the military’s number one priority, and [...]
MoD Invests In Future of Combat Air Systems
The Ministry of Defence has today signed a new £40 million contract with BAE Systems 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 in this field. [...]
MoD needs to axe 700 senior defence posts: report
The “top-heavy” Ministry of Defence needs to shed more than 700 senior officers and civil servants over the next three years, according to a leaked MoD document published by the Guardian on Sunday. The department also needs to axe a further 335 senior posts before 2020 to help plug a 38-billion-pound ($59 billion, 45.3 billion [...]
