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Canada ‘spy’ sold US, Australia, UK secrets: report
A Canadian naval officer arrested this year for allegedly leaking secrets may also have compromised top level Australian, British and American intelligence, a report said Wednesday. Jeffrey Delisle, a naval intelligence officer, was charged by a Canadian court in January with communicating over the past five years “with a foreign entity, information that the government [...]
UK Takes Delivery of First Lightning II Fighter Jet
he first of the UK’s next-generation stealth combat aircraft has today been handed over to the MoD. At a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond formally accepted the first jet which will be known as Lightning II. The aircraft are Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, manufactured [...]
International Community Will Ensure Strait Of Hormuz Stays Open
Iranian leaders must understand that the international community will ensure the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf will remain open, the American and British defense secretaries said here today. For years, various Iranian leaders have threatened to shut the passage — a crucial international waterway through which passes roughly 25 percent [...]
HMS Dragon Tests Sea Viper Missiles
HMS Dragon successfully tested her Sea Viper missile defence system for the first time, during sea trials off the West coast of Scotland. The Royal Navy’s newest Type-45 destroyer, which is proudly affiliated with the Welsh capital Cardiff, blasted an Aster missile out of her silo at three times the speed of sound, obliterating an [...]
BAE, IBM to Jointly Bid for UK Air Defense Network
We have joined forces with IBM to bid for the first increment of the UK Network Enabled Airspace Defence & Surveillance (NEADS) programme NEADS is the future Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) programme which will replace Rapier missiles and introduce networked command and control, providing protection against air attack to UK forces when deployed on [...]
A400M Simulator Contract Awarded By UK MoD
The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded a multi-million pound contract to supply the first full-flight simulator (FFS) for the Royal Air Force A400M military transport aircraft, recently designated Atlas by the European purchasing nations. The FFS employs state-of-the-art visual and motion technology developed and produced by Thales UK at its facility in Crawley, West [...]
Mantis Concept Demonstrator Targeted to Fly In the UK
BAE Systems has announced its intention to re-fly the Mantis UAS Concept Demonstrator – this time in UK airspace. This will be the first flight of a UAS (Unmanned Air System) of this class in UK airspace Flying Mantis will enable the Company to continue to mature a number of UAS capabilities and technologies, underpinning [...]
UK PM Opens Farnborough International Air Show 2012
The Prime Minister has hailed the phenomenal success of the UK aerospace industry and its critical importance to growth and jobs, as the next steps towards exploiting the growth potential of Typhoon were announced, and a £50 million pound contract to build a new simulator for the A400M defence aircraft is to be signed – [...]
Russian Participation in UK Airshow Mired in Scandals
The Russian Knights, one of the world’s best aerobatic teams, missed on Thursday the planned deadline for their departure to the British airshow in Farnborough over the lack of Russian bureaucratic paperwork, a source from the team said. The move could be an implicit answer to Britain stalling on visas for Russian participants of the [...]
