Startup Certo Aerospace, developing an uncrewed co-axial rotorcraft, has won a UK Defense Ministry contract to demonstrate logistics and medevac capabilities.
The UK Defense Ministry is seeking a low-cost tactical ballistic missile capable of hitting targets about 370 mi. away, with a price tag of around $675,000.
The UK issued an urgent request for information to industry for a low-cost means to engage jet-powered one-way-attack drones Russia is using against Ukraine.
The British Army has begun to engage with industry on the acquisition of an autonomous collaborative platform to operate alongside its Apache helicopters.
Russia has launched a crash program to harden military airfields near the border with Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s successful strikes with one-way attack UAS.
The UK is adding trials of high-altitude balloons to its effort deploy stratospheric capabilities for intelligence gathering and communications functions.
The UK government will lay out plans to slash fielding times for most equipment in a bid to be more responsive, says UK Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard.
The new UK Strategic Defense Review is clear on threats and what is needed to deal with them, but opaque on how and when these measures will be funded.
Teasing the long-awaited Strategic Defense Review to be published June 2, UK Defense Secretary John Healey said the UK needs to bolster its defense industrial base.
The UK Defense Ministry has lifted the lid on the second ground-based air defense system it has rapidly developed for use in Ukraine referred to as Raven.
France, Italy and the UK have agreed to accelerate delivery of Aster air and missile defense interceptors as part of a top-up order for 218 additional missiles.
Airbus has secured the deal to provide the British military with an SAR system as part of the UK’s effort to build up indigenous Earth-observation capacity.
Saab is in talks with the UK Defense Ministry to potentially upgrade its Giraffe Agile Multibeam Radar system that would boost its operationally utility after more than a decade of service.
The MOD is asking industry for ideas to field a low-observable vessel for Ukraine that could be used to strike targets at a range of up to 100 km (62 mi.).
The UK and partners are including more counter-uncrewed air systems (C-UAS) and loitering munitions in a new £225 million ($284 million) package for Ukraine.
