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The DE&S Future Capability Group (FCG) have launched the second round of the Heavy Lift Challenge. The challenge, which sees uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) put through their paces, was organised in collaboration with the Royal Navy 700X Naval Air Squadron and for the Royal Navy Office for the Chief Technology Officer. The Heavy Lift Challenge…

The Royal Navy has pushed two different drones to their limits to show how they could be used on front-line operations. The navy’s drone experts 700X Naval Air Squadron welcomed industry partners to their home base of RNAS Culdrose to test the two crewless aircraft. It is the second time the drones have been trialled with initial…

The Royal Navy has been testing uncrewed aircraft's capabilities of delivering heavy payloads in different environments with the goal of using the t...

As part of the broader British Army's human machine teaming (HMT) programme, the Future Capability Group (FCG) will launch a competition this year for the ‘Data Management Service', Lieutenant Colonel Iain Lamont, SO1 Robotics & Autonomous S...

DefendTex D40 nano-unmanned aerial vehicle. UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Future Capability Group (FCG) acquired nano-unmanned aerial vehicles (nUAS) from Elbit Systems and Atlas Dynamics, as part of the British Army's Robotics and...

A new ambulance variant of the Al Jasoor Rabdan 8×8 armoured vehicle was displayed for the first time at the World Defense Show (WDS) in Riyadh on 6–9 March 2022. The vehicle can be configured to carry two medics, two stretchered patients, a...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed the purchase of two Ghost Robotics Corporation Vision 60 (V60) quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (Q-UGVs) for experimentation. Valued at GBP449,000 (USD590,332), the contract – let by the Def...

The Integrated Review has set the British Army to spend £23-billion on their modernisation in the next four years. A part of this will go into the reorganisation of the British Army into seven Brigade Combat Teams (BCT).

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded three contracts worth a combined GBP9 million (USD12.15 million) as part of its efforts to accelerate the development of autonomous capabilities for unmanned ‘last mile supply' vehicles, a spokesm...

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announced at a press conference on 26 January that an agreement had been reached on the acquisition of Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) from the United States. Croatian Prime Minister Andrej ...