UK sets out FTUAS requirement to counter FIAC threat
by Richard Scott
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has outlined an accelerated plan to acquire a number of uncrewed air systems and ancillaries to meet a Royal Navy (RN) requirement for enhanced situational awareness to counter fast inshore attack craft (FIAC) threats in an operational theatre.
Announcing the Flexible Tactical Uncrewed Air System (FTUAS) urgent capability requirement (UCR) on 25 May, the MoD said it was seeking a military owned and operated solution to find, fix, track, and assess FIACs – both crewed and uncrewed – operating alone or in large numbers.
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With its 100th operational aircraft delivered and several key development hurdles cleared within the last 18 months, the A400M is now “at a turning point”, the Airbus Defence & Space official in charge of the programme believes.
Speaking exclusively to FlightGlobal on 20 May, Clive Schley, A400M programme head at the company’s military aircraft unit, also voiced his optimism about future additional sales of the Atlas – both to existing operators and new international customers.
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The A400M programme was formally launched in May 2003, with partner nations Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey and the UK committing to a combined 170 examples, and export buyer Malaysia four.
Late last week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called to accelerate the country s COVID-19 vaccination programme to contain the rapid spread of the Indian variant of.
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Orders to the Royal Artillery and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers that were reportedly issued earlier this week, warn that anyone who is refusing to have a coronavirus jab “is to be educated by the CoC [Chain of Command] and any rumours quashed”.
The documents stipulate that if the person in question “still refuses, they may be deemed as unfit to soldier and dealt with accordingly as the CV-19 jab may be a requirement to deploy on operations/exercises, much like yellow fever.”