UK, Sweden and Italy have begun trilateral industry discussions to strengthen collaboration between the three nations, as they develop future combat air capability. The new trilateral framework sees industry from the three nations bringing together their skills and expertise in the combat air sector to collaborate on the research and development of cutting-edge technologies.
The three national industries comprise defence companies from the UK (BAE Systems, Leonardo UK, Rolls Royce and MBDA UK),.
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UK, Sweden and Italy have begun trilateral industry discussions to strengthen collaboration between the three nations, as they develop future combat air capability. The new trilateral framework sees industry from the three nations bringing together their skills and expertise in the combat air sector to collaborate on the research and development of cutting-edge technologies.
The three national industries comprise defence companies from the UK (BAE Systems, Leonardo UK, Rolls Royce and MBDA UK),.
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2020-12-23T22:35:00+00:00
Working as part of a pan-European military aircraft enterprise is nothing new for Elettronica. The Italian electronic warfare (EW) specialist – founded in Rome 70 years ago and still family-run – has since the 1990s been the country’s champion on the EuroDASS consortium that provides the Praetorian defensive aids subsystem (DASS) on the Eurofighter Typhoon. Before that, it played a role in the Panavia Tornado programme.
Source: Team Tempest
Elettronica is one of four Italian businesses on Team Tempest
Now the firm is one of four Italian industrial representatives working with the UK’s Team Tempest in developing a successor to the Typhoon – the Tempest future combat air system. The effort pits aerospace and defence companies in Italy, Sweden and the UK alongside their counterparts in France, Germany and Spain, which are collaborating on a rival project spearheaded by Dassault and Airbus Defence & Space to design a rival next-generation fighte
By Craig Hoyle2020-12-17T15:24:00+00:00
One certainty for 2021 is that Europe’s parallel efforts to develop the region’s next-generation Future Combat Air System (FCAS) will not see a convergence.
Indeed, the rival activities – which respectively involve the defence ministries and industrial champions of France, Germany and Spain; and Italy, Sweden and the UK – will make significant progress along their separate tracks.
Source: A Almansa/Dassault
Airbus Defence & Space and Dassault are working on New Generation Fighter concept
Paris, Berlin and Madrid are participating in an FCAS programme including the design of a New Generation Fighter, with Dassault and Airbus Defence & Space at the forefront.
Leonardo employees Ben Sithole and Alisha Shrestha A MANUFACTURER with hundreds of staff in Southampton has been hailed a “UK business hero” and saluted by royalty. Leonardo was among the firms praised by the British Chambers of Commerce for supporting their local communities during the coronavirus crisis. Leonardo employs more than 7,500 people across the UK, including more than 400 people at First Avenue in Millbrook Industrial Estate, Southampton. The company was named a UK Business Hero for its work to deliver key capability to the Armed Forces’ current and future programmes, as well as for supporting their transportation of personnel and supplies around the country in response to the pandemic.