UK unveils first locally built Boxer armored vehicle
Platforms are expected to enter service by the end of 2030 with a first batch of Boxers comprising 540 platforms, RBSL officials confirmed to Breaking Defense.
UK looks to protect funding for rapid Watchkeeper UAV replacement
Lt. Gen. Robert Magowan did not elaborate further on the replacement effort but did note that the Watchkeeper retirement will allow the MoD to still save "quite a lot of money" that would otherwise go toward support costs for the aircraft.
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UK ‘not in a place’ to have Brimstone missiles in addition to JAGM for Apaches: Official
From an Apache perspective, Lockheed's JAGM is a "very capable addition to the current weapon inventory,” said Lt. Col. Rich Simcock, 3 Regt. Army Air Corp (AAC) Commanding Officer.
AUKUS army chiefs’ lessons from Ukraine: ‘Explosion’ in autonomy, value of long-range fires
The US Army chief, Gen. Randy George, offered an intriguing possible win for AUKUS Pillar 2: "a common controller" for unmanned systems, allowing the three allies to exchange systems.
‘Hard going’: Ukraine counteroffensive tested by Russian army rebuild, says UK senior official
“We think they [Russian army] have a [reconnaissance strike] response time that sits between three and six minutes at the moment, and it's getting better over time,” said a senior UK military official.
Revealed: First look at UK’s Challenger 3 main battle tank prototype
“The Challenger 3 program will deliver the best tank in NATO ... and deliver a network enabled, digital main battle tank, providing the soldier with a step changing capability," said Rory Breen, strategy and future business director at RBSL.
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
No contracts yet: UK’s plan for thousands of drones for Ukraine in ‘very early stages’
Despite the UK MoD not signing off on any orders for the latest drone package, aircraft likely to be under consideration are smaller size systems, particularly soldier portable or “over the hill” drones similar to Teledyne FLIR Black Hornets, one analyst said.
British Army runs armed drone test campaign to assess urban warfare strike options
“This evidence will further inform the concept of recce-strike at all levels as outlined in the Land Operating Concept; urban operations doctrine development and human-machine teaming, while also acting as a technology horizon-scanning tool,” said a British Army spokesperson
Raytheon UK confident laser weapon can secure British Army production contract
“I think once we get towards the end of next year, and they [the MoD] really do have the system in their hands, that will to be the timeframe where they're really able to nail down what those [production] requirements are," said Nicole Roberts, programme manager for high energy laser weapons at Raytheon.
Shelling out: UK, BAE Systems seal $162M contract for heavy munitions stockpile renewal
The latest munitions package is in line with the British Army's wider ambition of undertaking an extensive modernisation campaign based on a budget of £41 billion ($51 billion) over 10 years.
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UK awards BAE Systems $113M Trinity tactical network contract
BAE Systems will be supported at an industrial level by US firms L3 Harris and KBR, an engineering company headquartered in Texas.
UK command paper’s new acquisition timeline a ‘laudable aim’ amid economic gloom: Analysts
In its new paper, the British Ministry of Defence is “trying to make a virtue of fundamental and structural weaknesses” associated with spending and equipment problems, analyst Joshua Huminski told Breaking Defense.
With an eye on Ukraine, head of British Army says ‘mass is still indispensable’
"We should treat many of these lessons with caution; one wonders what shape we would be in if, in the first few days after the Russian invasion, we had sold off our armor to invest in [Turkish made Bayraktar] TB2 or one-way attack drones," said Gen. Patrick Sanders, British Army Chief of the General Staff.
Britbots: UK tests 3 heavy uncrewed ground vehicles in first time event
The tests are a step toward “what could potentially be achieved on the battlefield with crewless vehicles in the next 10, 20 or 30 years,” said Lt. Col. James de St John-Pryce, commanding officer of the British Army's Armoured Trials and Development Unit.