UK Awards Laser Weapon Experimental Contracts
Three companies will split a $100 million contract to develop test beds for directed energy weapons.
Three companies will split a $100 million contract to develop test beds for directed energy weapons.
Analysts say the trilateral defense pact could set precedents and become a 20-year endeavor for the countries involved.
"This does not mean there are not constructive areas of engagement with China," Australia Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Marise Payne said at the State Department today. She then noted that "US leadership within the Indo-Pacific remains indispensable."
A US official called the move the "biggest strategic step Australia has taken in generations."
"Our focus is to get the sensors and information architecture correct. We might have to change other capabilities out for that if necessary," said Jez Holmes, Head of the RAF’s Rapid Capabilities Office.
Raytheon executives say they will team up with Atlas Electronics to demonstrate their sonar off the coast of Scotland at an industry exhibition dubbed WISE-X.
A new concept of operation is the "source code" of the UK military's future, a top officer said this week.
The agreement includes an order from Latvia for the delivery of 200 APC variant vehicles and another 160 for Finland.
“This is not how the MoD has ever done business, but its trying to adopt some of the best practices of the commercial marketplace,” said Paul Hollingshead, head of UK and NATO effort at Anduril.
The US intends to support the British effort.
Too often political and global power ambitions outstrip funding in the British military, analyst Justin Bronk writes.