The UK Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Spearhead program has rapidly developed three autonomous testbed platforms, CETUS, PROTEUS, and SCYLLA, to enhance the service’s ASW capabilities. A collaboration between the Royal Navy, defence industry, and research organisations the ASW Spearhead…
Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) has signed the Copperhead Project Arrangement (PA) with the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). This will bring together cutting-edge technologies from both countries to develop affordable, next-generation guided weapons systems,…
The UK has released the results of its long-awaited Strategic Defence Review which was begun last year. The UK Government has committed itself to spending 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2027, rising to 3% ‘in the next parliament’. In…
British soldiers have successfully tracked, targeted and defeated swarms of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) in the latest trial of a new directed energy weapon developed in the UK. The RapidDestroyer was developed by a Thales UK-led consortium and uses Radio…
The UK Ministry of Defence’s Hypersonic Weapons Program has successfully completed a major propulsion system test program at NASA’s Langley Research Center in the USA. The propulsion system under development is set to power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile concept,…
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) have will jointly develop next-generation sub-systems for low-cost weapons systems, bringing together cutting-edge technologies from both nations, according to a UK Ministry of Defence…
For the first time scientists and engineers have successfully fired Raytheon's High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) from a British Army combat vehicle. The lightweight, portable high-energy laser system is the first laser weapon integrated on a land vehicle to be…
A program set up by the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and supported by scientists from Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) aims to address the challenge of secure underwater communications. In the underwater domain radio…
The UK Ministry of Defence’s Strategic Command unveiled the Defence Experimentation and Wargaming Hub at Southwick Park, near Portsmouth. The facility, developed in partnership with the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl), will be the centre for experimentation and wargaming in…
The UK Ministry of Defence (UKMoD) has successfully trialled a military laser which can engage targets with extreme accuracy while reducing reliance on high-cost direct and indirect-fire ammunition. During a trial at the MOD’s Hebrides Range in Scotland, the DragonFire Laser…