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Can Europeans and UK Work Together on Defence Capabilities?

Can Europeans and UK Work Together on Defence Capabilities?

This paper is the second of a three paper CER-KAS project, ‘Bridging the Channel’. The aim is to assess how EU states and the UK can continue to work together in foreign and security policy after Brexit. The first paper focused on diplomatic co-operation, this paper deals with defence industrial co-…
GD Wins $269M for Virginia-class Attack Submarines

GD Wins $269M for Virginia-class Attack Submarines

General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is awarded a $269,485,986 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-20-C-2120) for lead yard support and development studies and design efforts related to Virginia-class submarines.

Work will be performed in…

US Navy Upgrades, Expands ASW Training Ranges

US Navy Upgrades, Expands ASW Training Ranges

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The Navy’s Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office (PMA-205) is advancing increments II and III of the Undersea Warfare Training Ranges (USWTR), upgrading and expanding the capability of the training ranges.

In increment I, the USWTR team managed the inst…

Royal Navy Commando Wildcats in Three-Week Scottish Workout

Royal Navy Commando Wildcats in Three-Week Scottish Workout

The wings of the Royal Marines unleashed hellfire and fury in the wilds of Scotland amid their first taste of operating from the Navy’s new carrier.

Three Commando Wildcats of 847 Naval Air Squadron – based at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset – decamped to Scotland for training at sea and ashore to hon…

USAF Clears KC-46 Tanker to Refuel F-15, F-16 Fighters

USAF Clears KC-46 Tanker to Refuel F-15, F-16 Fighters

SCOTT AFB, Ill. — Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Command, approved a third Interim Capability Release (ICR) mission set for the KC-46A Pegasus on Oct. 13, 2021.

This ICR decision allows the KC-46 to refuel all variants of the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon during U.S. Trans…


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