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The MoD has made a multimillion pound investment in the UK's maritime industry, to secure the hi-tech skills and expertise needed to continue supporting our current submarine fleet on operations, and develop the technology for future generations. |
03 September 2008 |
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The Royal Navy is to get a hi-tech system to automate and track the movement of large quantities of munitions on board its two new aircraft carriers, thanks to a multimillion pound investment by the MoD. |
02 September 2008 |
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The UK MoD has signed a major new deal to enhance training for the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) at sites in Kent, Hampshire and Oxfordshire. |
02 September 2008 |
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Soldiers in the Royal Logistic Corps are to get a boost to their driving skills thanks to a hi-tech virtual training computer package, which will test their ability to cope under fire.
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29 August 2008 |
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The MoD has announced the winner of the Grand Challenge, its major competition to produce a vehicle capable of identifying threats encountered by UK troops on current operations. |
23 August 2008 |
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A new £2 billion 15-year partnering agreement between the MOD and BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions guaranteeing the future supply of the Armed Forces' small arms and medium calibre ammunition was signed today. |
22 August 2008 |
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UAV's crucial role in operations |
05 August 2008 |
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Plans for a major new defence centre in North Wiltshire have been given the green light by Defence Minister Derek Twigg. |
05 August 2008 |
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The Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers will be equipped with a new powerful UK-designed and manufactured radar, under a £100M contract with BAE Systems Insyte announced today. |
05 August 2008 |
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For the first time, graduates at RAF College Cranwell will now be able to gain nationally recognised professional qualifications in Leadership and Management through their Inital Officer Training (IOT). |
31 July 2008 |
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Support for the Seawolf air defence missile system, which equips Royal Navy Type 22 and Type 23 frigates, is to be radically revamped under contracts worth around £300M. |
16 July 2008 |
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A new approach to purchasing the Armed Forces' missiles took a step forward today with the launch of an Assessment Phase with Team Complex Weapons - an innovative partnering of industry and MoD - announced by Baroness Taylor at the Farnborough Air Show. |
16 July 2008 |
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The MOD has celebrated a milepost for Project SLAM, its £1.1bn nationwide initiative to improve accommodation for single military personnel, as Vice Admiral Tim Laurence, the Chief Executive of Defence Estates, opened the 10,000th bedspace to be built under the project since it began in 2002. |
08 July 2008 |
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The National Audit Office today published its report into the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme, which aims to deliver a single, secure, high quality computer infrastructure across the whole of Defence while maintaining essential operational continuity. |
04 July 2008 |
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The UK MoD has signed contracts with industry to build the two future aircraft carriers. |
04 July 2008 |
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The Royal Air Force has declared its Typhoon jets multi-role capable today. The RAF Typhoons can now carry out precision Ground Attack as well as Air Defence tasks. |
02 July 2008 |
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Troops are to get new food rations on operations as a range of new menu trials get under way with soldiers. |
02 July 2008 |
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UK Armed Forces medical staff on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are being equipped with new blood supply kit which means badly injured troops can be treated more effectively. |
01 July 2008 |
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In addition to the 150 RIDGBACK vehicles on order, the MoD is purchasing more than 85 new VIKING and JACKAL protected vehicles for troops in Afghanistan and has unveiled two new vehicle types, RIDGBACK and PANTHER. |
30 June 2008 |
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The MoD has today placed contracts valued at around £250 million with companies owning shipyards in the north west, north east and south west of England for the long-term maintenance of a fleet of navy support ships. |
30 June 2008 |
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The first Airbus A400M, the RAF's future transport aircraft, rolled out today from the EADS production facility in Seville, Spain, in front of an international audience including senior RAF and MoD officials. |
27 June 2008 |
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Getting kitted out has just got easier, thanks to a new online ordering system being piloted by the MoD. |
27 June 2008 |
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RFA Fort George, a replenishment and stores ship, has come into dock at Birkenhead for a major revamp as the Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Limited (NSL) team begin work on a substantial £18M MoD repair contract. |
21 June 2008 |
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The Type 23 frigate is to get a boost to her top speed in a £9 million overhaul to be carried out by Babcock Marine at Rosyth in Scotland, Defence Minister, Baroness Taylor, announced today. |
18 June 2008 |
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The increasing sophistication of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) used by UK Armed Forces means that the current airspace above Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire is now insufficient to accommodate the full training requirement. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is therefore undertaking public consultation on proposals to extend the existing segregated airspace to include an additional area to the south of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. |
18 June 2008 |
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The British Military's latest high-tech communications satellite was successfully launched yesterday at 2305 BST from Kourou in French Guiana, South America. |
14 June 2008 |
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The successful first flight of a supersonic fighter jet, the next generation of Navy and RAF jump-jets, took place on 11 June at Lockheed Martin's Texas plant. |
12 June 2008 |
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The Royal Navy's latest air defence missile demonstrated its prowess when it scored a direct hit on a sub-sonic target during trials in the Mediterranean. |
12 June 2008 |
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The new NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) has been taking part in the NATO Exercise Bold Monarch 08, alongside Russian and US rescue systems. During the exercise submarines from Norway, The Netherlands and Poland will be bottomed in a simulated sinking and rescue systems then ‘mate’ with the submarine to rescue the survivors. |
02 June 2008 |
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UK troops are about to receive the first batch of new state of the art MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd recovery vehicles and trailers, capable of retrieving the heaviest vehicles on operations. |
02 June 2008 |
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The MoD has taken another step towards the procurement of a new fleet of naval tankers to support the Royal Navy on operations worldwide. |
02 June 2008 |
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Baroness Ann Taylor announced today that the Army has taken delivery of the 500th upgraded Bulldog infantry troop carrier - large numbers of which are deployed in Iraq where they have been praised by troops. |
25 May 2008 |
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The new UK national Military and Civilian Health Partnership Awards scheme were launched today at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, opening the nomination process for entries. |
16 May 2008 |
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) today announced the provisional selection of PIRANHA 5 offered by General Dynamics (UK) Ltd as the preferred design for the FRES (Future Rapid Effect System) Utility Vehicle. PIRANHA 5 is the first vehicle to be selected in the FRES family of vehicles. |
13 May 2008 |
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Ground commanders are to get a new system that will tell them what is happening in the air, helping to reduce friendly fire incidents and improve their ability to counter air attacks, under a £100 million contract with Lockheed Martin UK INSYS. |
06 April 2008 |
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A contract for the manufacture of aircraft lifts for the Royal Navy's two new 65,000 tonne carriers was announced today by Defence Minister Baroness Ann Taylor. |
06 April 2008 |
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The Royal Navy's nuclear-powered attack submarine, HMS Torbay, is returning to the Fleet following a year-long £8M refit at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, which has equipped her to be the most powerful boat in the fleet. |
05 April 2008 |
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A fleet of new Airbus A330-200s will replace the RAF's TriStar and VC-10 aircraft under a £13 billion PFI deal signed with AirTanker Ltd, announced Baroness Taylor, the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support. |
01 April 2008 |
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Commenting on today's report by the House of Commons Defence Select Committee into Defence Equipment 2008, the Minister for Defence Equipment & Support, Baroness Taylor, said:
'I am pleased today's report praises the speed with which we are delivering substantial amounts of vital equipment to our Armed Forces on the front line through the UOR (Urgent Operational Requirement) process. |
27 March 2008 |
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A new pilot Centre for Defence Enterprise will invite inventors, scientists and academics to join forces with private investors and develop new defence technologies to aid the Armed Forces. |
22 March 2008 |
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Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies which could soon be destined for the battlefield. |
14 March 2008 |
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The UK Ministry of Defence and the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will tonight heap praise on military and civilian nurses who work on the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
14 March 2008 |
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Contracts worth over £70million for the supply of steel and other important equipment for the two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers were announced today by Defence Minister Baroness Taylor. |
07 March 2008 |
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Defence Minister Baroness Taylor today visited the BAE Systems shipyards, in Glasgow to mark the cutting of steel for the Royal Navy's sixth Type 45 Destroyer, DUNCAN. |
01 March 2008 |
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The UK's front line forces are to be equipped with a new state-of-the-art target locator system, under a £30M contract with Thales UK. |
17 February 2008 |
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The MoD has awarded a £17M makeover contract for Type 42 destroyer, HMS York, to Portsmouth based Fleet Support Ltd (FSL).
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13 February 2008 |
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The Defence Secretary Des Browne has visited Babcock Marine in Rosyth to witness the start of a £50 million investment project to the dockyard in preparation for the two Royal Navy super carriers. |
11 February 2008 |
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Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth MP today opened a new 'state of the art' field hospital in southern Afghanistan. Based at Camp Bastion in Helmand province the new Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) will significantly increase the capabilities of the medical team who already provide excellent treatment for service personnel.
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07 February 2008 |
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The UK MoD has announced that Britain and France have launched a new multi-million pound initiative in European defence research collaboration, with the formation of an Innovation and Technology Partnership (ITP) focused on materials and components for missiles. |
24 December 2007 |
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The RAF is to get a significant boost to its heavy lift ability with the acquisition of a 6th Boeing Globemaster via a £130m contract. |
03 December 2007 |
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