The increasingly public battle to determine the UK’s replacement for its E-3 AWACS fleet has drawn a number of international companies into the argument, as Boeing and its E-7 appears well-placed for the win.
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) is currently evaluating a replacement for the AWACS fleet of the RAF, and a single-source choice looks to be favourite.
The proposed deal would replace the UK’s six ageing E-3D Sentry with a fleet of Boeing E-7 Wedgetail jets which would, if confirmed, be worth over £2 billion ($2.6 billion).
Boeing’s E-7 is based on a standard Boeing 737-700
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Airbus was awarded the Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) contract at the end of 2010. This included an option for a third satellite, which was activated after Germany joined the programme in 2015.
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Israel will continue to develop autonomy for its weapons and platforms as it brings together defence personnel, academia and industry.
Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
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