The UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is set to lose a substantial slice of its airborne ISR capability with the loss of its Nimrod MRA4 programme and potential withdrawal of the Sentinel Airborne Stand-Off Reconnaissance (ASTOR) system.
According to the UK’s Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), published on 19 October, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) would ‘not bring into service the Nimrod MRA4 maritime patrol aircraft programme’, in a contract with BAE Systems worth over £3 billion.
‘We will depend on other maritime assets to contribute to the tasks previously planned for them,’ the report continued. Originally designed for
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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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