Babcock has successfully delivered the first package of work within Project TAMPA for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD). Project TAMPA is the MOD’s accelerator programme focused on the use of additive manufacturing to increase material availability across defence assets, to overcome obsolescence of parts, reducing cost and improving performance and ...
British Army personnel have demonstrated a first live firing of a next-generation howitzer amidst freezing conditions in one of the largest series of NATO artillery exercises ever conducted in Europe. As temperatures plummeted to -3 degrees celsius just outside the Arctic Circle, 350 Army personnel joined soldiers from 28 countries – ...
Babcock has demonstrated its new immersive training product at the annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida. The Babcock Immersive Training Experience (BITE) is a state-of-the-art product which exposes trainees to operationally accurate scenarios, replicating the intensity of multi-domain operations by delivering physical, sensory, and cognitive challenges ...
British soldiers are to receive high-tech rifle sights, helping them to better track and shoot the enemy in dark conditions, under a new contract announced by the MOD. The new contract will supply up to 10,000 high performance rifle sights and is a jobs boost for North Wales, sustaining 650 jobs ...