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Northeast-based UK Docks Marine Services has won one of two new support contracts, for the Royal Navy’s versatile Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs). The eight-year contract worth around £250M will support the second batch of OPVs – HMS Forth, HMS Medway, HMS Trent, HMS Tamar and HMS Spey. The contract creates more than ...
HMS Tamar, which is part of a five-strong OPV contract with BAE Systems, worth a combined £635 million, has been formally named at a ceremony in Glasgow. The next-generation River Class ship will boost Britain’s counter-terrorism and anti-smuggling work and provide essential support to defence operations. The 90-metre vessel, which is equipped ...
US Army pilots have put an optionally-piloted vehicle (OPV) through its paces to demonstrate the autonomous technologies currently in-development at Sikorsky and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This is the first time non-Sikorsky pilots have operated the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA), a modified S-76B commercial helicopter, as an ...
Defence Procurement Minister, Guto Bebb, visited BAE Systems’ Clyde shipyards to announce the formal acceptance of the first River Class Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), FORTH, by the Ministry of Defence. Mr Bebb was also able to observe the progress on the Type 26 programme as production started on the second hull ...
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