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Access all areas: Paving the way for game-changing reconnaissance assets

Maritime December 14, 2020

Writing for Defence Online, Professor John Louth, non-executive director at Subsea Craft Ltd, highlights the need for advanced technology that has the ability to penetrate anti-access bubbles and, where necessary, burst them. For a decade, up until last year, I was employed as a research director within the Royal United Services ...

Novatech provides Navy Reserves with training simulator technology

Maritime January 13, 2020

Novatech has supplied the Royal Navy Reserves (RNR) with their RHIB training simulator technology. The RHIB training simulator technology is designed to train reservists in search and rescue and reconnaissance and was developed alongside the University of Portsmouth. The project, led by students from the RIGPR unit at the University of ...

DASA launches competition to develop autonomous systems to help troops cross water

Land January 2, 2020

DASA has launched a competition to find autonomous systems for reconnaissance and surveys to help troops crossing water into enemy territory. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a competition to develop autonomous systems to help troops safely and stealthily advance into enemy territory over water. The military need to ...

Nanotechnology and scaled down equipment in the military

Land September 30, 2019

Defence Online’s Ciara Houghton examines how advances in technology are leading to government’s exploring the military use of nanotechnology. Advancing technology means that important components needed to power products can be made smaller. This includes batteries, aerials, and data storage chips. The first every hard disk drive, invented in 1956, was ...