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RFA Lyme Bay is being prepared to act as a minehunting mothership, giving the Royal Navy a crewed platform able to deploy, recover, and command autonomous mine-countermeasure systems as it pushes further into hybrid maritime operations.
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HMS Active has completed float-off at Rosyth, pushing the Type 31 programme into another visible production milestone as Babcock moves the second Inspiration-class frigate from structural assembly into the next stage of fit-out and systems integration.
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Lockheed Martin has joined the Manufacturing Technology Centre as a Tier 1 member, pairing that move with a UK technology roadmap effort aimed at accelerating defence innovation into production and broadening the role of British suppliers in future capability delivery.
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Shield AI’s latest raise deepens defence autonomy’s industrial stack further. The financing and planned Aechelon acquisition strengthen the software, simulation, and validation layer behind autonomous military aviation.
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VAMPIRE production is moving into a more scalable factory phase. L3Harris has opened a Huntsville line built for flexible assembly, testing, and installation as counter-drone demand grows.
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Honeywell is expanding component capacity for America’s munitions production base. The investment targets navigation systems, missile actuators, and electronic warfare hardware used across defence programmes.
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Javelin output growth is forcing suppliers to expand industrial capacity. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are pushing tooling, testing, and second-source work deeper into the missile supply chain.
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T2S has secured a major defence cyber infrastructure contract. The award underlines how zero trust, AI security tooling, and C5ISR hardening are now being bought as long-cycle capability programmes.
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MARTE has moved into Europe’s next tank architecture phase. The programme now turns collaborative ambition into subsystem decisions, interface rules, and the industrial logic needed for a buildable land platform.
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Osnabrück could yet become an air-defence production node. Talks with Rafael point to support equipment manufacturing that sits between automotive restructuring and Europe’s wider missile-defence expansion.