Thales Signs £700 Million Watchkeeper Contract with MoD
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Thales Signs £700 Million Watchkeeper Contract with MoD
The Ministry of Defence has signed a £700 million agreement with Thales UK to develop, manufacture, and support the Watchkeeper unmanned system. The single signature secures every major phase of work, from completing design through initial sustainment, under one integrated schedule.
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Operation Midnight Hammer, carried out from late Friday into early Sunday, hit the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear complexes. Defense officials confirm seven B-2 Spirit bombers dropped fourteen 30,000-pound GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs, while a guided-missile submarine launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at surface facilities. More than…
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The first taxi runs of Jiutian’s SS-UAV “drone mothership” at a private airfield in Sichuan on 16 June reflect how far China’s unmanned programs have moved in a single decade. According to industry sources, technicians completed telemetry checks in less than six weeks, after the…
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