BAE Systems

The first of the Royal Navy's Type 26 City Class frigates, HMS Glasgow, has begun a very slow launch, which will see it shifted onto a special barge before being slowly lowered into the water in an operation that will take days.

The sixth generation of supersonic stealth fighter planes is on its way. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that the British-led Future Combat Air System initiative's Tempest fighter program will fly a combat air demonstrator by 2027.

BAE Systems has taken the wraps off its lightweight LiteWave Head-Up Display (HUD) system that is designed to be easy to install in the cockpits of a wide variety of military and civilian aircraft and be more comfortable to use.

In a clear demonstration of where military drone technology is headed, BAE Systems has carried out its most realistic combat exercise to date using crewed and autonomous aircraft working together as teams.

In 1952, Britain won the race to put the world's first jet airliner into service, but it turned out to be a hollow victory. Disasters, delays, and an unlikely American rival upended British ambitions and reshaped the early years of the Jet Age.

BAE Systems has brought down drones using standard rockets equipped with its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System and an advanced proximity fuse – an approach the company says costs much less than conventional drone countermeasures.

Given that small-ish drones are already being used to deliver small packages, wouldn't it stand to reason that giant drones could deliver large loads? That's just what BAE Systems is looking into, with its proposed T-650 Heavy Lift Electric UAS.

BAE Systems has developed the world's smallest, lightest, and most power-efficient military M-Code GPS receiver. About the size of a postage stamp, the MicroGRAMTM-M can be installed in handheld devices and is resistant to jamming and spoofing.

BAE Systems has revealed its latest APKWS laser guidance kit that converts dumb rockets into precision munitions. The modifications increase the effective range by 30 percent and introduce the ability to strike at a greater angle of attack.

Britain's Tempest sixth-generation fighter jet is a step closer to reality after the UK Ministry of Defence awarded BAE Systems a contract for £250 million to begin the program's concept and assessment phase.

The US Air Force has flight tested the Skyborg combat drone's Autonomy Core System for the first time. The "brain" of the autonomous Skyborg was installed in a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical uncrewed vehicle, and carried out a two-hour-and-10-minute flight.

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has won an £800-million (US$1.1-billion) contract from the Ministry of Defence to upgrade 148 of the British Army's Cold War era Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks to Challenger 3 specifications by 2027.