Airbus Shares in Dassault Aviation
Airbus have confirmed they are now actively looking to divest themselves of their 46% shareholding in Dassault Aviation. With increasing defence cooperation with the UK and the intent of BAE to merge…
Integrating Complex Weapons and Aircraft
A few days ago I posted a quick article on the contract award to Thales and Agusta Westland for the integration onto the Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters of the Future…
Selling Weapons to Argentina
There is, and always has been, a stench of hypocrisy around the arms trade but we grudgingly accept it because we are rather good at it and it adds considerably…
Defence Vehicle Dynamics (DVD) 2014 Update
A number of readers who were there have chipped in with photos and information so to all, thanks. DVD will now be on a two year basis, timed to avoid DSEi, so…
Whatever happened to – EMCAT
ast your mind back a couple of years to the feverish discussion and fretting about which variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the MoD would select to satisfy the Joint…
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance Story
This video is only a couple of minutes long but it for me, it brings home the simple fact that building ships, maintaining industrial capacity and enhancing the security of…
An Invisibility Cloak
Maybe one day there will be an invisibility cloak, although mainly for stationary objects. Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is…
Schools Aerospace Challenge 2014 – A400M Atlas Search and Rescue
Came across this recently, after they followed the Think Defence Twitter account (just under two and a half thousand followers now) Really interesting stuff and great to see the list…