QinetiQ

LONDON, (BM) - QinetiQ collaborates with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to investigate how drone technology can strengthen their Search and Rescue missions, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Funded by QinetiQ’s Internal Research and Development, the search and rescue development programme is exploring how small unmanned air systems, with…

FARNBOROUGH (BGM) - QinetiQ has unveiled the ‘Rattler’ supersonic target that can be attached to the Banshee aerial target and launched during flight, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting UKDJ. The firm say that Rattler was built to enable ships and aircraft to practice tracking missiles. The ground-launch capability of Rattler was launched…

PANAGYURISHTE, Bulgaria (BulgarianMilitary.com) - As we reported yesterday, Washington will take actions to prevent a presumable threat by Iran in the Middle East, sending additional military forces to the region. According to Breaking Defense, sources told that at least one of the B-52s deployed to the region passed through our airspace,…

13 October 2017 – QinetiQ has flown Mirach and Firejet aerial targets together for the first time during a live exercise from MOD Hebrides on the Western Isles of Scotland. QinetiQ is supporting eight NATO countries as they take part in international maritime exercise, Formidable Shield. In a first for QinetiQ, two Firejets and two Mirach…

The MAPLE project, spearheaded by QinetiQ in partnership with BAE Systems, SeeByte and Thales, seeks to demonstrate and de-risk the integration of multiple unmanned systems into the combat system of a Royal Navy warship. In MAPLE phase three, QinetiQ, with its partners, led the development and build of a technology demonstrator called…