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Automated Drones Flying Over the Irish Sea, With Men Onboard Just in Case
A consortium led by BAE Systems is trialling a new form of pilotless plane over the Irish Sea right now, which does away with the human element altogether, in favour of a drone that follows a pre-set...
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The British Olympic Team Is Using BAE-Tested Laser Pistols
BAE Systems, our defence contractor responsible for all sorts of awesome weaponry and the odd drone, is helping the British modern pentathletes using military-based equipment to hone their fancy new...
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How a Fighter Jet Pilot’s Helmet Gets Made and Tested
Ever wondered how a fighter jet pilot’s helmet works, displaying all those fancy graphics over his view? Or how it’s tested to destruction? The BBC went behind the scenes at BAE systems to find out...
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Men Look Utterly Puny Next to Just 1/6 of Our Colossal New Aircraft Carrier
What you’re looking at here is just one of six sections of our brand new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, which is currently under construction by BAE Systems. It’s being moved to Rosyth to be...
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An Epic Simulator is How You Get Ready to Launch a Supercarrier
When the Queen Elizabeth carriers come into service next decade, they’re going to be the biggest, most expensive things the Royal Navy’s ever owned. Given that they’ve got a track record of crashing...
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Take a Stroll Through a Military Fighter-Systems Factory
We recently had the chance to visit BAE Systems’ facility at Rochester, where all the electronic bits and bobs for basically every British (and some American) combat aircraft get made. Although we’ve...
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What’s it Actually Like to Be a Test Pilot?
It’s one of those jobs that should get the girls swooning and the guys hopelessly over-compensating; but is being a test pilot the glamourous danger-fest it’s cracked up to be? We sat down with BAE...
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Hands-On With the Military’s Answer to Google Glass
Google Glass might be new on the scene, but wearable displays aren’t unseen technology. Head-mounted displays have been projecting information into fighter pilot’s eyeballs for years now, and we...
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The Army’s Latest Tank Is 32 Tonnes of Remote-Control Badassery
The Royal Engineers, a.k.a. the people who never got over their 4-year-old fascination with JCBs, have just got a new toy to play with. Named Terrier, it’s a heavily armed tank/bulldozer combo that can...
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Totally Psycho 1960s Military Prototypes That Should Never Have Left the...
If the music‘s anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the ’60s — and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-insane ideas that were...
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The US Navy’s Advanced Guns System Fires Rocket-Powered Artillery Shells
The 54-cal, 5-inch naval artillery shells fired by Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are brutally efficient at destroying surface ships, aircraft, and land targets. But they’re little more than pea...
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This Is How Massive Our New Aircraft Carrier Really Is
Our brand new aircraft carrier is coming along nicely, with the HMS Queen Elizabeth due for launch in 2014. Now that the two halves have been put together for the first time we get a real feeling for...
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This Helmet Gives Eurofighters X-Ray Vision
In conventional combat aircraft, the target generally needs to be in both the pilot’s field of vision and within the sights of the plane itself. That is, the plane needed to be pointed in the general...
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British Armed Forces Network all Their Simulators Together for Greatest LAN...
As every proper gamer knows, single-player gaming is nothing compared to the fun of pumping your buddy full of lead. The Armed Forces, no strangers to teamwork, seem to agree, so have networked ship...
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Next-Gen Typhoon Tranche 3 Combat Jet Makes First Test Flights
The first-generation Typhoon fighter jets are considered the most advanced multi-role/swing role combat aircraft in operation, and the next-gen Typhoon Tranche 3 models are even more impressive. Taking...
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