The UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and the Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles have visited Rolls-Royces’s nuclear reactor manufacturing site in Derby, to meet the first… Continue reading "AUKUS: Grant Shapps and Richard Marles Visit Nuclear Reactor Factory"
As part of the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, Rolls-Royce confirmed in March 2023 that it would provide all of its nuclear reactor plants… Continue reading "Rolls-Royce Submarines to Expand Raynesway Site to Accommodate AUKUS Submarine Reactor Demands"
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday that it would be jointly developing a future fighter aircraft engine demonstrator with Japan. The demonstrator will inform the development of… Continue reading "UK And Japan To Commence Joint Development Of Future Fighter Jet Engine Demonstrator In 2022"
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Rolls-Royce a contract to re-engine the B-52 bomber. The contract, worth $2.6 billion, when fully exercised will deliver 608 engines for the Air Force’s… Continue reading "U.S Air Force picks Rolls Royce’s F130 for the B-52’s Commercial Engine Replacement Program"
Rolls-Royce has just opened the largest aviation powerplant testbed facility of its kind in the world – Testbed 80. Testbed 80 began construction back in 2018 with a project cost… Continue reading "Rolls-Royce Opens Testbed 80 – A New £90m Jet Engine Test Facility"
In a statement to the press on 7 December 2018, Philippine Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana said that the T-129 ATAK Attack and Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter developed by the Turkish Aviation… Continue reading "The US Approves The Sale of Attack Helicopters from Turkey to the Philippines"
The Boeing B-52 strategic bomber is one of the longest-serving airplanes within the United States Air Force. Introduced in 1955, it took part in the Vietnam War and dropped thousands… Continue reading "Upgrade To Keep B-52 In Service for Another Decade"
British engineering giant Rolls-Royce established a partnership with Reaction Engines, a fellow British aerospace space company that specializes in hypersonic-power. On top of plans for future joint projects, Rolls-Royce is solidifying this… Continue reading "Rolls-Royce Invests in Hypersonic Specialized Aerospace Manufacturer"
The National Audit Office (NAO) has recently published a critical report of the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) poor performance relating to their management of spending on infrastructure refurbishment projects relating… Continue reading "UK Ministry of Defence Overspending on Nuclear Infrastructure Projects"