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2000 United Kingdom Special Weapons News

  • Major Milestones Achieved on United Kingdom and French AWACS Fleets Boeing 18 Dec 2000 -- The Boeing Company has completed major upgrades on the United Kingdom and French Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleets. They were finished within budget and ahead of schedule.
  • Lockheed Martin Wins UK MoD Electronic Warfare Contract Lockheed Martin 18 Aug 2000 -- Lockheed Martin has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) following an extensive competitive source selection process to undertake an Assessment Phase contract for the Soothsayer Electronic Warfare (EW) system for the British Army and Royal Marines. Soothsayer is a next-generation EW system that will provide integrated Electronic Support Measures and electronic countermeasures capability for UK land forces with potential extension to airborne platforms.
  • Royal Navy Conducts Successful Test of a Lockheed Martin- Built Trident II D5 Missile Lockheed Martin 25 Jul 2000 -- A Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, CA, was successfully flight tested Thursday at the U.S. Eastern Test Range, Cape Canaveral, FL.
  • Boeing Begins Assembly On United Kingdom C-17 Boeing 28 Jun 2000 -- During a ceremony here, Boeing began assembly of the first C-17 Globemaster III for lease to the U.K. Royal Air Force. Attending the ceremony on the C-17 production line were officials from the U.K. Ministry of Defence, the U.S. Air Force, the City of Long Beach and Boeing.
  • Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence -- 28 June 2000 -- In the matter of the National Missile Defence (NMD), which the US is now discussing, we shall have to take key decisions on our own in respect of the US requests.
  • Boeing Delivers First C-17 to United Kingdom Royal Air Force Boeing 17 May 2000 -- The Boeing Company delivered the first of four C-17 Globemaster III military cargo aircraft to the United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) during ceremonies at the company's assembly facility here.
  • U.K. Decisions on C-17, Meteor Build Upon Britain-Boeing Ties Boeing 16 May 2000 -- The United Kingdom government's selection of the Boeing C-17 for its strategic airlift requirement and the Meteor air-to-air missile system for its fleet of Eurofighters builds upon the strong relationship between Britain and Boeing, a Boeing executive said.
  • Boeing Member of Winning United Kingdom Missile Team Boeing 16 May 2000 --'s decision by the United Kingdom to equip Royal Air Force Eurofighters with the Meteor beyond-visual range air-to-air missile means that Boeing will be a member of the leading international team in air-to-air missile systems.
  • United Kingdom Selects Boeing C-17 Globemaster III Boeing 16 May 2000 -- The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced its intention to lease four Boeing C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft for the Royal Air Force beginning in 2001.
  • REDUNDANT NUCLEAR SUBMARINES TO BE SAFELY STORED ON LAND Ministry of Defence 086/00 May 11, 2000 New proposals for the safe storage on land of the Royal Navy's decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines were announced today by Defence Minister Dr Lewis Moonie.
  • Lockheed Martin NE&SS-Syracuse Wins Contract For Further Upgrades To United Kingdom Radars Lockheed Martin 02 May 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Syracuse (NE&SS-Syracuse) announced that it has been awarded a contract in excess of $2.5 million from the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) for continued upgrades to its FPS-117 radars.
  • FURTHER STEPS IN NUCLEAR OPENNESS 071/00 14 April 2000 The Ministry of Defence has taken another step in nuclear openness today with the publication of two reports. The first report is on an historical review of UK plutonium production and the second is on arms control verification..
  • Historical accounting and plutonium A SUMMARY REPORT BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ON THE ROLE OF HISTORICAL ACCOUNTING FOR FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT PROCESS, AND ON PLUTONIUM FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM'S DEFENCE NUCLEAR PROGRAMME.
  • Plutonium and Aldermaston - an historical account .
  • Confidence, Security and Verification: The challenge of global nuclear weapons arms control 13 April 2000 - AWE/TR/2000/001 prepared for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence - This paper presents initial AWE work directed at providing Her Majesty's Government with a national capability to contribute to the verification challenge resulting from any future global nuclear weapons arms control negotiations..
  • Lockheed Martin Awarded Support Contract for United Kingdom's Fleet Ballistic Missile Program Lockheed Martin 29 Mar 2000 -- Lockheed Martin Space Systems Strategic Missile Programs (SMP), Sunnyvale CA, was recently awarded a 12-month, $12,815,696 contract from U.S. Navy to provide management and technical support to the United Kingdom's Trident Fleet Ballistic Missile program.
  • Nuclear verification A SUMMARY REPORT BY THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ON THE STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT ALDERMASTON INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM'S CAPABILITIES TO VERIFY THE REDUCTION AND ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
  • ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT REVIEW COMPLETE Ministry of Defence 052/00 29 March, 2000 The Ministry of Defence today confirmed that the AWE ML consortium will take over management of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on 1 April 2000.
  • ORBITAL WINS $13 MILLION IN CONTRACTS TO PROVIDE AIR MONITORS FOR THE BRITISH AND U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE FLEETS Orbital Sciences Corp. 14 Mar 2000 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced it has been awarded $13 million in contracts primarily to provide atmosphere monitoring equipment for the British Navy's fleet of submarines. Orbital also received an order from the U.S. Navy for several of the air monitoring systems.



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