BAE Systems plc

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https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... deployment

BAE Systems is continuing development of its private-venture Kingfisher gun-launched, multi-purpose carrier round, with plans now taking shape for firing trials with a sonobuoy payload.

In development since 2018, Kingfisher was originally conceived as a low cost means to deliver an explosive payload at range from a 5-inch (127mm) gun. While concept development has been financed through BAE Systems’ own innovation fund, the company has engaged with the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the Maritime Capability (MARCAP) staff in Navy Command Headquarters to refine its thinking. Initial engineering feasibility efforts have involved BAE Systems’ Weapon Systems business in Louisville, Kentucky (manufacturer of the Mk 45 Mod 4 gun).

“We started out with a discussion of how we could replace the old Mk 11 Depth Charge with a more novel option,” said Murray Thomson, chief technologist for the Underwater Weapons business of BAE Systems Maritime Services in the UK. “Drawing on technologies and expertise from across BAE Systems, we developed the idea of an underwater explosive charge contained in a round fired from [an] Mk 45 gun.”

[ArmChairCivvy]

Nominally BAE is a UK company, though there is some sort of Chinese wall between their US defence biz and the rest. They are in the TopTen for 2020, in the US DoD suppliers' list:

PRIME CONTRACTOR $ millions % of total
Lockheed Martin Corp $74,913 17.77%
Raytheon Technologies Corp $26,489 6.28%
General Dynamics Corp $21,880 5.19%
The Boeing Company $21,708 5.15%
Northrop Grumman Corp $12,068 2.86%
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc $7,710 1.83%
Humana Inc $6,922 1.64%
BAE Systems plc $6,499 1.54%
L3Harris Technologies Inc $6,272 1.49%
General Electric Company $4,378 1.04%

[Ron5]

Humana Inc does medical insurance. I have mine with them too.

[ArmChairCivvy]

Thx. Does the Pentagon 'block buy' it for employees (as part of contract)?
- I seem to remember that VA (Veterans' Administration) has its own budget; not sure

[SKB]

BAE Systems at Farnborough Airshow 2022

(BAE Systems) 20th July 2022

It’s Farnborough International Airshow week, and from Tempest and Eurofighter Typhoon, to head-up display and space technology, we’re showcasing some of our very best products, people and services.

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Strix VTOL UCAV with 2 x Razer 50kg GPS gliding munition loaded (a halfsized SDB1 concept), with Sea Venom and Enforcer alongside.









https://www.baesystems.com/en-aus/strix

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Unveiled alongside Strix, the Razer munition...

RAZER is an low-cost air-launched precision guided munition that is designed to transform a 40-50kg standard non guided munition into a precision air launched weapon at low cost.

The RAZER system consists of a wing/body kit and tail unit equipped with a powered GPS/INS guidance control and navigation system, aimed at operations from uncrewed combat air vehicles (UCAV) and rotary wing aircraft.

https://www.baesystems.com/en-aus/artic ... d-munition

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Strix Brochure

https://dtrsupplements.partica.online/d ... lipbook/1/

[jonas]

Major enhancement at Barrow :-

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/bae-sys ... -facility/

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