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Babcock partners with Rafael for UK land ground-based air defence programme​


22nd July 2022 - 16:35 GMT | by
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Babcock and Rafael have joined forces to provide C2 solutions for a GBAD programme in the UK.

Under an MoU signed during the Farnborough International Airshow on 18-22 July, Babcock and Rafael will deliver a capability for the UK MoD's
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The two companies' collaboration is built around the B4MCI capability employed on the
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air defence system, which is based on Rafael's MiCAD C4I system.

Babcock Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance director Simon Holford referred to the existing collaboration with Rafael, adding that it made sense to develop the relationship further to offer MiCAD into the Land GBAD programme.

Babcock said a seamless B4MCI system across the UK GBAD capability was critical to maximising the effectiveness of sensors and effectors through fast decision-making.

The company added that MiCAD could 'readily provide' this function through a UK-centred delivery model.

Rafael Air Defence Division head Pini Yungman said the open architecture of MiCAD allowed for integrating systems and components according to customer requirements


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UK procures M70 Zastava Rifles to train Ukraine soldiers in Britain.


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Prime Minister Liz Truss pledged in the September Defense Hearing a 3 percent increase to UK military spending, Chair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood has commented that the UK should "double the size of the navy". He says the UK military needs "greater force presence" to be able to patrol the South China Seas on a "regular basis". He also touched on the reduction of F-35's, he would like to see the numbers reversed.

Tobia's expressed his dissatisfaction with AJAX and BOXER APC procurement in his own words about boxer is that "it's not tracked and hasn't got a big gun on the top and that changes how you do land warfare". He said the UK need to reconsider how they fight tank warfare with the threat of UAV's increasing on the modern day battle field.

Liz Truss merged the Armed Forces and Veteran Minister Roles. Tobias commented expressing "I don't understand why the two have been merged other than the fact we're loosing a minister of defense in a whole or that they're creating another role somewhere else".

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