The group, led by Latvia and Britain, will coordinate training, testing and procurement of the miniature drone type, which can carry explosives on target.
The Brexit squabble has snared Britain’s fast-growing space industry, which has been excluded by the EU from bidding for further Galileo-related contracts.
Europe’s largest defense contractor is throwing its weight behind a company called Prismatic in the development of the firm's solar electric-powered drone.
Saab has taken the wraps off a new surveillance aircraft destined to equip the United Arab Emirates with a powerful airborne early warning and control capability.
The sensors employed on Carbonite-2 enable the British military to film moving objects such as vehicles, aircraft and ships in ultrahigh definition and color video.
Prospects for the local defense and security sectors overall are likely to be influenced by a national security capability review due to be completed by the Cabinet Office in the next few weeks.
Britain’s top military officer has warned that a modernized Russian Navy poses a threat to the undersea fiber-optic cable networks. However, this is not entirely a one-sided affair.