Today's defence news includes the Royal Navy’s future submarine concepts and the death of ex-RAF cadet.
Royal Navy’s future submarine designs
The News (Portsmouth) and The Herald (Plymouth) report on project Nautilus 100, in which young engineers visualised future submarines modelled on pods, eels, manta rays and whales among other marine life. The articles note CGI imagery of the future submarine concepts and include comments from Commander Peter Pipkin, the Royal Navy’s Fleet Robotics officer, stating that “today’s Royal Navy is one of the most technologically advanced forces in the world”.
Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin said:
These remarkable designs display the great promise of our young engineers and scientists and the great ambition of the Royal Navy. This kind of innovation is at the heart of defence and the UK’s world-leading capability. That’s why we are using our rising budget to invest in high-tech capability to keep our Armed Forces at the cutting-edge, and our £800 million Innovation Fund aims to take advantage of exactly these kinds of futuristic ideas.
You can read more about the futuristic designs here.
Death of former RAF cadet
The Times (p8), The Sun (p14), Mailonline, BBC News and the Evening Standard all cover the story of the tragic shooting of Abdul Mayanja, 19.
A spokesperson for the RAF Air Cadets said:
Cadet Abdul Mayanja left 338 (West Ham) Squadron Air Training Corps in 2013. He had been with us for 18 months and was well respected. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this difficult time.
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