Manufacturer anxious to seal "strip and survey" package to retain skills as development phase begins to tail off BAE Systems and the UK Ministry of Defence are negotiating to begin preparatory work on ...

BAE Systems' Nimrod MRA4 maritime reconnaissance and attack aircraft has successfully completed a series of hot-weather trials during a 10-day deployment to Sicily, the company said Aug. 11. The tests ...

BAE Systems is highlighting the availability of the Nimrod MRA4 as key in its bid for the forthcoming US Navy Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) programme. The aircraft will enter UK Royal Air ...

Inadvertently nearly dropping a roughly 100,000-lb. prototype onto a hangar floor might seem an odd moment to identify as a positive turning point--but the impact was only a delay, not a written-off ...

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - BAE Systems will cut 1,116 jobs in the UK as work for Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) on ageing military hardware such as Nimrod surveillance and reconnaissance jets dries ...