Retiring a fleet of Army reconnaissance drones that keep crashing will cost the taxpayer almost £116m, ministers have said.

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The Ministry of Defence has ruled out gifting the British Army Watchkeeper drone to Ukraine, while confirming continued spending on the retiring system and confirming a delivery date for its ...

The British Army’s Watchkeeper UAV, originally intended to leave service in March 2025, has had its troubled service life extended to March 2027, while procurement for successor platforms remains in ...

A £30m army drone which has difficulties flying in poor weather conditions has crashed into the sea off the coast of Cyprus. The Watchkeeper first entered service in 2014 in Afghanistan. But the ...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) remains committed to the troubled Watchkeeper project despite missing its full operating capability (FOC) one milestone in November 2017. It appears that ongoing ...

October 28, 2015: The British Army WH450 Watchkeeper UAV acquired weapons (Hellfire and smaller missiles) in 2015. Britain finally got Watchkeeper, its own locally made large UAV operational in late ...

The UK government’s decision to send its Watchkeeper uncrewed air vehicles (UAVs) into early retirement marks an ignominious end for a once-ambitious effort to boost the British Army’s airborne ...

October 2, 2013: Britain is supposed to finally get its own locally made large UAVs this year. Back in 2006, the British began developing the Watchkeeper UAV and by 2010, got its Watchkeeper into the ...

The surveillance platform for the United Kingdom’s Watchkeeper program is the Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Designated WK450 by the U.K. Ministry of Defence, this medium-size UAV can stay ...

The British Army’s Thales UK/Elbit Systems-developed Watchkeeper unmanned air system (UAS) has become fully operational in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has announced. Revealing the development ...