Warton to get £1.7m for weapon research

Workers at BAE Systems’ Warton plant have been given funding to research a new launcher for the Typhoon. The Ministry of Defence has provided £1.7m of funding to come up with a common weapon launcher for the aircraft that could be capable of carrying multiple weapons and weapon types on one type of attachment point. The project will bring together expertise from BAE Systems as the weapons integration lead for Typhoon and the weapons manufacturers MBDA and Raytheon UK.

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