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The London Underground 2024 Stock, known as the New Tube for London (NTfL) during development, is a London Underground train being built by Siemens Mobility at its facilities in Goole, United Kingdom and Vienna, Austria. It is part of the Siemens Inspiro family of metro and rapid-transport trains. An initial batch of 94 nine-car trains has been ...
Challenger 3 (CR3) is a British fourth-generation main battle tank in development for the British Army. It will be produced by the conversion of existing Challenger 2 tanks by the British/German Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land joint venture. Improvements to Challenger 2 began in 2005 as the Capability And Sustainment Programme (CSP) to keep the ...
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a major investment being made in the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield in the north of England. It is the 76 miles (122 km) northern route over the Pennines, [1] most of which is also known as the Huddersfield line. As of 2024, the line is heavily used but is slow and lacks ...
The UK will increase its operational fleet to 85 by 2030, as well as having more vehicles in reserve. [119] 9 of the UK's M270s will be upgraded to the M270A2 variant through a $32 million programme. [120] Ukraine: Ukrainian Army (16) The United Kingdom, Norway, France, [121] Germany and Italy [122] provided more than ten systems to Ukraine in ...
Proposed. 1997. The Thameslink Programme, originally Thameslink 2000, was a £6 billion project in south-east England to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the south of London. The development facilitated new cross-London journeys, which means ...
Great Western Main Line upgrade. In the 2010s Network Rail modernised the Great Western Main Line, the South Wales Main Line, and other associated lines. The modernisation plans were announced at separate times but their implementation overlapped in the 2010s. The work included electrification, resignalling, new rolling stock and station upgrades.
Expected to be completed in 2024 2025 at a cost of £282 million. [26] Berryden corridor, a road-widening project in Aberdeen [27] Grade separation of the Sheriffhall roundabout on the Edinburgh City Bypass, expected to cost £120 million [28] A465 Dowlais Top to Hirwaun (Section 5 and 6) A1231 Dualling, Sunderland.
In 2009, an upgrade programme began, leading to further sophisticated advances in Spearfish's homing, warheads, tactical and fuelling systems, as well as an upgraded guidance link. This will last until 2019. [7] [8] On 15 December 2014, the Ministry of Defence awarded BAE Systems a £270 million contract to upgrade the Spearfish torpedo.