Andrew Chuter

Andrew Chuter is the United Kingdom correspondent for Defense News.


  • Spending And Review Top Tory Defense Priorities
    Spending And Review Top Tory Defense Priorities

    Britain faces a defense and security review dominated by budget issues instead of strategy, according to analysts here just hours after the Conservative Party secured power for a second term in the May 7 general election.

  • Norway Picks Supacat High-Mobility Vehicle
    Norway Picks Supacat High-Mobility Vehicle

    Norway has ordered HMT Extenda vehicles from British maker Supacat under a deal valued at £23 million (US $34.8 million), including support, to bolster the mobility of its land forces.

  • Danes Pick Piranha 5, Suspend Artillery Duel
    Danes Pick Piranha 5, Suspend Artillery Duel

    Denmark announced its new armored personnel carrier and suspended a competition for self-propelled howitzers.

  • UK C-130J Ops Increase After Afghan Pullout
    UK C-130J Ops Increase After Afghan Pullout

    The expectation was that the Royal Air Force’s Hercules C-130J fleet would get a bit of a breather after the drawdown from a long Afghanistan campaign was completed at the end of last year.

  • BAE Completes S. African Unit Sale to Denel
    BAE Completes S. African Unit Sale to Denel

    BAE Systems has completed the sale of its 75 percent holding in its South African land systems business to Denel.

  • Report: Anti-Corruption Programs Lacking
    Report: Anti-Corruption Programs Lacking

    Two thirds of defense companies are not doing enough to publicly promote their anti-corruption policies, according to a survey by independent watchdog Transparency International.

  • BAE Looks To Exit Part of US IT Business
    BAE Looks To Exit Part of US IT Business

    BAE Systems has engaged external advisers to look at selling off part of its US-based information technology business, Europe’s biggest defense contractor said April 25.

  • RAF Rebuilds Weapon Stocks for IS Strikes
    RAF Rebuilds Weapon Stocks for IS Strikes

    Continuing Royal Air Force precision strikes against Islamic State (IS)targets in Iraq has prompted Britain’s Ministry of Defence to open negotiations with Raytheon UK to replenish stocks of the company’s Paveway IV weapon

  • BAE Will Sit Out Paris Air Show
    BAE Will Sit Out Paris Air Show

    BAE Systems is joining Northrop Grumman as another major defense company planning to skip the Paris Air Show in June.

  • GCHQ Steadily Sparks UK Cyber Industry Rush
    GCHQ Steadily Sparks UK Cyber Industry Rush

    The cyber industry hub supporting Britain’s GCHQ is continuing to grow with Northrop Grumman becoming the latest company to set up development and innovation facilities close by the headquarters of the intelligence center

  • Spending And Review Top Tory Defense Priorities
    Spending And Review Top Tory Defense Priorities

    Britain faces a defense and security review dominated by budget issues instead of strategy, according to analysts here just hours after the Conservative Party secured power for a second term in the May 7 general election.

  • Norway Picks Supacat High-Mobility Vehicle
    Norway Picks Supacat High-Mobility Vehicle

    Norway has ordered HMT Extenda vehicles from British maker Supacat under a deal valued at £23 million (US $34.8 million), including support, to bolster the mobility of its land forces.

  • Danes Pick Piranha 5, Suspend Artillery Duel
    Danes Pick Piranha 5, Suspend Artillery Duel

    Denmark announced its new armored personnel carrier and suspended a competition for self-propelled howitzers.

  • UK C-130J Ops Increase After Afghan Pullout
    UK C-130J Ops Increase After Afghan Pullout

    The expectation was that the Royal Air Force’s Hercules C-130J fleet would get a bit of a breather after the drawdown from a long Afghanistan campaign was completed at the end of last year.

  • BAE Completes S. African Unit Sale to Denel
    BAE Completes S. African Unit Sale to Denel

    BAE Systems has completed the sale of its 75 percent holding in its South African land systems business to Denel.

  • Report: Anti-Corruption Programs Lacking
    Report: Anti-Corruption Programs Lacking

    Two thirds of defense companies are not doing enough to publicly promote their anti-corruption policies, according to a survey by independent watchdog Transparency International.

  • BAE Looks To Exit Part of US IT Business
    BAE Looks To Exit Part of US IT Business

    BAE Systems has engaged external advisers to look at selling off part of its US-based information technology business, Europe’s biggest defense contractor said April 25.

  • RAF Rebuilds Weapon Stocks for IS Strikes
    RAF Rebuilds Weapon Stocks for IS Strikes

    Continuing Royal Air Force precision strikes against Islamic State (IS)targets in Iraq has prompted Britain’s Ministry of Defence to open negotiations with Raytheon UK to replenish stocks of the company’s Paveway IV weapon

  • BAE Will Sit Out Paris Air Show
    BAE Will Sit Out Paris Air Show

    BAE Systems is joining Northrop Grumman as another major defense company planning to skip the Paris Air Show in June.

  • GCHQ Steadily Sparks UK Cyber Industry Rush
    GCHQ Steadily Sparks UK Cyber Industry Rush

    The cyber industry hub supporting Britain’s GCHQ is continuing to grow with Northrop Grumman becoming the latest company to set up development and innovation facilities close by the headquarters of the intelligence center

  • Spending And Review Top Tory Defense Priorities
    Spending And Review Top Tory Defense Priorities

    Britain faces a defense and security review dominated by budget issues instead of strategy, according to analysts here just hours after the Conservative Party secured power for a second term in the May 7 general election.

  • Norway Picks Supacat High-Mobility Vehicle
    Norway Picks Supacat High-Mobility Vehicle

    Norway has ordered HMT Extenda vehicles from British maker Supacat under a deal valued at £23 million (US $34.8 million), including support, to bolster the mobility of its land forces.

  • Danes Pick Piranha 5, Suspend Artillery Duel
    Danes Pick Piranha 5, Suspend Artillery Duel

    Denmark announced its new armored personnel carrier and suspended a competition for self-propelled howitzers.

  • UK C-130J Ops Increase After Afghan Pullout
    UK C-130J Ops Increase After Afghan Pullout

    The expectation was that the Royal Air Force’s Hercules C-130J fleet would get a bit of a breather after the drawdown from a long Afghanistan campaign was completed at the end of last year.

  • BAE Completes S. African Unit Sale to Denel
    BAE Completes S. African Unit Sale to Denel

    BAE Systems has completed the sale of its 75 percent holding in its South African land systems business to Denel.

  • Report: Anti-Corruption Programs Lacking
    Report: Anti-Corruption Programs Lacking

    Two thirds of defense companies are not doing enough to publicly promote their anti-corruption policies, according to a survey by independent watchdog Transparency International.

  • BAE Looks To Exit Part of US IT Business
    BAE Looks To Exit Part of US IT Business

    BAE Systems has engaged external advisers to look at selling off part of its US-based information technology business, Europe’s biggest defense contractor said April 25.

  • RAF Rebuilds Weapon Stocks for IS Strikes
    RAF Rebuilds Weapon Stocks for IS Strikes

    Continuing Royal Air Force precision strikes against Islamic State (IS)targets in Iraq has prompted Britain’s Ministry of Defence to open negotiations with Raytheon UK to replenish stocks of the company’s Paveway IV weapon

  • BAE Will Sit Out Paris Air Show
    BAE Will Sit Out Paris Air Show

    BAE Systems is joining Northrop Grumman as another major defense company planning to skip the Paris Air Show in June.

  • GCHQ Steadily Sparks UK Cyber Industry Rush
    GCHQ Steadily Sparks UK Cyber Industry Rush

    The cyber industry hub supporting Britain’s GCHQ is continuing to grow with Northrop Grumman becoming the latest company to set up development and innovation facilities close by the headquarters of the intelligence center