15 September 2021

DSEI 2021: British Army aims for deep fires portfolio

by Tim Ripley

A portfolio of new surface-to-surface deep fires weapons is to be procured for the British Army to transform its capability to take on and defeat peer-level opponents.

Brigadier John Swift, the British Army's Head of Ground Manoeuvre Capability, told an audience at the DSEI defence exhibition in London on 14 September that fielding the new weapons would be central to the service's “pivot to the deep”.

The new weapons would allow the British Army to strike deep into enemy's rear areas and increase the survivability of the service's own deep strike weapons, he said. This would enable close manoeuvre operations.

A portfolio of new surface-to-surface deep fires weapons is to be procured for the British Army to t...

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