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​ If you’re looking for a job or trying to find the best people for your requirements, working with a recruitment consultant can amplify your efforts significantly, providing you with tremendous reach both in terms of candidates and businesses. A good recruitment consultancy will have vast databases of vetted candidates and relevant businesses with agreed terms. Both of whic...

Lockheed Martin (and their shareholders) have breathed a collective sigh of relief having reached a ‘handshake agreement’ with the US Department of Defence for hundreds of F35 joint strike fighters, worth $34 billion. It’s welcome news as Lockheed Martin have been struggling to reduce production costs, bringing the fighter's future in to question. At present the F35A costs t...

On the 20th June 2019 Iran shot down an unarmed US Global Hawk surveillance drone. They claimed it had wandered into their airspace and were – therefore within their rights to act. Typically, the US stand by the assertion that the drone was operating outside of Iranian airspace and as such the attack was unwarranted. Regardless of which side of the line the drone was on, the...

Both drones and armed UAVs have been a way of life for a few years now. Drones and their controllers occupy something of a love/hate relationship with the rest of society. They are a harmless pass time one minute and a nuisance the next. And occasionally they’re used by activists to bring airports to their knees. In December 2018 Gatwick Airport was shut down for 33 hours du...

When the General Dynamics built Ajax armoured fighting vehicle was announced in 2014 it was considered to be one of the most versatile and sophisticated war machines in the world. It impressed all the right people and the Ministry of Defence committed to ordering 589 vehicles across the Ajax, Protected Mobility Recce Support (PMRS) and Engineering variants. Estimated at arou...

Starting a new job is an exciting experience. Whatever the reason for leaving your old role, you’re joining a new company with new challenges. It’s also an opportunity to build fresh relationships and advance your career in a way that may not have been possible where you were. Starting a new job is a bounty of opportunities that comes with a splendid new desk and shiny new b...

The combustion engine in its current form is an incredible feat of engineering. The synergy between mechanics, electrics and electronics is akin to the kind of symbiosis found in nature. Oh the irony. The automotive industry has worked tirelessly to squeeze every ounce of power out what is – essentially – a 160-year-old piece of technology. All the while trying to use as lit...

The 2015 Ridley Scott blockbuster The Martian starring Matt Damon depicted a near future in which we sent a team of scientists to determine the viability of colonising Mars. Needless to say, things go sideways and the team end up stranding Damon’s character – Mark Watney – on the Red Planet. In amongst the themes of self-dependence, triumph of the human spirit and some cutti...

Tune into any UK news channel or broadcast and it’ll be all but impossible to avoid something about Brexit. Now 75 days (at time of writing) past the original deadline to leave the EU, the nation still wallows in political deadlock while businesses try to protect themselves against a No Deal Brexit. Something parliament voted to avoid at all costs. Although they have also re...

Every now and then there is an innovation that flies in the face of what’s known or accepted in an industry. That breaks the rules or shakes things up in such a way that those in that industry don't think the same way any more. Aerospace is an industry that walks the tightrope between innovation and the status quo quite expertly because safety is such a massive issue. Anythi...