BAE Systems | Lancashire & North West updates

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BAE Systems have provided the NWAA with some key company updates relating to their work in Lancashire and the North West following their newly published half-year financial results.

 

  • Securing a contract from the UK Government to provide the Republic of Türkiye with training, support equipment and services to its 20 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft ordered in October 2025. Manufacturing on the first components for these aircraft is already underway at our site in Samlesbury, Lancashire and across the Eurofighter partner nations, with first delivery scheduled for 2030. Read more here: New contract for training and support to Turkish Typhoon aircraft

 

  • Successful APKWS® precision weapon test firing from a Eurofighter Typhoon, demonstrating an effective, affordable counter-drone solution. In rapid collaboration with the UK Royal Air Force (RAF), the system was moved from testing to operational deployment in the Middle East in under two months, significantly enhancing the RAF’s ability to counter emerging threats in the region. This included a firing trial which was conducted from BAE Systems’ flight testing facility in Warton, Lancashire in April using one of a the fleet of test-and-evaluation aircraft based there. Read more here: Typhoon test fires game-changing low-cost weapon

 

  • Last week, the company unveiled the UK’s first uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), Brontanax™ at the Farnborough International Airshow. The first-of-its class CCA was designed and built by engineers at our Warton site in Lancashire, is intended to provide electronic warfare and precision strike capabilities against airborne and ground targets. Read more here: First British designed Collaborative Combat Aircraft unveiled

 

  • Edgewing, a joint venture of BAE Systems, Italian firm Leonardo and the Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement Co. Ltd. (JAIEC), secured its first international contracts for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) with a combined value in excess of £5bn. This will enable completion of the advanced concept and assessment phase of the programme, together with further joint detailed design and development with work in the UK carried out in Lancashire. Read more here: New £708m investment in the UK’s next-generation combat air capabilities

To learn more please visit: BAE Systems 2026: half year results

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