Tekever UK UAV Overmatch investment is expected to reshape the country’s defence manufacturing footprint. Below is an excerpt from FlightGlobal’s coverage.
April 2, 2025 FlightGlobal – Tekever UK UAV Overmatch – Unmanned air vehicle (UAV) producer Tekever is to invest over £400 million ($532 million) to boost its activities in the UK and add more than 1,000 employees to its workforce.
Dubbed Overmatch, the industrial effort was announced on 2 May, as the company’s AR3 tactical UAV was named as the platform element of a new autonomous collaborative platform now available for frontline use by the Royal Air Force (RAF).
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Named StormShroud, the system will use Leonardo UK’s BriteStorm stand-in jammer technology to disrupt enemy integrated air defence system radars in support of the Eurofighter Typhoon and Lockheed Martin F-35B.
The airframer notes that the RAF’s new StormShroud system draws on its extensive experience with providing the AR3 to Kyiv’s armed forces.
“Since 2022, the AI-enabled AR3 has…
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