30th Sep 2025
London, DSEI, 11 September – Beretta Defence Technologies UK (BDT UK), the champion of the dismounted soldier, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading award winning UK engineering firm Cambridge Precision. The agreement follows the launch of BDT UK’s Land Industrial Strategy, which would see the revitalisation of a domestic UK small arms capability as the business strives for a strategic partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Under the MoU, the two businesses will work together to develop a production plan for future domestic small arms components as part of BDT UK’s bid for Project GRAYBURN to replace the British Armed Forces rifle, the SA80. BDT UK will use the company to manufacture the components for its rifles, including the foregrip, upper receiver, lower receiver, trigger assembly and bolt carrier group. Should BDT UK’s GRAYBURN bid be successful, the manufactured parts will then be assembled, inspected, tested and evaluated at BDT UK’s dedicated facility in Faldingworth, Lincolnshire.
Cambridge Precision is an industry-leading precision engineering company serving clients across a variety of sectors. The business has an extensive range of state-of-the-art precision manufacturing engineering machine tools, Collaborative Robotics (Cobot), all supported with advanced Quality Assurance (QA) technologies and integrated digital control systems. All underpinned with the necessary ISO accreditations.
Jack Cadman, Military Group Manager at BDT UK, said: “Our partnership with Cambridge Precision demonstrates our commitment to the UK – we have set out our plan and we are already working to deliver on it. Project GRAYBURN has the potential to inject investment into the UK economy and provide jobs in Lincolnshire, and with our partners across the country. We look forward to working with the team at Cambridge Precision to create high-quality rifles with a UK supply chain from our Center of excellence in Lincolnshire.
Richard Hefford-Hobbs, Chairman at Cambridge Precision, said: “This agreement with BDT UK will allow us to contribute our award-winning experience to develop essential components to keep soldiers safe on the front line. We look forward to building on our existing relationship and will work closely with BDT UK over the coming months to develop an effective strategy to reliably produce components to support Project GRAYBURN.”