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UK defence

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK sent Kyiv large supplies of old military equipment, watchdog finds

    Defence ministry dispatched kit ‘due to be scrapped or replaced’, according to National Audit Office

    Royal Anglian troops sort and prepare ballistic helmets for shipping to Ukraine in March 2022
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    UK defence nuclear
    US and UK plan indefinite extension of nuclear weapons co-operation pact

    Planned changes to Mutual Defence Agreement come as allies embark on costly modernisations of deterrent

    A Trident missile test-fired by a Royal Navy submarine
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    UK’s defence helicopter competition in disarray after two bidders withdraw

    Airbus and Lockheed Martin pull out leaving just Leonardo UK in the contest to replace ageing Puma

    A formation of Puma helicopters
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK defence spending
    MoD asks defence suppliers to identify budget cuts

    Contractors told that department faces ‘significant fiscal pressure’ and needs to make some hard choices

    The MoD building in Whitehall
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK submarines hit by ‘underfunding’, warns former First Sea Lord

    New ‘hunter killer’ subs are stuck in port due to lack of repair docks, raising concerns over health of Britain’s attack fleet

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    UK signs new defence pact with Germany

    New defence secretary John Healey promises to ‘reset’ the country’s relations with European allies

    British Defence Minister John Healey walks with German Ministry of Defense Boris Pistorius
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK has 3 years to prepare for war, says army chief

    General Sir Roly Walker unveils reform plan to deal with ‘geopolitical threats’ of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea

    Soldiers of the United Kingdom’s 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian infantry unit storm an enemy position in a simulated attack during the NATO ‘Brilliant Jump’ military exercises
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Next generation fighter jet project ‘important’ to UK says Starmer

    Defence review has raised questions about whether GCAP programme will be axed on grounds of cost

    A person walks past the Global Combat Air Programme fighter jet concept design on the opening day of the Farnborough International Airshow
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    China poses ‘deadly’ threat to UK, says former Nato boss

    Warning from Lord George Robertson as he heads British strategic defence review

    Lord George Robertson
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    What’s the point of war if you can’t make money from it?

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

    Illustration of Rutherford Hall in suit with open necked pink shirt and glasses, holding a mobile phone
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Starmer plans ‘road map’ for UK to hit higher defence spending goal

    New British prime minister is attending his first Nato summit in Washington

    Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to meet British troops at a Nato base near the Russian border in Estonia in December 2023
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    InterviewUK defence spending
    UK military unprepared for ‘conflict of any scale’, warns ex-defence official

    Britain’s armed forces would be unable to defend the country in the event of a serious threat, ex-MoD official warns

    British paratrooper on exercise
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    UK defence spending
    MoD accused of wasting £174mn on advice for army’s new battlefield radio

    ‘External assistance’ has added to costs of a communications system mired in delays

    A soldier from the Long Range Reconnaissance Task Group listens to his radio
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    Lex
    Hitting defence targets is not as simple as money Premium content

    Biggest UK defence groups rely on tens of thousands of global suppliers

    A tank on display at a BAE Systems stand at a security expo
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Chemring Group PLC
    Chemring predicts decade of rearmament as conflicts drive record orders

    UK defence group says larger contractors are seeking longer-term supply agreements

    British and Ukrainian soldiers taking part in a field training session in England
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour to unveil ex-military candidates in security pitch to voters

    Starmer to pledge continuation of Trident system, dubbed ‘nuclear deterrent triple lock’

    Labour leader Keir Starmer visits the Tapa Nato forward operating base in Estonia
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak doubles down on national service plan as Tory discontent mounts

    Bosses should give priority to job applicants who have served in the military, says prime minister

    Rishi Sunak with supporters at a campaign event
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK orders up to six new warships for Royal Marines

    Grant Shapps says new force will help Britain to ‘fight the battles of the future’

    Britain’s Royal Navy’s amphibious transport dock HMS Albion
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Ministry of Defence UK
    UK suspects China behind cyber attack on military personnel data

    Defence secretary Grant Shapps set to accuse hostile state of hack but is not expected to name Beijing

    Close-up of hands working on computer keyboard
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Michael Peel
    What the Gurkhas of Brunei tell us about British military overstretch

    A battalion of troops remains in the tiny petrostate

    Illustration of a British bulldog as a slinky dog with the springcoil stretching off into the distance
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour says it will not slash UK civil service if elected

    Party officials describe Tories’ plan to cut Whitehall jobs to fund defence spending increase as ‘fanciful’

    Labour leader Keir Starmer during a visit to a BAE Systems facility in Barrow-in-Furness earlier this month
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    Lessons for investors from the history of war finance

    Governments rarely tell voters the true cost of military adventures, or how they intend to pay for them

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of dollar bills crushed on a military helmet as camouflage cover
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    UK defence spending
    Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere

    Economists and opposition question how government will lift MoD share of GDP to 2.5% and find extra £75bn

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to press at the German chancellery in Berlin
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    UK defence spending
    Sunak pledges big boost to UK defence spending by 2030

    Prime minister says military budget will rise to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade

    Rishi Sunak in Warsaw on Tuesday
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Sunak to increase UK military aid to Ukraine to £3bn this year

    Pledge of extra £500mn comes as PM flies to Warsaw and Berlin and announces largest supply of munitions to Kyiv

    Sunak meeting with Zelenskyy in January 2024
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