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NATO shoots down drone deep inside alliance airspace

An unknown drone came in over the Danube and tracked inland across two Romanian counties before an F-16 put a missile into it above an empty field. Nobody will yet say whose it was.
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Ukrainian fleet trains with NATO off English coast

Five Ukrainian minehunters donated by Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands have spent a fortnight off Portland learning to clear sea mines alongside NATO allies.

Carrier jets guarded Arctic skies against Russian aircraft

HMS Prince of Wales is back in Portsmouth after three months on NATO's Northern Flank, with F-35Bs reaching as far as Poland.

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Construction site: a large steel-framed warehouse under a curved roof with white fabric walls against a blue sky.

New building rises at Navantia’s Methil yard in Fife

Construction of a new covered facility is under way at Methil as part of Navantia UK's £157m investment programme, with the Fife yard's workforce having grown to more than 260 as it takes on a major export order.
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Fleet of NATO warships arrives on the Clyde

Warships from NATO's Standing Maritime Group One have arrived on the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Silhouetted naval ships on a glittering ocean at sunset

Ukrainian fleet trains with NATO off English coast

Five Ukrainian minehunters donated by Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands have spent a fortnight off Portland learning to clear sea mines alongside NATO allies.

Carrier jets guarded Arctic skies against Russian aircraft

HMS Prince of Wales is back in Portsmouth after three months on NATO's Northern Flank, with F-35Bs reaching as far as Poland.
Two large grey military ships docked at a pier on a cloudy day, reflecting in calm water.

Royal Navy’s last Hunt-class minehunter to go by 2031

The Royal Navy's final Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel is due to leave service in 2031, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed in response to a parliamentary question.

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Unmanned military drone taxiing on a runway with a control tower and desert mountains in the background.

MGI Engineering unveils Vortex drone for StormFighter bid

Oxfordshire firm MGI Engineering has launched the T-022 Vortex, a near-supersonic autonomous combat aircraft it is pitching at the RAF's StormFighter requirement, priced at £3m to £6m per airframe.
Three silhouetted fighter jets fly in formation across a clear blue sky, with faint reflections below on the water surface.

Romania shoots down second drone in two days

An F-16 brought down another drone over the Danube Delta on Saturday morning, a day after Romania destroyed an intruder in its airspace for the first time.

British Army to replace Watchkeeper with Tekever AR5 drones

The British Army has selected the Tekever AR5 to replace its Watchkeeper drones under a deal worth up to £400m over ten years, with the surveillance aircraft to be built at a new Tekever plant in Swindon.

Typhoon jets scrambled as Qatar airliner sparks ‘concern’

RAF Typhoons were scrambled to intercept a Qatar Airways 777 from Doha to Manchester earlier today , after the flight caused concern to civil authorities.

NATO shoots down drone deep inside alliance airspace

An unknown drone came in over the Danube and tracked inland across two Romanian counties before an F-16 put a missile into it above an empty field. Nobody will yet say whose it was.

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UK exposes Russian ‘zero-click’ campaign stealing emails

Security Minister Dan Jarvis said Russian state-supported hackers had "tested their methods on victims in Ukraine, before targeting members of NATO", as the NCSC and 15 partner nations exposed the LAUNDRY BEAR group.

British general takes command of Ukraine force

A senior British officer has taken command of the multinational force that would deploy to Ukraine once hostilities end.
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Man jailed after explosives guides found on phone

Abdullah bin Yassir, 23, has been jailed for two and a half years after detectives found documents setting out how to manufacture explosives, alongside other Islamist terrorist material, on his digital devices.

Man jailed over far-right plot after online radicalisation

Alfie Coleman, 22, has been jailed for 13 and a half years for planning an extreme right-wing terrorist attack, arrested moments after buying a pistol and ammunition from undercover operatives in a Stratford car park.

Two jailed over Iran-linked stabbing of UK journalist

Two Romanian men have been jailed for stabbing a journalist in south London in an attack assessed as having been carried out on behalf of or for the benefit of the Iranian regime, Counter Terrorism Policing stated.

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Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard is undergoing a major overhaul under Navantia UK, with new steel-processing lines, upgraded facilities and workforce expansion aimed at supporting Fleet Solid Support and future naval construction.
We went behind the scenes at Thales UK’s optronics site in Glasgow, where the same people who build periscopes and sighting systems for the armed forces are also opening paths into engineering for young people across the city.

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