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Jobs supported by defence spending on weapons and ammunition manufacturing rose by 51 per cent across the United Kingdom in 2024/25, according to figures published by the Ministry of Defence.
A principle set out by the team building Britain's Digital Targeting Web fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of safeguards, according to a new report from the Royal United Services Institute, which warns that legal and ethical checks cannot speed up a targeting cycle.
The concept aircraft, designated A3-001, is being shown at the Jubilee Air Show at Malmen Air Base in Linköping.
The Ministry of Defence has declined to say what directed energy weapons it is developing alongside DragonFire, telling Parliament only that further announcements will be made when appropriate.
The SNP MSP for Inverclyde has questioned why management at Ferguson Marine failed to secure additional work, describing the announcement of job losses at the Port Glasgow yard as a wake-up call for the company's leadership.
Carl Bildt has said that any Russian aggression in the Baltic would immediately affect the security of Kaliningrad, referencing the concentration of NATO aircraft that has operated around the exclave over the past week.
The Ministry of Defence is working through a series of NATO mechanisms to secure British industrial benefit from the alliance's push to expand collective manufacturing capacity, says (Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard MP.
Shipbuilding and submarine work accounted for 7,900 of the 12,200 jobs supported by Ministry of Defence spending with industry in Scotland in 2024/25, according to official statistics published on Friday.
GMB Scotland has called job losses at Ferguson Marine a betrayal of a blameless workforce, blaming ministers for failing to deliver new contracts while sending shipbuilding work overseas.
The decision to place the first phase of the Small Vessel Replacement Programme with a Polish yard directly caused the job losses now being announced at Port Glasgow, Paul Sweeney MSP has told the UK Defence Journal.
