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US Air Force B-1B Lancers, F-15E Strike Eagles and F-35A Lightning IIs flew together over the North Sea during Astral Knight 26, a major US air and missile defence exercise running across the United Kingdom.
NATO's Nuclear Planning Group has issued its first ministerial statement on nuclear deterrence since 2007, pledging to modernise nuclear capabilities and strengthen planning, as a senior NATO official said the alliance's atomic guarantee remains rock solid.
Britain will give Ukraine 150,000 drones and over 350 air defence missiles and radars in a GBP 752 million package funded from immobilised Russian assets, the Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis has announced in Brussels, where he also met President Zelensky.
The United Kingdom and five European allies have agreed to move their joint long-range strike initiative from a planning effort into standalone delivery groups, accelerating work on a range of missiles, launchers and deep-strike systems.
General Atomics has won a US Air Force production contract for the FQ-42A, a purpose-built uncrewed fighter designed to fly alongside crewed jets, one of the first aircraft to carry the new "FQ" designation for an uncrewed fighter.
The US Secretary of War Pete told NATO that some allies must still do more as he and Mark Rutte hailed the arrival of a harder-edged "NATO 3.0".
US Marines have carried out a live-fire drill defending the USS Portland in the South China Sea, as the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group operates in contested Indo-Pacific waters.
F-35B stealth jets have embarked on HMS Prince of Wales as the carrier conducts NATO's Arctic Sentry vigilance in the North Atlantic, alongside HMS Duncan and RFA Tidespring.
The Ministry of Defence has disclosed that 23 firearms were recorded as lost or stolen over five years, including two general purpose machine guns and an SA80 rifle, though more than half were deactivated, airsoft or cadet weapons unable to fire live rounds.
American F-35s, F-15Es and B-1B bombers are flying from British bases in Astral Knight 2026, an air and missile defence exercise, rehearsing the defence of allied airspace and strikes against simulated enemy forces.
