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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan has faced a sustained barrage of drone and missile threats during a concentrated 72-hour exercise off the Welsh coast.
Controversy over operations, conduct and civil military tensions has cast uncertainty over Pete Hegseth’s standing at the Pentagon, Dorcha Lee, former Irish Defence Forces Provost Marshal and Director of Military Police, argues.
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer has officially opened its first UK production facility in an expansion of defence industrial cooperation between London and Kyiv.
Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has set out how the Scottish Government is seeking to strengthen the skills base behind major shipbuilding programmes such as the Type 31 frigates at Rosyth.
HMS Active rolled out of the build hall at Rosyth this week, and you could feel what it meant to the people there.
Babcock has marked two major milestones on the Royal Navy’s Type 31 programme in a single day, cutting steel on HMS Bulldog while rolling HMS Active out of the build hall at Rosyth.
The funding will support the manufacture of critical components for nuclear propulsion systems destined for Australia’s first two SSN-AUKUS submarines, which are to be built at Osborne in South Australia.
The UK Government has announced a new package of military, humanitarian and reconstruction support for Ukraine, marking four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The UK is continuing to explore the potential use of Australian-developed Active Electronically Scanned Array radar technology on British platforms, following talks between defence ministers in London.
Global defence spending rose to USD 2.63 trillion in 2025, up 2.5 per cent year on year, as great power rivalry and national insecurity continued to drive military investment, according to the latest edition of The Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
