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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has met US President Donald Trump at the White House to prepare for the alliance's summit in Ankara next month.
A Singapore-based manufacturer, ST Engineering Advanced Material Engineering, is to sign a contract worth almost GBP 66 million to supply the British military with 40mm grenades, according to a contract award notice.
MBDA and Safran have entered final contract talks with the DGA to supply THUNDART, a guided rocket reaching up to 150km, as France replaces its ageing LRU launchers with a sovereign deep-strike system.
Britain is to build a fleet of warships designed to command uncrewed systems across the air, surface and subsurface, planning at least six new Common Combat Vessels to replace the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers.
The Royal Navy's planned Type 83 destroyer has been dropped in favour of six new Common Combat Vessels built to coordinate drones, under the government's long-delayed Defence Investment Plan, the Sunday Times was first to report.
Britain is planning new larger Amphibious Transport Ships to support Commando operations, aiming to create a new combined fleet with the Netherlands.
The British Army has invested GBP 300 million in attritable and consumable systems over the past six months, placing 10,000 small drones into soldiers' hands, the UK Defence Journal understands.
UK armed forces are now under half their 1980s size, according to the SNP. Westminster leader Dave Doogan says "Westminster is putting Scotland's safety at risk".
The difficulty in keeping Britain's hunter-killer submarines available for operations has once more left the Royal Navy without a single attack boat at sea, according to open-source tracking.
The United States has carried out strikes on Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and coastal radar positions in response to an Iranian drone attack on a commercial cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM stated.
