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The Ministry of Defence has opened market engagement on a new Jet Training System that will deliver replacement aircraft for fast jet training and for the Red Arrows, ahead of the Hawk T1 leaving service.
HMS Tyne closed to five nautical miles and kept watching as the Russian frigate Neustrashimy fired her 100mm gun outside UK and French waters, part of 21 days of Royal Navy monitoring operations in July.
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has visited Babcock's Rosyth facility, where Type 31 frigates are under construction, on his first trip to Scotland since taking the post.
The Ministry of Defence has awarded GE Energy Power Conversion UK a five-year contract to deliver technical training on the 690V switchboards and frequency converters fitted to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's Tide-class tankers.
The Ministry of Defence intends to place a single-source contract for the Sharpshooter enabling requirement, with delivery running for two years from October 2026.
The Ministry of Defence has awarded Microsoft a contract worth just over £13.3 million covering access to the Microsoft Threat Analysis Centre from 2026 to 2028.
US Marines have conducted what the service describes as the first overhead live-fire range at Camp Schwab in Okinawa, with machine gunners firing while other members of the platoon manoeuvred forward of the firing line.
British Joint Terminal Attack Controllers have directed US Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft during close air support training at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia.
The US Air Force has carried out a live weapons test involving a YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft, with the uncrewed aircraft firing an AIM-120 air-to-air missile during a flight over the Mojave Desert.
Saab has received an order for two GlobalEye airborne early warning and control aircraft from an undisclosed customer in the Middle East, with deliveries scheduled for 2030.
