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Navantia UK has secured a second new-build vessel export contract for its Methil yard in Fife and is recruiting 60 additional skilled workers as activity at the site increases.
A US Navy F-35C Lightning II has completed the first arrested landing by the type aboard a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, with the milestone taking place aboard the future USS John F. Kennedy during aircraft compatibility testing in the Atlantic.
A US Air Force F-22 Raptor has directed a YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft during an airborne tactical-control demonstration, with the fighter pilot issuing commands that were interpreted and executed autonomously by the uncrewed aircraft.
The Ministry of Defence has refused to publish a risk assessment of private sector involvement in running the Solid State Phased Array Radar at RAF Fylingdales, saying the recent contract activity continues arrangements that have been in place for years.
The Ministry of Defence must deliver £10.7 billion of efficiencies over four years, with the annual target rising from £1.4 billion this year to £3.5 billion by 2028-29.
Britain has designated Russia's largest shipbuilding corporation on the grounds that it supplied frigates and other warship classes deployed in Crimea, and the sanctions list now names 645 individual ships under the Russia regulations.
Britain has taken command of NATO's Atlantic headquarters with twenty-seven of its own seventy-one posts there still unfilled, and the Ministry of Defence does not expect to complete them until the end of 2027.
Ukrainian personnel ran maritime operations through the Delta combat system at NATO's REPMUS 2026 exercise in Portugal, integrating every asset transmitting data to NATO standards.
The Ministry of Defence has refused to say when each of the seventy-eight Warrior infantry fighting vehicles removed from the fleet in the past year was disposed of.
An additional £470 million is being spent on improving the security of critical military sites across Britain, alongside £240 million for an enhanced counter-drone system called Project PRESAGIUM.
