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The MoD is preparing to tender a five-year contract for the assurance vetting of ocean tankers carrying its fuel, worth an estimated £87,530 and running from February 2027. Two ships on long-term charter carry most of the requirement.
Former UK Defence Attaché to Moscow says the real question in the Pentagon's Europe review is not troop numbers, but which military jobs America keeps doing and which Europe must take on itself.
Three tank regiments at 56 each, plus 22 for training. That is 190. Challenger 3 will deliver 148. A new paper by Robert Clark puts 3rd Division 42 tanks short and wants the order raised to 198 at £650mn.
Royal Navy divers and hydrographic specialists have spent six weeks with US and Australian counterparts on Exercise Lanternfish, testing how the AUKUS partners detect and respond to threats to critical undersea infrastructure.
Italian Eurofighters have scrambled from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania to intercept two Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, in the first such launch since Italy took over from France.
Airbus Operations Limited has paid HMRC more than £6.4m after admitting multiple breaches of Strategic Export Controls, the largest compound settlement ever reached for strategic export offences.
Nineteen medics from Portsmouth Flotilla ships have completed the first Combat Medic Course taught partly at sea, with practical training aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. It is the eighth time the course has run, and the first on a warship.
Three of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's four Kilo class submarines have partially submerged inside their own harbour at Novorossiysk, according to British Defence Intelligence.
The Torpedo Repair and Maintenance contract runs from July 2026 to June 2029 and covers both torpedo weapons in Royal Navy service, carried by submarines, surface warships and maritime patrol aircraft.
Saildrone says one of its Voyager unmanned surface vehicles directly enabled a US Navy interdiction that seized over $81m of cocaine, as the U.S. Navy awards a $16.3m task order extending the fleet's time on station in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
