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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.
Ukraine has received more than 650 applications to register on TrophyLab, its web portal for the study of captured Russian equipment, of which 389 came from foreign defence manufacturers.
The Ministry of Defence has declined to estimate how far the completion of the submarine HMS Achilles has slipped as a result of the...
The life extension programme for HMS Iron Duke cost £102.9 million and ran for 208 weeks between May 2019 and May 2023, and a further £4.7 million was spent on a towed sonar array conversion that was then cancelled.
British F-35 jets will fly from HMS Prince of Wales in the Arctic and North Atlantic when the carrier sails from Portsmouth on Sunday, returning fifth-generation airpower to the skies of the High North.
The heavy lift contract that carried the minehunter HMS Bangor back to Britain from Bahrain cost £4.13million, and the ship arrived on 29 November last year.
HMS Prince of Wales sails from Portsmouth on Sunday for the Arctic and North Atlantic, leading the UK Carrier Strike Group into the second phase of Operation Firecrest under NATO command.
Sanctioned vessels sailing in and out of the Russian Arctic now account for nearly a third of all cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route, and pose what the government describes as a potentially serious threat to British interests.
Ukrainian air defences destroyed more than 4,700 drones and missiles during September while repelling large-scale Russian attacks, and neutralised more than 48,000 tactical uncrewed aerial vehicles over the same month.
The Ministry of Defence is working towards starting the British Army Training Unit Suffield commitment in April 2027, and funding is still being allocated through the department's planning cycle.
