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The United States has pledged fewer guaranteed forces to NATO's force model and asked European allies and Canada to take up the slack, in a shift a senior NATO official has insisted can be managed without leaving a significant gap.
Asked by the UK Defence Journal whether Britain's repeatedly delayed Defence Investment Plan is frustrating the alliance, a senior NATO official said what matters is not money but capability delivered on a clear path, with Russia potentially reconstituting.
Defence platforms have a habit of arriving already out of date. IDV says it has built its uncrewed vehicles around that very problem, because the sensors and computing inside them roughly double in capability every eighteen months.
A senior NATO official says the war is turning against Russia, with its territorial gains shrinking, total casualties put at up to 1.5 million and recruitment faltering, even as Ukraine still struggles with air and missile defence.
The defence technology firm MARSS has opened a new office in Nice and begun recruiting to double the size of its global artificial intelligence team.
Ukraine is proving the Russian war machine 'is not unstoppable', NATO chief Mark Rutte says, pledging to press allies to sustain the weapons and ammunition keeping Kyiv in the fight.
Mark Rutte has dismissed fears that US changes to the NATO force model mean Washington is pulling away, casting them instead as Europe and Canada finally carrying more of the alliance's load.
The Ministry of Defence says it keeps the legal framework protecting reservists who take leave from civilian jobs for mandatory training under review, telling Parliament around 9,000 employers have signed up to its recognition scheme.
Inzpire, part of the QinetiQ Group, has delivered its GECO mission support system to the Red Arrows in time for the 2026 display season, fitting a cockpit-mounted tablet to the team's Hawks to aid planning, flypasts and post-flight debriefs.
The Ministry of Defence has acknowledged that proposed international changes to satellite interference rules could affect UK military communications in wartime, telling Parliament the risks are being managed.
