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Fourteen of the twenty-four Hawk T1 jets still on the books of the Royal Air Force have used up more than eighty per cent of their fatigue index, the Ministry of Defence has said.
Britain's plan to put its two Falcon 900LX ministerial jets onto the Military Aircraft Register and to fit them with the defensive countermeasures needed for dangerous airspace has been paused while other work takes priority.
Around 6,000 troops from 15 NATO nations and a 20-ship task force have set sail from Gdynia for BALTOPS 2026, the alliance's biggest annual Baltic exercise.
NATO has launched Task Force X-Arctic, an eighteen-month run of trials off Iceland testing whether networked uncrewed systems can deliver persistent watch over the High North, extending a model first tried in the Baltic.
QinetiQ has installed a new six-metre water tank at MOD Portland Bill to measure the magnetic signatures of the uncrewed mine-hunting vessels Britain is bringing into service.
RBSL says its Challenger 3 trial tanks have been driven hard across country, run on roads and exercised through gunnery and full crew drills in recent Battlefield Mission serials.
The Inspiration class is a low-risk and adaptable design that suits the warfare the Royal Navy now expects, and several allied navies have chosen the same hull for themselves.
STARK has unveiled two new unmanned systems for NATO forces, a tube-launched loitering munition called Cascade with a reach of up to 100 kilometres and a man-portable quadcopter called Gambit.
Rheinmetall says it has signed a EUR 5.7bn order to supply Romania with Lynx armoured vehicles, Skyranger air defence systems, ammunition and four small warships, funded through the EU SAFE defence finance mechanism.
New Ministry of Defence figures, released to Defence Committee chair Tan Dhesi, show how many personnel who left the trained regular forces in 2014 later rejoined.
