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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that the government's long-awaited Defence Investment Plan will be published before the NATO Summit in July.
A year after the Strategic Defence Review pledged up to 7,000 new long range weapons, the commitment still has no published timeline, because the plan meant to translate it into firm orders has yet to appear.
The United States Marine Corps has retired the AV-8B Harrier II, bringing to a close more than four decades of service for the distinctive jump jet.
A British firm's naval guns are fitted to almost all US Navy and Coast Guard ships but hardly any Royal Navy vessels, the Treasury Committee has heard, in an example of domestic capability the UK is said to be overlooking.
The Ministry of Defence intends to place a contract for the prototyping of an artificial intelligence decision-support capability, known as Project Strong.
The Ministry of Defence has been criticised for buying standard steel from China that British mills produce, with the head of Make UK Defence calling the practice unacceptable as a new 50 per cent steel tariff approaches.
A thermal image said to have been captured at night near the secretive Groom Lake base appears to show an unfamiliar aircraft with a cranked-kite planform, prompting speculation online that it could be a demonstrator linked to the US Air Force F-47 fighter.
The Ministry of Defence's headline claim that the bulk of its contracts are placed with UK-based businesses has been questioned by industry, which says the figure depends on what counts as a British company.
Operation Interflex, the UK-led programme that has trained more than 63,000 Ukrainians since 2022, is entering a new phase moving away from mass infantry training towards specialist areas including aviation, medical, engineering and logistics.
The first Type 31 frigate, HMS Venturer, is still only committed to being handed to the Royal Navy "by the end of the decade", a defence minister has said, declining to give a firm initial operating capability date.
