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Craig Langford

Craig Langford
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Trained as a mechanical engineer, Craig took an unconventional route into journalism, bringing with him a rare technical precision and analytical depth that continues to set his reporting apart.

UK tells OSCE Russia chose war and can choose to end it

Britain has, in a statement to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, set out what it called the fundamental facts of Russia's war against Ukraine.

US and Royal Navy crews train for sea rescue off Scotland

Royal Navy helicopter crews have trained with the Kentucky Air National Guard off the Scottish coast in a multinational search-and-rescue exercise involving US C-130J Super Hercules aircraft and Merlin helicopters.

Arrestor gear contract to go to Marshall

The Ministry of Defence intends to extend and combine two contracts with Marshall Land Systems covering the aircraft arrestor systems used at British and overseas military airfields.

Rutte calls Lithuanian drone shootdown collective defence

The destruction of a drone that violated Lithuanian airspace by Italian jets flying from Šiauliai was collective defence in action, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

Royal Navy navigation interface work to go to OSI Maritime

The Ministry of Defence intends to award OSI Maritime Systems a two-year contract worth £15m to design, build, install and assure replacement interface units connecting the Royal Navy's electronic chart system to its combat systems.

NATO sets out plan to make allied forces quantum ready

NATO has published a public summary of a quantum technology roadmap intended to speed up the adoption of quantum computing, communication and sensing across the alliance and allied armed forces.

BAE friend or foe system certified for US Air Force F-16

BAE Systems has received AIMS certification for a new Identification Friend or Foe unit fitted to the United States Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Sunken American frigate will become a reef off Scotland

The decommissioned frigate USS Klakring, sunk by British and American forces off the Hebrides this month, will become a natural reef on the seabed, and the environmental approvals were obtained before the exercise took place.

No uncrewed systems used in warship sinking off Scotland

No uncrewed systems took part at any stage of the exercise that ended with the sinking of the decommissioned American frigate USS Klakring off the Hebrides, the officer who commanded it has confirmed.

Defence Secretary hails response to Fairford incident

Wes Streeting opened his speech to the Labour Party conference telling delegates that the work of the police, the armed forces and the intelligence agencies over the weekend was a small glimpse of what those organisations do unseen every day.