Craig Langford
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.
Ministers set out who can stop a ship in British waters
Royal Navy Police may exercise specified maritime enforcement powers in defined circumstances, according to answers given in Parliament.
Inherited procurement system was broken, says Pollard
The procurement system the government inherited was slow, expensive and not fit for a period of 'warfighting readiness', say the Government.
Welsh planning inspector appointed for deep space radar
The Welsh Government has appointed a planning inspector to handle the application for the proposed deep space radar at Cawdor Barracks.
Lockheed Martin to build British hypersonic targets
The Ministry of Defence has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to deliver Project Bowline, a hypersonic target programme supporting the development and testing of missile defence systems against advanced threats.
Sealift replacement gets two hundred and ninety million
The Defence Investment Plan has allocated £290 million for a future strategic sealift capability, with the current contract for the Point class running until the end of 2031 and decommissioning of the existing ships a matter for their private owner.
F-35C makes first arrested landing on Ford carrier
A US Navy F-35C Lightning II has completed the first arrested landing by the type aboard a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, with the milestone taking place aboard the future USS John F. Kennedy during aircraft compatibility testing in the Atlantic.
Defence to find ten billion in savings by decade’s end
The Ministry of Defence must deliver £10.7 billion of efficiencies over four years, with the annual target rising from £1.4 billion this year to £3.5 billion by 2028-29.
The Russian shipyards Britain has placed under sanctions
Britain has designated Russia's largest shipbuilding corporation on the grounds that it supplied frigates and other warship classes deployed in Crimea, and the sanctions list now names 645 individual ships under the Russia regulations.
Britain yet to fill twenty-seven posts at Norfolk command
Britain has taken command of NATO's Atlantic headquarters with twenty-seven of its own seventy-one posts there still unfilled, and the Ministry of Defence does not expect to complete them until the end of 2027.
Warrior disposal dates withheld on security grounds
The Ministry of Defence has refused to say when each of the seventy-eight Warrior infantry fighting vehicles removed from the fleet in the past year was disposed of.
