British stratospheric spy flight planned for next year
Project AETHER is planning a multi-payload, long endurance flight in the 2027-28 financial year to demonstrate a broader range of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection from stratospheric altitudes.
Ground crews still excluded from nuclear test medal
There are no plans to extend the Nuclear Test Medal to personnel of 543 and 27 Squadrons who recovered, washed, decontaminated and maintained aircraft used for nuclear cloud sampling.
UK defence spending target of 3 percent by 2030
The Chancellor has set a target date of 2030 for British defence spending to reach three per cent of gross domestic product.
Eleven of sixteen Protector drones now delivered
Sixteen Protector RG Mk1 air vehicles have been bought for the Royal Air Force and eleven have been delivered into service, with the remainder still in test and evaluation with the manufacturer.
No decision on Palantir role in targeting network
Palantir products are used across the defence digital and data ecosystem and that is expected to continue in some form, but no decisions have been taken on parts of the Digital Targeting Web.
American special forces buy Tekever drones
United States Special Operations Command has bought uncrewed aircraft from Tekever after a programme of validation and acceptance testing backed by training and an extensive flight programme at several locations.
BAE to build thirty five thousand guidance kits a year
BAE Systems has signed a framework agreement running up to seven years with the United States Department of War to lift production of APKWS laser guidance kits to as many as thirty five thousand a year.
Anduril unveils family of air defence interceptors
Anduril has revealed Steelfin, a family of surface-to-air interceptor missiles built on a common two-stage architecture so that one production line can turn out versions for everything from point defence to upper-tier ballistic missile defence.
Britain told to plan for war without Trump’s America
A Leicester security academic calls the American president a Russophile and, in his words, a traitor to the West’s liberal-democratic values, and says Britain must plan to fight alone on five per cent of GDP.
American bomber escorted by British and Norwegian F-35s
British F-35Bs flying from HMS Prince of Wales and Norwegian F-35As have escorted a United States Air Force B-52 on a nuclear exercise.
