Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group have signed an exclusive agreement with QinetiQ to market, sell and install the latest generation of lightweight armour for the C-130 Hercules.

A group of caves, situated thirty miles north-west of Tikrit, were confirmed as being used by Islamic State both as accommodation and storage for improvised explosive devices.

The RAF say that after the usual precautionary check of the area for civilians, the aircraft attacked with four Paveway IVs, all of which struck their targets successfully.

A team of 5 RAF engineers successfully completed an intricate engine change on an A400M aircraft. 

A pair of Typhoon FGR4s, supported by a Voyager air refuelling tanker, recently joined other coalition aircraft in an operation against Islamic State positions.

In a new report, the Public Accounts Committee blasted the Ministry of Defence’s continued "lamentable failure" to "get a grip" and deliver on key defence capabilities needed by the UK Armed Forces.

British paratroopers have jumped with British parachutes from a US Air Force aircraft for the first time, developing the ability of British and American airborne forces to operate together.

The British Reaper drone conducted two attacks in succession, destroying the bunker with a GBU-12 guided bomb and then hitting Islamic State terrorists who were outside the bunker with a Hellfire missile.

A £65 million contract has been awarded to build the UK’s first three Protector drones. 

Earlier in the year, US Senator Tom Cotton warned that the UK’s decision to allow Huawei to build aspects of its 5G network "raises too great a risk for us to have that advanced aircraft in any nation with this system", he said speaking of US F-35 deployments in the UK.