The Hawk T2 aircraft will leave service in 2040.

SeaGuardian will next participate in Exercise Joint Warrior to showcase how the MQ-9B's maritime capabilities can be integrated with other air, surface and land platforms.

Kazakhstan has placed an order for two Airbus A400M aircraft and becomes the ninth operator together with Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Malaysia and Luxembourg.

An Indian news channel has broadcast a clip of an American F-15 flying in Wales and claimed it is proof of a "full fledged Pakistani invasion" of Afghanistan.

The weekly publication will include a round-up of the most important defence news items over the last week.

The Ministry of Defence say that the long-term home for the fleet of submarine-hunting aircraft in Scotland will be known as the Atlantic Building.

Aircraft from British carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and American carrier USS Carl Vinson have conducted joint interoperability flights in the Pacific.

Typhoon jets, a Voyager tanker and a Falcon 20 playing the target have been practising Quick Reaction Alert skills today off the south coast of England.

The UK had planned to retire the Hawk T1 fleet by 2025, this has now been brought forward.

Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston has indicated that the Royal Air Force would be ready to strike Islamic State targets in Afghanistan.