With costs rising across the defence portfolio, the Royal Navy may be forced to make hard choices. Delaying or dropping Type 32 remains a very real possibility.
Challenger 2s in Ukraine were praised for accuracy and protection but struggled with weight, mobility and logistics. Four destroyed. Few remain. Challenger 3 is new but comes in too few numbers argues Lt. Col. Stuart Crawford.
Writing in the UK Defence Journal, former RAF Wing Commander and Defence Select Committee member Calvin Bailey MP argues that Britain’s fast jet force risks collapse without urgent decisions on F-35 orders, Typhoon procurement, and GCAP timelines.
Russia-Ukraine talks: both sides play for time and wait for Donald Trump’s 50 days to run out.
US backs Nato's latest pledge of support for Ukraine, but in reality seems to have abandoned its European partners, argues Stefan Wolff.
Project CABOT will require robust underwater comms, long-endurance uncrewed vehicles, seamless data fusion, and cultural change across the Navy.
— David O’Sullivan, Thales’s Maritime Autonomy Capture Lead
Responses flooded in, pointing to Moscow’s long record of “not planning” to do things that it soon does anyway.
The UK might be relinquishing its last foothold in the Indian Ocean for almost no return warns author J. Vitor Tossini in this submisison to the UK Defence Journal.
There is now a ticking clock on reinventing the transatlantic alliance.
Why it matters for European security if an American no longer commands Nato troops – by a former Trident submarine commander.
