Fresh halt to Ajax training after 30 troops unwell
The MOD has paused all Ajax training after around 30 soldiers reported noise and vibration injuries, with Minister Luke Pollard ordering an urgent investigation.
PwC says Budget gives room to be bold on defence investment
PwC has argued that the Autumn Budget creates political space for a more assertive approach to defence spending and modernisation, following the Chancellor’s decision to reaffirm a rise in defence expenditure to 2.6 percent of GDP by April.
UK moves ahead with plan to convert Warriors into drones
The government has confirmed that Project ATILLA, the Army’s plan to convert retired Warrior infantry fighting vehicles into optionally crewed minefield-breaching platforms, has now advanced beyond its initial concept work and entered the early stages of commercial competition.
Funding for new munitions factories questioned
The Ministry of Defence is continuing to face questions over the financial underpinnings of its £1.5 billion plan to build six new munitions and energetics factories.
Army specialists rehearse chemical attack response
Scenarios included locating suspect items in buildings and vehicles, rendering them safe, and carrying out forensic recovery while working inside cordoned urban areas.
BAE and GDLS partner to offer Beowulf to Canada
BAE Systems Hägglunds and General Dynamics Land Systems have signed a teaming agreement to propose the Beowulf all terrain vehicle for the Canadian Army’s Domestic Arctic Mobility Enhancement programme.
Proof Scottish pro-Indy account network operated from Iran
Proof from X/Twitter now confirms that prominent independence campaigners, shared widely by unsuspecting users, were in fact operated from inside Iran while posing as Scottish accounts.
Britain lacks dates for defence procurement speed up
Efforts to speed up defence procurement remain undefined as the MOD acknowledges it has set no firm timetable for meeting its accelerated contracting targets.
Ukraine faces ‘loss of dignity or loss of a partner’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a stark address to the nation today, drawing deliberate parallels with his wartime speech on the morning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Denmark orders 44 more CV90 vehicles from BAE Systems
Denmark has ordered 44 additional CV90 MkIIIC infantry fighting vehicles from BAE Systems Hägglunds under a contract valued at about $450 million.
