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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.
Army drone deal widened to cover heavier aircraft
The Ministry of Defence intends to raise the maximum take-off weight allowed under the British Army's mini drone contract from twenty kilograms to fifty.
Lib Dems propose six more frigates for Royal Navy
The Liberal Democrats have proposed ordering six additional Royal Navy frigates and expanding British shipbuilding capacity as part of a defence package aimed at responding to the threat from Russia.
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NATO spots Russian submarine in the High North
A Russian Kilo class submarine has been observed in the High North by Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, according to NATO Maritime Command.
Most of Britan’s nuclear missile submarine fleet now at sea
Three of the Royal Navy's four Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines are at sea at the same time, an arrangement naval sources described as unusual, according to reporting in The Times.
Lib Dems propose six more frigates for Royal Navy
The Liberal Democrats have proposed ordering six additional Royal Navy frigates and expanding British shipbuilding capacity as part of a defence package aimed at responding to the threat from Russia.
Babcock opens skills centre on Devonport waterfront
Babcock has opened a Skills Centre at Devonport Dockyard able to support fifteen hundred technical staff and apprentices a year, and has broken ground on an Integrated Logistics Hub at Sherford.
Bluebottle maker opens Sydney plant for forty vessels
Ocius Technology has opened an engineering, production and maintenance hub for its Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessels in Sydney, together with a round-the-clock global operations centre.
AVIATION NEWS
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.
LAND NEWS
Atlas drops seven hundred paratroopers into Germany
Around seven hundred paratroopers have been dropped onto a German drop zone from four Atlas C1 transports across multiple waves.
Up to two billion pounds to replace the SA80 rifle
The programme to replace the SA80 family of weapons carries an estimated value of up to £2 billion and the contract is expected to run from July 2029 until the end of March 2045.
Review under way on array that detects nuclear tests
An independent review has been commissioned into ways of reducing the ground vibration reaching the Eskdalemuir seismic array.
All Boxers built to one standard, says minister
All 623 Boxers are being delivered to a common build standard, which has made variant and build configuration effectively the same thing.
Service leavers offered wind turbine training
People leaving the Armed Forces can take Global Wind Organisation safety and technical training through the Career Transition Partnership as a route into the wind energy industry.
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