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Royal Regiment of Scotland performs guard of honour

Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland performed the guard of honour for the opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

MoD seeks suppliers for military base perimeter security

The Ministry of Defence has launched preliminary market engagement for Project SENSOREM, an effort to deliver scalable surveillance and security capability across Defence sites.
Several boats sail in formation across a calm sea, leaving white wake trails with a mountainous coastline and overcast sky in the background.

Royal Navy Wildcats take on drones

Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters have completed three weeks of exercises in the fjords around Bergen, developing drone, missile evasion and fast-attack boat tactics alongside the Royal Norwegian Navy during Exercise Tamber Shield.

NAVAL NEWS

Navantia UK begins full Fleet Solid Support production

EXCLUSIVE | Navantia UK confirms production is now underway across all UK sites supporting the Royal Navy's new Fleet Solid Support ships.
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Royal Navy divers clear WWII ordnance in Baltic exercise

Royal Navy divers have been working with NATO allies to clear historic unexploded ordnance from the Gulf of Riga during Exercise Open Spirit.
Two men in blue suits shake hands across a table, smiling, with a model ship on a shelf behind them.

Babcock signs five-year engineering deal with AtkinsRealis

Babcock has entered a five-year engineering framework agreement with AtkinsRéalis to support critical UK defence and submarine programmes. #CNE2026

MoD seeks suppliers for military base perimeter security

The Ministry of Defence has launched preliminary market engagement for Project SENSOREM, an effort to deliver scalable surveillance and security capability across Defence sites.
Several boats sail in formation across a calm sea, leaving white wake trails with a mountainous coastline and overcast sky in the background.

Royal Navy Wildcats take on drones

Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters have completed three weeks of exercises in the fjords around Bergen, developing drone, missile evasion and fast-attack boat tactics alongside the Royal Norwegian Navy during Exercise Tamber Shield.

AVIATION NEWS

RAF scrambles Typhoons north of Shetland

RAF Lossiemouth Typhoons scrambled after an unidentified aircraft was detected heading down the Norwegian coast toward UK airspace.

NATO races to build counter-drone marketplace

The alliance is racing to build a counter-drone marketplace and plans to award the first "innovation badges" to vetted systems by September, as it pushes to get new technology into members' hands. #NATO
Pilot in a cockpit operating flight controls with touchscreen displays and avionics visible ahead of him to the blue sky outside the canopy.

How simulation is speeding up the RAF pilot pipeline

The Royal Air Force is increasingly relying on synthetic training technology to accelerate pilot development and reduce the number of training sorties that need to be repeated.
Large green mobile missile launcher with four missiles raised on a field under a cloudy sky.

RAF using inflatable SAM sites for pilot training

The Royal Air Force has introduced a new ground-based threat simulation capability using inflatable replica surface-to-air missile systems and electronic emitters to prepare combat pilots for modern air defence environments.

UK issues fresh medium range precision strike RFI

The Ministry of Defence has issued a fresh RFI for its Medium Range Precision Strike programme, with a June 2028 contract start date suggesting the original 2027 delivery target has slipped.

LAND NEWS

DSEI Germany lands top military advisors for 2027 debut

Germany's most senior retired military figures have backed the inaugural DSEI Germany exhibition as Berlin accelerates its push to lead the defence of Europe.

Royal Regiment of Scotland performs guard of honour

Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland performed the guard of honour for the opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Yellow maintenance locomotive on a London Underground platform at Charing Cross, with green wall tiles and passengers in the background.

British Army runs NATO corps HQ in London Tube station

Hundreds of British Army soldiers have been running a major NATO command post exercise from a disused platform at Charing Cross Underground Station in central London.

BAE Bofors completes acquisition of Swedish machining firm

BAE Systems Bofors has completed its acquisition of Aston Harald Mekaniska Verkstad AB, a Swedish precision mechanics and component machining specialist.
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New magazine launching to serve the UK veteran community

Civvy is a word every veteran knows instantly, and it's the word that the founders of a new quarterly magazine launching this month want to plant like a flag.

Features

Harland and Wolff's Belfast yard is undergoing a major overhaul under Navantia UK, with new steel-processing lines, upgraded facilities and workforce expansion aimed at supporting Fleet Solid Support and future naval construction.
We went behind the scenes at Thales UK’s optronics site in Glasgow, where the same people who build periscopes and sighting systems for the armed forces are also opening paths into engineering for young people across the city.

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