Lib Dems want six more frigates and new shipyards

Three more Type 31 frigates, three more Type 26 frigates and four new shipyards should be funded through defence bonds and delivered by the mid-2030s to counter the threat from Russia.

Russia building new radar close to the Polish border

Construction of a new radar facility in Kaliningrad has been under way for some time and forms part of wider Russian investment in military capability that Britain and NATO allies are monitoring.

UK defence spending target of 3 percent by 2030

The Chancellor has set a target date of 2030 for British defence spending to reach three per cent of gross domestic product.

Britain told it can lead world in metamaterials

Britain can become a global leader in metamaterials if it acts now to turn its research into commercial products, and the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser has welcomed a new government...

BAE tests deck launcher that can reload at sea

BAE Systems has completed the first live firing of the Adaptable Deck Launcher, a missile launcher that can go on aircraft carriers, amphibious ships and other surface combatants.

Army to buy heavy wheeled recovery vehicle for Boxer

The Army will procure a Heavy Wheeled Recovery Vehicle to recover Boxer in the field, the order remains at 623 vehicles with more than five hundred being built in Britain.

Eleven of sixteen Protector drones now delivered

No decision on Palantir role in targeting network

Palantir products are used across the defence digital and data ecosystem and that is expected to continue in some form, but no decisions have been taken on parts of the Digital Targeting Web.

Geospatial intelligence contract goes to CGI

CGI has won a contract from the Ministry of Defence's National Armaments Director Group to provide technical and project support for PICASSO, the programme that develops and sustains Britain's...

Ice patrol ship will miss a second Antarctic season

HMS Protector will not deploy to Antarctica for the 2026/27 season, leaving Britain without an ice patrol ship in the South Atlantic for a second consecutive year while the government looks at how to...

Methil yard wins second export order and hires sixty

Navantia UK has won a second new vessel export contract for its Methil yard in Fife and is recruiting sixty skilled workers.

British submarine command course has not run for a year

The Submarine Command Course, known throughout the service as Perisher, is the qualifying course for command of a British submarine.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...