The release of a new UK national industrial strategy includes defence at one of eight areas to boost growth.

The Royal Navy is building 12 new SSN-AUKUS attack submarines, which are set to replace the UK's Astute class attack subs by the 2030s.

Top trade bodies for Britain's financial services and defence industries met on Wednesday to craft a wishlist of policy reforms they say could drive more debt finance and equity capital towards ...

The UK is moving forward with plans to deploy its new DragonFire laser weapon on warships. Lasers could offer a cheap defense against aerial threats.

Britain’s populist, anti-immigration party Reform UK has beaten Labour by a tiny margin in a by-election, dealing the government a mid-term setback and ruffling the country’s historically ...

Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves said she wanted the country to become a "defence industrial superpower" as she pumped an extra 2.2 billion pounds ($2.8 billion) into the sector in her ...

The British Army has neutralised swarms of drones with the “RapidDestroyer” — a new defence tech weapon that uses high-frequency microwaves.

The UK government has published its eagerly-awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR), but provided only limited detail about many key future investment decisions.

The UK Ministry of Defence could be poised to publish the findings of its eagerly awaited Strategic Defence Review activity by early June, according to one of the report's key contributors.

It may be tempting to dismiss social media’s role in the UK riots as merely a reflection of latent political trends or the result of activism that would have happened on other platforms anyway.

The UK does have the “right conditions” to become a leader in defence AI development, said the committee. It has the third largest number of AI firms worldwide, according to a January 2024 ...