The UK currently has significant defence and security ties with the US, including the intelligence sharing Five Eyes agreement. American firms also maintain military equipment, including the F-35 ...

Announced by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 12 May, the event, which saw the first of the helicopters that were contracted to take on the training and support roles of the Airbus Puma HC2 at ...

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell. Tussell found that MOD expenditure with private contractors grew 31 ...

Britain should double its defence spending to respond to global threats, a former UK defence chief has suggested. Lord Stirrup, who served as head of the Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010 ...

The UK government is willing to pay for UK companies to gain access to EU defence spending programmes worth hundreds of billions of pounds. Defence Secretary John Healey told the BBC: "We are ...

The UK spent £53.9 billion on defence in the 2023/24 and the Government has committed to increases in the coming years. Former head of the Armed Forces Lord Stirrup is calling for rapidly ...

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed an investigation into First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Benjamin Key, 59, was “ongoing”. Sir Benjamin had reportedly been expected to retire this summer but it ...

Elements of Washington’s change in approach to Ukraine, Russia and NATO show why Canberra and London should also strengthen complementary partnerships and widen the circle of technical defence ...

Ministers have been keen to stress the boost to jobs and prosperity that plans to increase the UK’s defence spending to 2.5 per cent of economic output by 2027 could provide, as they desperately ...

I was there last month, and Ukrainian engineers are developing amazing new drones at pace. Their defence industry has gone into overdrive to engineer the kit that will help save them from the ...