Defence Spending

...and so well that you can invest for the future. We’re building two aircraft carriers, seven Hunter-Killer submarines, there are new armoured vehicles on order for the army, we’re buying...
...and so well that you can invest for the future. We’re building two aircraft carriers, seven Hunter-Killer submarines, there are new armoured vehicles on order for the army, we’re buying...
...kind of specialised Research & Development the report recommends – but it is not a case of either/or. We are right to invest in our two new aircraft carriers, 7...
Splashing across all of this morning's papers is the news of multiple terror attacks carried out in Tunisia, France and Kuwait, as Islamist fanatics appear to respond to the ISIL's...
...Elizabeth, the next milestone will be when she starts her sea trials in 2017. By 2020, she will have the capacity to embark up to four helicopters and our new...
...a significant terrorism readiness exercise across London to prepare for an attack similar to that carried out in Tunisia. Tunisia terrorist attack Print outlets today including The Guardian and the...
...and that the Prime Minister is keen to explore whether the new Parliament would reconsider this as part of the pledged “full spectrum” response against ISIL. You can listen to...
...a Royal Air Force C17. Also making the news today: Iran has signalled that it is ready to help the rest of the world to tackle ISIL if a deal...
The US-led coalition's airstrikes on Raqqa in Syria feature in today's Defence news, as do reports that the militant group ISIL have executed Syrian soldiers in Palmyra. ISIL The Times...
Yesterday’s budget saw two very significant pledges by this government on defence. Firstly, the Chancellor announced that defence spending will rise each year until 2020/21. Secondly, he confirmed that Britain...
...celebrated - and rightly so - but the engineering element was also a significant aspect. In a very short time period, military personnel had cleared six sites of jungle and...