Defence in the Media: 18 October 2016

...employment prospects. Like everyone who serves our country, under 18s – who can only sign up with formal written consent of a parent or guardian – are fully supported throughout...
...employment prospects. Like everyone who serves our country, under 18s – who can only sign up with formal written consent of a parent or guardian – are fully supported throughout...
...of Hurricane Maria and the purchase of Typhoon aircraft by Qatar. UK Canadian joint training BBC News and Sky News last night, as well as The Guardian this morning, report...
...Championships in Aldershot. Defence Secretary signs multi-billion pound Typhoon contract with Qatar There is further coverage of the deal for 24 Typhoon aircraft signed in Qatar yesterday, including in The...
Today’s Defence-related news includes a call for universities to do more to support ex-service personnel and the children of servicemen and women who have lost their lives during duty. Government...
...meets the 2% guideline, to aim to continue to do so. The UK also exceeds the NATO guideline to spend 20% of the defence budget on new equipment and along...
In Defence-related news, Radio 4’s Today programme included an interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General of NATO, who said that the West should step up support for Ukraine....
...Great news for Scotland, and great news for the Royal Navy: the second of three OPVs, HMS Medway will be a vital addition to our growing equipment bank. A versatile,...
...over £160 billion on our kit to keep Britain safe. That includes new strike fighters; more surveillance aircraft; hunter killer submarines; two aircraft carriers; and the most advanced armoured vehicles....
...new state of the art telescope facility capable of assessing orbital debris as small as 10cm, moving at speed of up to 10km per second (faster than a speeding bullet)....
...shut down. New technology is available and advances in other types of modelling and computational codes mean it is not necessary to set up future full-scale prototypes at this time...