Defence in the Media: Saturday 28 July
Today’s defence related news includes coverage of a potential deal over post Brexit use of the Galileo satellite navigation system. UK Galileo deal after Brexit The Guardian (17) reports that...
Defence in the media: Monday 18 June 2018
...target. The Defence Secretary launched the Modernising Defence Programme to strengthen our Armed Forces in the face of intensifying threats and, while we welcome the Defence Committee’s preliminary report, we...
Defence in the Media: Wednesday 22 November 2017
Today’s defence in the media blog includes news on the continuing search for the Argentinian submarine and speculation on the UK's F-35 fighter jet programme.
Defence in the Media: 17 November 2017
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Defence in the media, Ministerial comment, Royal Navy
Defence news of note includes coverage of the Defence Secretary announcing HMS Queen Elizabeth's commissioning and heroic military dog Mali. Queen to commission namesake aircraft carrier in just three weeks Her Majesty the Queen will formally commission her namesake aircraft …
Defence in the Media: 4 September 2017
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Today’s Defence news includes coverage of an Armed Forces recruitment report, reporting on standard issue military footwear and the RAF photographer of the year competition.
Defence in the media: Sunday 16 July 2017
In today's defence related news there is further coverage of Op NORTHMOOR investigations of personnel in Afghanistan, reporting on The Sunday People's Save Our Soldiers campaign and speculation around the Type 26 programme.
Defence Secretary: Today marks our first budget increase in 6 years
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Equipment, Ministerial comment, Operations, Personnel
...face are growing in scale, complexity and concurrency. In a more dangerous world, we have chosen to use our hard-earned economic strength to give our Armed Forces what they need...
Breaking News: MOD response to Sunday Telegraph front page on legal claims against Armed Forces
...job. Ministers have commissioned detailed work on this and will make any further announcements in due course. Follow us on Twitter and don’t forget to sign up for email alerts....
Defence in the Media: 7 September 2015
...as an independent regulatory body – will scrap existing guidelines, which have been in place unchanged since 1968. The article says changes in the types of goods and services and...
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon speaks about yesterday’s budget announcements and outlines some of the key facts about what we spend on defence.
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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.