Defence in the Media: 13 February 2016
Today’s defence news covers Syria peace talks in Munich and Maritime patrol aircraft.
Today’s defence news covers Syria peace talks in Munich and Maritime patrol aircraft.
Views on legal claims facing the Armed Forces and issues with the Royal Navy’s Type 45 Destroyers feature in today’s defence news summary. ARMED FORCES The Daily Telegraph leads today on an interview with the head of the British Army, General …
Today’s defence news covers new senior Armed Forces appointments, Type 45 engineering issues and the military's music tradition. Senior Armed Forces Appointments Following speculation in The Times and The Sun about new senior appointments in the Armed Forces. The Defence Secretary …
The Royal Navy has been named in the UK’s top 10 gay-friendly employers by Stonewall, just 16 years after LGB personnel were allowed to serve openly in the military.
Of note in Defence news today is further reporting on the Iraq Historical Allegations Team, and coverage on a Royal Navy Police investigation. IHAT The Sun reports on its front page the case of an anonymous British soldier who the paper suggests is …
As we move into 2016, the Minister for the Armed Forces, Penny Mordaunt, thanks the men and women of the Armed Forces who have assisted with the emergency response to flooding over December.
There is further coverage of former Army Air Corps Major Tim Peake’s mission to the International Space Station as HMS Defender meets up with the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on operations against Daesh.
Broadcasters and nearly all of the front pages focus on the Prime Minister’s announcement last night that there will be a vote on extending airstrikes to Syria on Wednesday. There are also reports on HMS Richmond's drugs seizure in the …
Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel based in the Falkland Islands have conducted a long range rescue of a British man from a Russian cruise ship.
Coverage this morning continues of the Russian jet shot down by Turkey near the Syrian border.