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UK defence

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    King Mallory
    Forget 2 per cent — there is a better way to measure global security contributions

    Hammering countries about Nato’s target has not made the world a safer place

    María Hergueta illustration of the per cent sign as a slide, with one figure standing on top of it looking down at another standing at the bottom
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Ministry of Defence UK
    UK special forces had ‘golden pass’ to carry out killings in Afghanistan, inquiry hears

    Military operated under ‘code of silence’, according to testimonies from probe into suspected war crimes

    Silhouette of soldier firing rifle
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    News in-depthUK defence spending
    UK military budget must rise by 56%, Ministry of Defence calculations say

    Amount would far outstrip current 2.5% target and take annual spending above £90bn

    UK artillery in action during a Nato exercise in Finland
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    UK, Italy and Japan’s defence groups set up venture overseeing fighter jet project

    Company will be accountable for delivering next generation combat aircraft under Global Combat Air Programme

    A fighter jet flies over London
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Keir Starmer to hold talks with EU on defence co-operation

    British premier accepts invitation by bloc to discuss security matters in latest sign of improving relations

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer shakes hands with European Council president António Costa at Downing Street on Thursday
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    City should be more supportive of UK defence sector, says minister

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says banks and investors should shrug off ethical concerns about industry

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Nato
    Nato’s European members discuss 3% target for defence spending

    Increased military expenditure could be agreed at next year’s summit, intensifying pressure on national budgets

    Donald Trump and Mark Rutte
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    EU defence
    Europe races to set up €500bn defence fund

    Initiative is open to UK and would tap bond markets to boost spending for Trump’s White House return

    Live firing of the British Army’s new Archer Mobile Howitzer gun near Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle, Finland
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Nuclear proliferation
    World entering third nuclear age with few guardrails, UK military chief says

    Radakin warns ‘dangerous’ new era involves proliferating and disruptive technologies

    Admiral Sir Tony Radakin arrives at No 10 Downing Street for a cabinet meeting in London in 2022
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Military technology
    European AI specialist Helsing unveils attack drone

    Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems

    Helsing drones
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    UK industrial strategy
    UK to unveil plans for new defence industrial council

    Ministers want to deepen government links with tech companies and start-ups

    Defence Secretary John Healey visits RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    John Sawers
    Trump offers Britain a challenge on security

    There simply isn’t the depth of partnership even with France and Germany that we have in the Five Eyes network

    Montage image of UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer  and US president-elect Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Europe wants Britain back at the EU defence industry party Premium content

    Plus: Meet the probable head of the EU’s new fraud watchdog

    (L-R) French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and British Defence Secretary John Healey
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Candace Rondeaux
    Ukraine war pushes Europe into a race to build up its defence base

    The focus on industrial capacity is vital but change must come as fast as possible to make a difference to European security

    A man sits in the cockpit of a Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft at the BAE Systems exhibition space during the Farnborough Airshow in England
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Philip Stephens
    Britain’s national security demands more than a defence review

    As the international order cracks, the nation’s capabilities must adjust to a new world

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of Sir Keir Starmer carrying a huge bomb on his back with many pound sign tags hanging off it
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK military to scrap older warships and helicopters in £500mn savings drive

    Defence secretary blames changing nature of warfare for ‘difficult decisions’

    HMS Northumberland
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Inside Politics
    UK’s dual motive for higher defence spending raises problems

    Trump era means government has to navigate competing pressures, but it must solve its procurement woes first

    Ajax armoured vehicle
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Starmer green-lights multibillion-pound fighter jet with Italy and Japan

    Fate of joint Global Combat Air Programme had been in question under Labour’s strategic defence review

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Navantia seeks extra £300mn from UK to rescue Harland & Wolff

    Defence group wants boost in Navy contract as it plans to buy Titanic shipbuilder out of administration

    Harland & Wolff’s famous shipyard in Belfast
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Head of UK armed forces gains new powers in push to improve readiness for war

    Government launches biggest structural shake-up of Ministry of Defence in 50 years

    An Ajax Ares tank, an armoured personnel carrier, on the training range at Bovington Camp
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Rheinmetall AG
    Rheinmetall to make gun barrels in the UK as part of new defence pact

    Howitzer plan comes amid push by western nations to support Ukraine

    British Challenger tank
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    ObituaryMike Jackson
    General Sir Mike Jackson, 1944-2024

    Celebrated British soldier with varied and illustrious military career famed for clash with his Nato commander

    General Sir Mike Jackson
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK politics
    UK gives Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure military base

    Deal comes after 50 years of wrangling over the remote but strategically important archipelago

    Demonstrators from the Chagos Islands hold up flags in Port Louis, Mauritius, in 2019
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK public awareness of military threat is ‘alarmingly low’

    Lords committee says mooted boost in defence spending ‘may not be enough’

    British soldiers take part in a Nato training exercise in Estonia in May
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK sent Kyiv large supplies of old military equipment, watchdog finds

    Defence ministry dispatched kit ‘due to be scrapped or replaced’, according to National Audit Office

    Royal Anglian troops sort and prepare ballistic helmets for shipping to Ukraine in March 2022
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