Ministry of Defence

Aircraft inside current anti-jamming facility. Credit: Qinetiq The facility will provide a key capability to develop UK assets that can perform in the harshest electromagnetic environments on operations.  Under the new £20 million contract, QinetiQ will build a radio frequency, anti-jamming test facility at the Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down site in Wiltshire.   The ‘silent hangar’ will be … Read more

HMS Duncan leaves Portsmouth Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan has deployed from Portsmouth today to the Red Sea. The Type 45 destroyer will relieve its sister ship HMS Diamond, which has been protecting shipping lanes in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks since before Christmas. HMS Duncan is a like-for-like replacement for Diamond – armed … Read more

A Royal Air Force Typhoon departs on a mission supporting Operation Shader in support of the Counter-Daesh operations in Iraq and Syria. Crown Copyright. Summary Sunday 21 April 2024 – RAF Typhoons struck a rocket launcher in northwest Iraq. Detail On the evening of Sunday 21 April, a pair of Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s, … Read more

Today’s necessary and proportionate strikes specifically targeted 18 Houthi targets across 8 locations in Yemen associated with Houthi underground weapons storage facilities, missile storage facilities, one-way attack unmanned aerial systems, air defense systems, radars, and a helicopter. These precision strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the capabilities that the Houthis use to threaten global … Read more

500 support trucks will be delivered to the British Army in 2024 to support operational activity, following a rapid procurement process. Collaboration between Defence Equipment & Support, Army Headquarters and the Field Army has helped push the boundaries of Defence procurement, acquiring all the vehicles in just 7 months. Under a £282 million contract, Rheinmetall … Read more

New space capability programme to improve global security. Cawdor Barracks in Wales identified as preferred UK site, conditional on Environmental Impact Assessment and Town planning approval. All three global radar sites to be operational by the end of the decade. A new landmark radar initiative with the UK’s closest partners will increase UK security by … Read more

UK MOD © Crown copyright 2023 Defence Secretary Grant Shapps travelled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this week to drive forward work to maintain regional stability, protect civilians and strengthen the UK’s defence partnerships. He met with leaders in both countries as part of the UK’s coordinated diplomatic efforts … Read more

The Minister for the Armed Forces James Heappey visited Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia this week to meet with defence leaders and military chiefs, for talks to deepen security and defence cooperation. In Kazakhstan on Tuesday, he met with officials including Deputy Foreign Minister Roman Vassilenko, Deputy Defence Minister Lieutenant General Sultan Burkutbayevich Kamaletdinov and members … Read more

The UK has delivered its 300,000th artillery shell to Ukraine, and has committed to delivering tens of thousands more this year. Comes as the Defence Secretary and Chief of the Defence Staff joined representatives from 50 nations to urge further support. The Defence Secretary outlined the UK’s priority areas of military support for the coming … Read more

Location: Defence and Security Equipment International ,London Delivered on: 13 September 2023 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) It’s a huge pleasure and a privilege to be with you, in order to just give you some context from NATO, as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, about how NATO is changing … Read more