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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Cost of UK’s new fleet of armed drones jumps 40%

      First of 16 US-made Protector aircraft will enter service late next year as price rises to £1.8bn

      A Protector aircraft taking off from RAF Waddington
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      British army’s £3.2bn battlefield radio ‘next procurement disaster’

      Defence ministry says it is reviewing progress on contract but remains committed to system having already spent £690mn

    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      Harlan Ullman
      Britain’s armed forces must adapt radically to meet future threats

      War in Europe should focus minds on the need for a more agile and potent fighting force

      Soldiers training wearing camouflage fatigues and helmets
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      UK economy
      UK ministers plan task force to plug nuclear skills gap

      Tens of thousands of workers needed to deliver on new power stations and submarines

      EDF’s Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk, UK
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Global InsightLeila Abboud
      Macron’s ‘bonsai army’ needs more money to grow

      France plans to boost defence spending by 40% but will not get many new capabilities

      Emmanuel Macron and Thierry Burkhard stand in the command car as they arrive on the Champs Elysee during the annual Bastille Day military parade
    • Monday, 17 July, 2023
      UK to boost ammunition stockpiles by £2.5bn

      Revamped defence review aims to increase deadliness and agility of Britain’s armed forces

      An Ajax Ares tank, an armoured personnel carrier
    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      UK military procurement system comes under fire from MPs

      Parliamentary report highlights failings two days before Ministry of Defence is due to publish its latest strategy

    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Defence secretary calls for greater share of UK spending on military

      Wallace comments come ahead of publication of plan to reshape armed forces in wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

      Defence secretary Ben Wallace in the Commons
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      UK defence
      UK military is struggling to recruit tech experts, says report

      Government-commissioned inquiry warns Britain’s ability to win on the modern battlefield is at stake

      Soldiers from the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment test out virtual reality equipment in Chester
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      ‘Systemic’ procurement problems led to UK armoured vehicles fiasco

      Report into troubled £5.5bn Ajax programme identifies failings in the Ministry of Defence

      An Ajax Ares armoured vehicle on a training exercise in Dorset
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      News in-depthAerospace & Defence
      The age-old question: how do governments pay for wars?

      Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to a sharp rise in defence spending

      Military vessels sail in Sagami Bay during the “International Fleet Review”
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      UK defence
      UK defence secretary warns of threat of wider global conflict by end of decade

      Ben Wallace urges firm timetable for increasing military spending to 2.5% of GDP

      UK defence secretary Ben Wallace and Commandant Zachary Stenning watch cadets in training during a visit to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire, UK
    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      News in-depthUK defence
      Allies keep close watch on British plans to reshape armed forces

      Russian aggression and Chinese threat pose dilemma for cash-strapped, midsized military power seeking to retain global role

      The British army’s Challenger tanks
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Janan Ganesh
      Western voters won’t give up the peace dividend

      Governments are right to increase defence spending, but their electorates prefer butter to guns

      A protester kicks a tear gas canister in front of the Palais Garnier building during a rally in Paris
    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      UK resumes payments for army’s troubled Ajax programme

      Defence secretary says progress made on long-delayed £5.5bn armoured vehicle procurement

      An Ajax Ares armoured vehicle
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      UK defence ministry to receive extra £6bn over next five years

      Budget allocation comes on top of £5bn for next two years promised by Rishi Sunak

      British Army paratroopers in training on Salisbury Plain
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Sunak adopts European mainstream with fresh language on defence

      Integrated review highlights end of ‘peace dividend’, as extra cash for defence will have to come from other public services

      French president Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s prime minister Rishi Sunak attend a joint news conference in Paris
    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      UK warns China poses ‘epoch-defining challenge’ to world order

      Government’s updated integrated review of foreign and defence policy lists Russia as the most immediate challenge

      Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant
    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      Sunak promises to ‘fortify’ Britain against Russia and China

      Extra £5bn boost to military spending included in update to UK defence and foreign policy

      Rishi Sunak boards a flight at Stansted airport on Sunday
    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Failure to sustain defence spending would imperil Nato pledge, MPs warn

      British army’s capacity to deploy effective force to mainland Europe questioned in parliamentary report

      Ben Wallace at Bovington Camp, Dorset
    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      British army’s troubled Ajax armoured vehicle back on track

      Defence secretary says long-delayed £5.5bn programme has ‘turned a corner’ and deliveries could start in 18 months

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      UK politics
      UK defence secretary braced for ‘uphill battle’ with Treasury on military spend

      Ben Wallace to argue for extra funding ‘because the world is much more dangerous and unstable’

      UK defence secretary Ben Wallace
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      UK armed forces would last just ‘five days’ in a war, senior MP warns

      Tory chair of defence committee says cost of replacing kit sent to Ukraine and high inflation had created ‘a really grim picture’

      Soldiers of the Royal Anglian Regiment on a training exercise with a Foxhound protected patrol vehicle on Salisbury Plain
    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
      Military briefing: how the UK took a vanguard role on arms for Ukraine

      British leaders have been feted in Kyiv for their role in galvanising allies to provide weapons

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Rishi Sunak at Lulworth
    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Britain set to resume payments for army’s troubled armoured vehicle programme

      General Dynamics says it is owed $1.7bn for long-delayed Ajax contract

      Photo of the Ajax — the British Army’s new multi-role, fully-digitised armoured fighting vehicle
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