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On the year anniversary of the recommendations made by Sarah Atherton MP in her report, defence looks back at the measures introduced.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
The UK will donate hundreds more air defence missiles to Ukraine, including AMRAAM rockets which are capable of shooting down cruise missiles.
RAF participates in large-scale air exercise in Australia for the first time since the Covid pandemic.
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) confirms new investment that will increase scalable protection options for the UK’s armoured land vehicles.
British troops have taken part in Exercise Vigilant Knife alongside Swedish and Finnish Armed Forces.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The new funding builds on longstanding UK support to the Somali Security Forces
She becomes the first female British Army officer to hold the rank of Lieutenant General and occupy this prestigious role.
Around 150 British Army and Royal Air force personnel have deployed to Finland alongside US and Finnish armed forces for Exercise Vigilant Fox.
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Havrylov and UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey met Ukrainian sailors being trained by the Royal Navy in Scotland and visited infantry training by the Army in England.
HMS Montrose seized dozens of packages containing advanced weaponry, including surface-to-air-missiles and engines for land attack cruise missiles.
The UK and Lebanon are close friends and partners. The military cooperation between our two countries that has spanned more than a decade.
Ambassador Ian Collard was briefed on UNIFIL’s crucial work especially along the Blue Line, and the challenges faced at the current time.
More than 2,000 members of the British Army’s Global Response Force have demonstrated their ability to react to global crises during an exercise with NATO allies.
Minister Heappey gave the keynote Sir Henry Leach memorial lecture at the IISS First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference 2022.
Around 8,000 British Army troops will conduct a series of planned exercises across Europe this summer in one of the largest deployments since the Cold War.
The UK will partner with Estonia on the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) programme to maintain NATO’s technological edge
Rover Defender vehicles form the backbone of the LAF’s mobility the spare parts will keep the LAF’s Land Rovers on the front line for the foreseeable future.
Typhoon jets and Royal Air Force personnel are deploying to Romania to join the long-standing NATO Air Policing mission for the Black Sea region.
Six Royal Navy ships and 2,000 UK personnel have joined vessels and troops from 26 other nations for Exercise Cold Response off the shores of Norway
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