Defence

Australian officials said AUKUS will cost up to $245 billion and create 20,000 jobs. It comes as China rapidly builds up its own military.

The act of sending a wide variety of weapons to Ukraine is putting the British army at risk should donated armaments not be sufficiently replaced, the Labour Party has warned.

Germany is readying decades-old armored personnel carriers for a key NATO unit after their modern replacements suffered a mass breakdown.

Japan announced it will jointly develop its next-generation fighter jet with the UK & Italy as it looks to expand cooperation beyond the U.S.

After claims China is recruiting former UK combat pilots through a company in South Africa, attention is turning to Navy and Army veterans.

Despite having long left the European Union, Brussels appears to now be scheming about bringing the UK back into the bloc’s military ambitions by integrating the country into a common defence framework.

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been denounced by a former British ambassador to France for talking up a military alliance with post-Brexit Britain.

Military and civilian satellites destroyed by enemy forces will be replaced next day, rather than months later, under the plan

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has praised the foundation of the new British, American, and Australian defence and security alliance, calling it a “big moment for the Anglosphere”.

Joe Biden’s first NATO summit has concluded, with members welcoming a “new chapter” in relations that resembles the pre-Trump status quo. 

The head of the Royal Air Force says he thinks that Britain should go Net Zero ten years earlier than planned because ‘our public demands it.’

The carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth set off for a two-week exercise in preparation for a 28-week deployment.

Greece is due to sign a 2.3 billion-euro deal with France on Monday to purchase 18 Rafale fighter jets as tensions grow with neighbor Turkey.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the UK is “fully committed” to NATO, but warns that peace cannot be taken for granted.

Senior officers in the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force have warned that the United Kingdom is being entangled in the European Union’s military integration schemes, and that the Prime Minister’s proposed Brexit deal with the bloc will undermine national security long into the future.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the suggestion by her anointed successor to pursue a joint European aircraft carrier, a major symbol of military capability only operated by a handful of nations worldwide.

Having already admitted it would fail to meet the two per cent of GDP spent on defence it promised in 2014, Germany is now set to likely miss even its reduced target in news that will doubtless do nothing to ease tensions between Chancellor Merkel and U.S. President Trump, who is pushing for fellow NATO members to pull their own weight. 

German Yellow Vest activists protested Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel signing a treaty which aims to bring together the economic and defence policies of France and Germany in a prototype “Sovereign Europe”.

Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron are set to deepen their ties by signing a “twinning” treaty this month which has been criticised as an “erosion” of national sovereignty.

The Armed Forces of the United Kingdom have become mired in identity politics, with the British Army bragging that it is winning the “race for diversity” against the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated calls for a European Union army, this time saying that it is needed to protect the bloc from China, Russia, and even the United States.

French president Emmanuel Macron was left fuming after the Belgian government announced it would replace its ageing fleet of F-16s with British-American F-35s rather than Eurofighters or French Rafales.

Plans to maintain the size of the British fleet by replacing retiring warships with newly built ones appear to have stalled after the Ministry of Defence suspended the procurement process for a new generation of Frigates.

British defence giant BAE Systems has beaten Italian and Spanish rivals to win a £20 billion contract to design and build frigates for the Australian navy, in one of the biggest post-Brexit boosts yet.

The United Kingdom government is coming under pressure to increase defence spending from the United States, in revelations that come days after President Donald J. Trump vented frustration over the NATO military alliance and Trump Ambassador Rick Grenell revealed that moving European nations to contribute more to their own defence was a key priority for the administration.

BERLIN, Germany: Tackling NATO nations failing to meet their alliance obligations is a key priority for President Trump, his right-hand-man in Europe has revealed in major and unprecedented remarks on the credibility of the military of the European Union’s largest economy.

A military analyst has criticised EU leaders for failing to accept that “the Western world is at war” and warned that Europe will see worse terror attacks committed by Islamic extremists.

WARSAW (AFP) – Poland and Britain signed a new defence treaty on Thursday as Prime Minister Theresa May sought to deepen ties with Warsaw ahead of her country’s exit from the EU by March 2019.

An Irish MEP was seized by police officers and bundled down the street after trying to attend a secretive meeting between the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security and arms industry lobbyists, concerning its new military integration plans.

European Union loyalists have repeatedly denied EU plans for defence and military integration since 2014.

Brexit-supporting veterans have blamed EU rules on competition and tendering for the Government’s decision to open naval contracts to foreign shipbuilders.

Forces veterans have come forward to denounce the Tory Government for offering to integrate Britain into the Defence apparatus of the European Union on terms “closer than a third country” after Brexit.

President Macron has made major spending promises after military chief General Pierre de Villiers resigned over cutbacks.

Steel firms and veterans groups have expressed disbelief at the decision to construct the Royal Navy’s new Type 26 frigates using steel sourced mainly from the EU.

Some 5,000 troops from NATO and partner countries are staging exercises in Romania watched by a senior NATO official and Romania’s president

Admiral Lord West, one of Britain’s most senior naval veterans, warns Britain faces becoming a “laughing stock” after Brexit, with a depleted Royal Navy unable to protect its reclaimed fishing grounds from marauding European vessels. Within the EU, the country’s