UK Ministry of Defense

By Tony Osborne
A new government is pivoting its defense priorities and realigning relations with Europe.
GASCC & RIAT

By Tony Osborne
With just three weeks left before the UK’s general election, Britain’s two main political parties have laid out their vision for defense in their manifestos.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Project Ealing is able to detect, track and engage UAS threats up to 1 km (half a mile) away, and work is ongoing to boost its range, the UK MOD says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Ninety organizations have won a place on the UK’s Hypersonic Technologies & Capability Development Framework as part of efforts to develop native hypersonics.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
A planned fleet of new medium rotorcraft for the UK armed services has been cut in size by a third, industry officials have revealed to lawmakers.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
UK technologies that could enable autonomous collaborative platforms (ACP) to work with crewed combat aircraft have been demonstrated.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to raise UK defense spending to the equivalent of 2.5% of GDP.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Craig Caffrey
Labour has now joined the Conservatives in pledging to raise defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, but woolly caveats and an impending election leave doubts.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Tony Osborne
The UK Defense Ministry is to accelerate the development of the DragonFire laser weapon system for installation and operation on British warships.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
British lawmakers are challenging the government to increase defense spending, but the issue does not appear to be a public priority.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Ministers Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Tom Tugendhat say that while defense spending of rivals is rising rapidly, that of the UK has only risen by 28% recently.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The use of uncrewed systems by Ukraine is inspiring nations including the UK to make major investments in drone capabilities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The UK is set to upgrade the Sea Viper air defense system that equips its Type 45 destroyers to enable improved capabilities against ballistic missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne, Brian Everstine
The U.S. military says the Jan. 11 barrage of air strikes targeting Houthi forces inside Yemen has inhibited the group’s ability to conduct complex attacks.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Yemen’s Houthi movement could face military action after ignoring warnings from international governments over ongoing drone and missile attacks.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The UK Defense Ministry says Cawdor Barracks, formerly a U.K. Royal Air Force flight training base, has been named as the preferred DARC site.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK is to install a telescope on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to improve British space domain awareness capabilities.
Space

By Tony Osborne
A notice issued by the Defense Ministry says the UK is ordering six Airbus H145 Jupiter helicopters along with three years of support services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The UK has issued a new policy framework for its pursuit of a positioning, navigation and timing framework to guard against an outage during an emergency.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
London has introduced new laws after former UK military pilots were found to have been providing training to China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters has revealed a model of what it calls a “mature concept” of the 2-3-metric-ton rotary-wing UAS demonstrator, which the OEM hopes to fly in 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A notice to industry released by the UK Defense Ministry says it wants to focus on developing laser weapons for both maritime and ground-based air defense.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK government has named Grant Shapps as Secretary of State for Defense after the departure of Ben Wallace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
New research shows evidence of Russia's indigenous manufacture of Iran’s Shahed one-way attack uncrewed air systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Angus Batey
The UK Defense Ministry signs an RTX contract extension for 1,000 Landshield anti-jamming antennas.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare