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News story: New Navy ship named in Glasgow
The naming continues an association between the Royal Navy and the River Medway which, as home to the Chatham Historic Dockyard, has existed since Elizabethan times. The second of the Royal Navy’s OPVs, HMS Medway is the tenth vessel to bear the name since the 1690s.
She was named by...Read More »
News story: F-35 jet and new batch of UK pilots cleared for Carrier take-off, Defence Minister tells Select Committee
A new group of UK pilots are trained and ready to fly the UK’s cutting-edge F-35 fighter jet which is now cleared for take-off from HMS Queen Elizabeth following successful trials using the ski-ramp design featured on the UK flagship, Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin announced at the House of...Read More »
News story: Two World War 1 soldiers have finally been identified a century later
Rededication services for 2 fallen World War 1 soldiers have been held today (Tuesday 17 October 2017) in Ypres, Belgium. The first for Rifleman William Dickson Evans of The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) at Blauwepoort Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. The second for Private John Anderson of the 4th...Read More »
UK return for Red Arrows after 11-country overseas tour
AFTER
8,000 miles, jets from the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team have returned home
from an overseas tour promoting the best of British.
The
Red Arrows’ distinctive Hawk aircraft arrived at the team’s base of RAF
Scampton, Lincolnshire, earlier today (Saturday).
Eleven
countries were visited in five weeks, with the world-renowned...Read More »
News story: Mini drones set to investigate hazardous scenes, announces Defence Secretary
As part of a collaboration between the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office, the Defence Secretary has awarded funding to a range of small-and-medium-sized-enterprises (SMEs) with high-tech concepts to assess potentially hazardous scenes.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said:
With intensifying threats abroad and the risk of accidents at...Read More »