Deliveries of Ajax armoured vehicles to the British Army are running at almost half their planned rate, with just over 200 ...

We’ve seen Army 2020, Army 2021, Army 2025, and then Army 2030 – and there might well have been even more such plans – with ...

Costs to repair damage caused to the Astute-class nuclear powered attack submarine HMS Achilles could escalate above the ...

Ministry of Defence spending plans are still in flux with the budget allocation after next April yet to be made, according to ...

When is a carrier strike group a sovereign capability? Can it be both “sovereign” and “international”? Shadow Defence Spokesman Ben Obese-Jecty put that issue to the Ministry of Defence in a ...

A few weeks back, Defence Eye reported on a Written Parliamentary Answer that spoke about the upgrading of RAF airbase runways. That answer ( stated that 16 runways across the UK were up for ...

Just as we thought the Defence Investment Plan, or DIP, was over and done with, it appears that it had morphed into a new ...

Availability issues with its Astute-class nuclear powered attack boats have forced the Royal Navy to tun to allies to help it keep training its future submarine commanding officers. Senior naval ...

Sad News from Saint Andrews Tim Ripley - 26 February 2026 Defence Eye was disappointed to hear that our long-time colleague and friend, Lady Alex Walmsley, was not successful in her bid to become ...

The price tag for the Royal Navy’s seven nuclear-powered Astute-class attack submarines has soared by £1bn over the past year, taking the whole programme costs to more than £12bn. Details of the cost ...

Britain is negotiating to buy a fleet of new signals/electronic intelligence (SIGINT/ELINT) gathering aircraft from the German defence electronics company Hensoldt, under the auspices of the Trinity ...