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 ...

Move over Commando Logistic Regiment… come on down 48 Commando Support Group, was the message from the Royal Marines’ High Command in August. Defence Eye must own up to having missed this one during ...

Safety inspections are still being carried out into the RAF’s fleet of BAE Systems Hawk T2 advanced jet trainers after a crash in September which led to the aircraft being grounded. Two weeks later ...

A pair of Royal Air Force Beechcraft Shadow R1 has been deployed to Jordan in a new mission for the twin turboprop surveillance aircraft. Open-source aircraft tracking revealed that two aircraft of 14 ...

Mobile Fires – Slowly, Slowly, Or At Pace? Francis Tusa - 13 February 2026 Are we seeing an acceleration of the British Army’s Mobile Fires programme with Defence Readiness and Industry Minister Luke ...

Treasury competition rules that prevented defence ministers giving preference to British made productions have been dumped by Prime Minister Andy Burham and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey.

A round of investment offers is to be made by the Ministry of Defence before Christmas in a bid to attract City of London money to fund infrastructure projects, including submarine dismantling, ...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham was quick to offer military support to Saudi Arabia early last week, announcing that a Royal Air Force Airbus A330 Voyager tanker aircraft would provide air-to-air ...

Britain’s Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II base at RAF Marham has received equipment to better connect it to the global computer network that organises logistic support for the jump jets. Royal Air ...

Work to protect RAF Eurofighter Typhoon jets based at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus from Iranian drone and missile attacks will not be complete until next Easter. The strategic base came under drone attack ...