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    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      UK defence chiefs seek funding increase to confront rising threats

      Military has to replenish weapons stockpile and procure new equipment

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Aerospace & Defence
      UK, Japan and Italy agree to build joint advanced fighter jet

      Trilateral military project aimed at an increasingly assertive China and other threats

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      BAE Systems PLC
      BAE Systems bullish as defence spending rises

      Europe’s largest defence contractor in talks to ramp up production of key artillery used in Ukraine

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      Sunak quiet on defence budget as he signs off on £4.2bn frigate contract

      PM refuses to be drawn on matching Truss’s promise of big boost to military spending

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Truss to launch defence review as she calls for Russian reparations

      Invasion of Ukraine drives rethink just 18 months after conclusion of last process

    • Monday, 19 September, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK to spend at least £2.3bn on Ukraine war effort in 2023

      Liz Truss will make commitment in her first speech to the UN General Assembly as prime minister

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Sebastian Payne
      Tory rivals should spend less and reform creaking Britain more

      They risk a general election like 1979, when voters look at who has been in charge and ask why nothing works

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      UK ministers ‘arrogant and unwilling to learn’ on military strategy

      MPs warn armed forces face capability gap and Ukraine shows mistake in cutting heavy armour

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      RAF Typhoons to get new radar as part of £2.35bn upgrade

      Retrofit programme will give key UK combat aircraft new ‘electronic attack’ capabilities and extend its service life into the 2040s

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      Is the west’s increased defence spending even necessary?

      Every day, Putin is depleting his army against a non-Nato country, burning his assets like a narcissist-run start-up

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      UK defence secretary urges boost to military spending

      Ben Wallace wants ‘peace dividend’ invested as head of army condemns ‘brutal aggression’ in Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Russian menace brings abrupt end to the west’s ‘peace dividend’

      In a reversal of the post-cold war era, Putin’s attack on Ukraine prompts Nato members to spend more on defence

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      UK defence industry
      BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce win £2bn UK nuclear deterrent contracts

      Move to push ahead with programme to build new submarines comes amid heightened tensions over Ukraine war

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      UK to provide £300mn of further military aid to Ukraine

      Boris Johnson due to address Kyiv’s parliament amid cabinet tensions over defence spending

    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
      News in-depth
      Does the UK need to change its defence strategy after the Ukraine war?

      With the number of soldiers at the lowest level since the 18th century, questions are being asked about the weakness of the army

    • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
      Spring Statement
      Sunak resists rise in defence spending despite war in Ukraine

      Chancellor warns ministers that days of higher UK public spending are over

    • Friday, 11 March, 2022
      Army UK
      UK’s troubled new armoured vehicle puts army overhaul at risk

      NAO report says forces may have to soldier on with ageing equipment beyond 2025

    • Monday, 21 February, 2022
      UK risks spending more on defence equipment than it can afford, warns watchdog

      National Audit Office highlights MoD’s over-optimistic assumptions about costs and savings

    • Monday, 7 February, 2022
      UK privatisation
      Guy Hands/MoD: Terra Firma caught in quicksand of ministerial regret Premium content

      UK government’s move to unwind Annington Homes deal appears to be seller’s remorse

    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      UK privatisation
      Annington Homes offers £105mn to settle MoD housing estates claim

      Guy Hands’ company threatens legal action if UK government fails to drop its litigation

    • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
      UK privatisation
      UK seeks to unwind £7.6bn housing deal with Guy Hands’ Annington Homes

      Ministry of Defence wants to take back ownership of tens of thousands of properties sold off in 1996

    • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
      Army UK
      ‘Serious failings’ in British army’s Ajax tank programme, review finds

      Report also reveals ‘deep malaise’ in UK government’s defence procurement culture

    • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      British armoured division returns to Germany amid Ukraine tensions

      About-turn just over a year since UK pulled out in move designed to help bolster Nato

    • Monday, 22 November, 2021
      Leonardo raises investment pledges in push for UK helicopter deal

      Italian group touts £1bn spending programme if it wins tender to replace Puma fleet

    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      Poor UK military procurement repeatedly wastes billions, MPs say

      Spending watchdog claims the MoD ‘continually fails to learn from its mistakes’

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