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UK Adds £15 Billion to Defence Budget, Still Lags NATO Allies

UK Adds £15 Billion to Defence Budget, Still Lags NATO Allies

The UK pledged an additional £15 billion for its armed forces and lifted planned defence spending to almost £300 billion over four years, in a package delivered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer that fell short of the increase military chiefs had demanded and left Britain trailing its main NATO allies.

US Reveals Its Stealth Bomber Can Sink Ships in Warning to China

US Reveals Its Stealth Bomber Can Sink Ships in Warning to China

The US Air Force has disclosed for the first time that its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber can launch the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, revealing a penetrating maritime-strike capability designed to hold China's expanding navy at risk. Pacific Air Forces announced on Monday, 29 June, that

US-Italy Military Ties Deepen Even as the Trump-Meloni Feud Sours the Alliance

US-Italy Military Ties Deepen Even as the Trump-Meloni Feud Sours the Alliance

When President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrive in Ankara next week for the NATO summit on 7-8 July, it will be the first time they have shared a room since their relationship dissolved into public insult. The optics will be studied closely. Yet the more revealing

Japan's Mogami vs UK Type 31: The Frigate Battle for New Zealand

Japan's Mogami vs UK Type 31: The Frigate Battle for New Zealand

UK Scraps Destroyer Plan for Hybrid Drone Warships in Naval Overhaul

UK Scraps Destroyer Plan for Hybrid Drone Warships in Naval Overhaul

Britain will build at least six new warships designed to command fleets of drones across the air, surface and seabed, moving away from earlier plans for a next-generation destroyer in favour of a “hybrid” navy built around crewed and uncrewed systems. The Royal Navy will procure a minimum of

China-Russia Bombers Patrol Sea of Japan Again as Joint Missions Become Routine

China-Russia Bombers Patrol Sea of Japan Again as Joint Missions Become Routine

The 11th joint strategic air patrol flown by China and Russia on June 27, over waters near Japan and South Korea, will read to many in the region as just another entry in a lengthening logbook. That sense of routine is the point. What began in 2019 as a single,

Australia's New Spy Jet Patrols Northern Waters as China Pushes South

Australia's New Spy Jet Patrols Northern Waters as China Pushes South

Australia has begun flying its newest surveillance and electronic-warfare aircraft from the country's north, widening its ability to track Chinese military movements through its maritime approaches as Beijing sends its navy further south. An MC-55A Peregrine from the Royal Australian Air Force's 10 Squadron