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Denmark’s P-8 Buy Shows Boeing Is Winning Europe’s Submarine-Hunting North

Denmark is buying Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, joining a northern group of NATO allies that are standardising around the same American submarine-hunting jet as Russia’s undersea threat returns to the centre of European defence planning. Copenhagen said on Tuesday it would acquire two P-8As from Boeing to strengthen surveillance around Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Danish waters. The decision follows a US State Department approval in December for a possible sale of up to thr

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Jul 7, 2026 — 4 min read

Rolls-Royce Breaks Ground on Derby Reactor Site to Power AUKUS Submarines

Rolls-Royce Submarines broke ground on Friday on a new manufacturing facility in Derby that will more than double the size of its reactor site, expanding capacity to build nuclear propulsion units for the Royal Navy and Australia's future attack submarines under the AUKUS pact. The work at the Raynesway site will add more than 100,000 square metres of manufacturing and office space and create 1,170 skilled jobs, the company said. It forms part of a plan first announced in June 2023 to double th

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Jul 3, 2026 — 3 min read

US Weapons Take More Than 12 Years to Field Despite Pentagon Speed Push

The Pentagon is taking longer than ever to put its most expensive weapons into service, with the average time to field a new capability now exceeding 12 years, according to a congressional watchdog report that casts doubt on repeated pledges to speed up delivery. The US Government Accountability Office, in its 24th annual assessment of major weapons programmes published on 2 July, examined 104 of the Department of War's costliest efforts, a portfolio the department plans to spend more than $2.4

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Jul 3, 2026 — 3 min read

New Pentagon Drone ‘Czar’ to Close Gap With US Rivals

The United States has consolidated oversight of almost all of its military drone and autonomous-systems programmes under a single new office, as the Pentagon races to close a fielding gap with rivals it now openly concedes are producing unmanned weapons at far greater speed. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum, dated 29 June and released on Wednesday, establishing the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems, known as the DRPM-UxS. The office will report directly

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Jul 2, 2026 — 3 min read

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. The Defence Investment Plan, published on Tuesday after a delay of more than a year, will raise annual defence spending from £54 billion to almost £80 billion by 2029, taking it to 2.7% of economic

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Jun 30, 2026 — 3 min read

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 it had conducted a live-fire sinking exercise north of the Mariana Islands in which a B-2 fired the Lockheed Martin AGM-158C LRASM at a surface target. The drill formed part of Exercise Valiant Shield 2026, with the

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Jun 30, 2026 — 3 min read

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 six Common Combat Vessels to replace its six ageing Type 45 air-defence destroyers, with the first ships expected from the early 2030s, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday. The decision shelves earlier p

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Jun 29, 2026 — 3 min read

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 deployed to RAAF Base Darwin this month for its first operational test and evaluation flights, the Department of Defence said. The missions resemble the maritime patrols flown by the air for

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Jun 28, 2026 — 2 min read