2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1299+ words) The Chancellor said the package amounted to "more money for UK defence, spent more effectively," and that it had been funded by reprioritising public spending within the government's fiscal rules and, she said, without taking resources from day-to-day spending on…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1027+ words) UK Defence Journal A Glasgow MSP with a shipbuilding background has warned that BAE Systems will need a major new warship design contract within around eighteen months to avoid the risk of job losses on the Clyde, in his response…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (451+ words) The Royal Navy's Wildcat maritime helicopters are to be replaced by autonomous aircraft, with the Defence Investment Plan setting out a future in which increasingly autonomous rotorcraft fly from the fleet's frigates and destroyers, the plan said. The plan listed…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (408+ words) UK Defence Journal The Royal Navy is to acquire new offshore support vessels alongside Norway to serve as motherships for its growing fleet of autonomous minehunters, as part of a wider investment in mine warfare, the Defence Investment Plan said....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (469+ words) The United Kingdom will acquire three new floating dry docks and supporting infrastructure at the Faslane submarine base, giving the green light to a long-stalled plan to ease the shortage of facilities for taking nuclear submarines out of the water…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (180+ words) The plan committed the money to what it called the full recapitalisation of the Jet Training System, intended to deliver both sovereign and international training with what it described as a significant UK workshare, and said the new aircraft would…...

2+ day, 32+ min ago  (609+ words) UK Defence Journal Graeme Downie, the MP for Dunfermline and Dollar, has welcomed the Defence Investment Plan's commitment to a new Common Combat Vessel and pressed for it to be based on the Type 31 frigate and built at Rosyth, where…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (603+ words) UK Defence Journal The Defence Investment Plan gives the UK's Special Forces a 12 percent funding uplift over four years and equips its high-readiness troops, 16 Air Assault Brigade and the Commando Force, with new communications, drones and night-vision kit. The plan…...

2+ day, 59+ min ago  (212+ words) The Royal Navy will spend almost "250 million developing autonomous aircraft to fly from its two aircraft carriers alongside the F-35 B, building what it calls a Hybrid Carrier Air Wing under a programme named Project PANTHEON, the Defence Investment Plan said....

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1242+ words) Officials nonetheless presented the investment as proof that combat air remains central to the UK's plans even as a great deal of money is shifting towards drones and autonomy. Good " the jet has huge export potential IF governments avoid the…...