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  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    Ministry of Defence UK
    UK military relaxes recruiting rules to attract cyber specialists

    Tech experts can now be taken directly into senior ranks without having to work their way up the hierarchy

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    UK defence spending
    UK military makes sweeping cuts as focus moves to technological warfare

    Army to lose 9,500 personnel while older tanks, aircraft and warships will be retired

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    UK defence spending
    UK looks to new ‘Ranger’ regiment to tackle emerging conflicts

    Unit modelled on US army’s elite Green Berets part of radical overhaul of military

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Aerospace & Defence
    UK military planners deploy AI to gain edge over adversaries

    PM has made clear that modernising armed forces will depend on harnessing machine learning

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Serco Group PLC
    Serco to buy US military business in boost to defence revenues

    UK outsourcer’s shares rise as it agrees $295m deal for Whitney, Bradley & Brown

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    Cyber warfare
    UK targeted Isis drones and online servers in cyber attack

    Intelligence and military chiefs reveal details of operation to weaken terrorist group in 2016-2017

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan aims to deploy unmanned fighter jets in 2035

    Aircraft designed to counter China’s superiority in numbers

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    In 165 countries, China’s Beidou eclipses American GPS

    Beijing extends its data reach into space and sea

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Cyber warfare
    National Cyber Force will target UK adversaries online

    Unit staffed by spies from GCHQ, MI6 and military personnel will grow to 3,000 within the next decade

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Wars of the future may be won or lost in space, says head of RAF

    UK has to be ready to protect and defend critical national interests in orbit, warns military chief

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Taiwan
    US approves drone sale to help Taiwan detect China invasion

    Washington has sold Taipei weapons worth $4.8bn in the past fortnight

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Russia throws doubt on chances of nuclear control treaty with US

    Trump administration has been pushing for a new agreement ahead of presidential election

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Cyber warfare
    Top general lifts lid on Britain’s cyber attack capability

    Rare insight into ways UK can hit back against its enemies’ critical infrastructure

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    UK defence spending
    Defence secretary admits UK is behind adversaries

    Ben Wallace says upcoming defence review will mark a switch from traditional to technological warfighting

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    News in-depth
    Russia satellite weapon test reignites space arms race fears

    World powers developing new generation of ‘Star Wars’ military assets, experts say

  • Saturday, 25 July, 2020
    Chinese military
    China plans hybrid assault vessel to strengthen overseas power

    People’s Liberation Army is accelerating efforts to match US offshore capabilities

  • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
    US accuses Russia of testing new space-based weapon

    Former cold war rivals could be extending their conflict into a new theatre

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Military pilots and NHS paramedics form coronavirus task force  

    Armed forces personnel and health workers will airlift patients to hospital by helicopter

  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2020
    UK defence spending
    RAF chief warns of Russian ‘adventurism’

    Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft will protect the UK’s submarine nuclear deterrent

  • Friday, 3 January, 2020
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    Could investing in military tech make your portfolio more defensive?

    Whether we like it or not, spending on arms and security will rise in the next few years 

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2019
    Elisabeth Braw
    Business must prepare for aggression by states

    Companies should consider participating in military exercises

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    France plans lasers to blind enemy satellites

    Minister outlines ‘active defence’ in space and orbiting nano-satellite patrols

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Turkish politics1 min
    Defiant Turkey receives first batch of Russian S-400 missile defences

    Delivery of system likely to deepen tension with the US

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    Russia
    Secrecy surrounds Russian submarine incident

    Moscow refuses to reveal details two days after fire killed 14 sailors

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
    Japan recovers part of crashed F-35 fighter jet

    Flight recorder damaged while fuselage with secret stealth technology still missing

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