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A nice little surprise today: the first clear photo of a Z‑9D naval helicopter kicking loose a Type 11 guided depth charge surfaced on the Chinese internet, submarine pun, of course, intended. For a weapon category most people mentally file under WWI, WWII, and the sound design of Das Boot, guided depth charges have enjoyed a surprisingly healthy second life in the PLANWhen CCTV first
Kemi Badenoch has written to Keir Starmer offering Conservative votes to cut the welfare bill and redirect the savings to defence, telling the Prime Minister it is time to “get serious” after the resignations of John Healey and Al Carns.
The post Badenoch offers support to fund warfare through welfare cuts first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
A milestone moment for China’s interceptor program: the J‑8II taking to the air for the first time on June 12, 1984. The redesigned nose, side‑intakes, and stretched fuselage marked a clean break from the original J‑8 Bonus Photo:J‑8II in the United States, circa 1986, during the short‑lived Peace Pearl program, that brief window when Washington and Beijing were friendly enough for the
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte the UK will still publish its Defence Investment Plan ahead of next month’s summit.
The post Starmer tells NATO chief UK will publish DIP before summit first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
U.S. officials ordered the company to limit foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
HMS Stirling Castle has been formally commissioned into the Royal Navy on the Firth of Forth, marking the operational start of Britain’s unique minehunting mothership, which carries autonomous and remotely operated systems to hunt mines in place of traditional crewed minehunters.
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Anthropic disputes restrictions on Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the decision lacks transparency and isn’t based on clear technical evidence. On Friday June 12 at 5:21pm ET, Anthropic received a letter from the US Commerce Department, signed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and drafted with officials from the Bureau of Industry and Security. The […]
HMS Prince of Wales and her carrier group joined NATO’s Dynamic Mongoose anti-submarine exercise off Norway, with the UK fielding the largest national contribution as nine nations hunted German, Portuguese and Dutch submarines across two weeks in the High North.
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Sweden’s Quick Reaction Alert scrambled JAS 39 Gripen fighters twice on Friday to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Air Force has said, after detecting a Russian Su-24 and a Su-34 near Swedish airspace.
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Ferguson Marine has completed the first official engine start on Glen Rosa, the CalMac ferry being built at Port Glasgow.
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