British F-35 Lightnings have flown over Finland for the first time to deter Russia after being launched from HMS Prince of Wales as part of Ramstein Flag 26.

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NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group has issued its first ministerial statement on nuclear deterrence since 2007, pledging to modernise nuclear capabilities and strengthen planning.

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US Air Force B-1B Lancers, F-15E Strike Eagles and F-35A Lightning IIs flew together over the North Sea during Astral Knight 26, a major US air and missile defence exercise running across the United Kingdom.

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Britain will give Ukraine 150,000 drones and over 350 air defence missiles and radars in a GBP 752 million package funded from immobilised Russian assets, the Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis has announced in Brussels, where he also met President Zelensky.

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The United Kingdom and five European allies have agreed to move their joint long-range strike initiative from a planning effort into standalone delivery groups, accelerating work on a range of missiles, launchers and deep-strike systems.

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General Atomics has won a US Air Force production contract for the FQ-42A, a purpose-built uncrewed fighter designed to fly alongside crewed jets, one of the first aircraft to carry the new “FQ” designation for an uncrewed fighter.

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American F-35s, F-15Es and B-1B bombers are flying from British bases in Astral Knight 2026, an air and missile defence exercise, rehearsing the defence of allied airspace and strikes against simulated enemy forces.

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The defence technology firm MARSS has opened a new office in Nice and begun recruiting to double the size of its global artificial intelligence team.

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Inzpire, part of the QinetiQ Group, has delivered its GECO mission support system to the Red Arrows in time for the 2026 display season, fitting a cockpit-mounted tablet to the team’s Hawks to aid planning, flypasts and post-flight debriefs.

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Airbus has unveiled the U760 Ravenstorm, an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft designed to fly alongside crewed fighter jets in air-to-air, air-to-ground and electronic warfare missions, as the centrepiece of a sweeping new drone portfolio.

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