Around two in five of the 119 trainee fast jet pilots in the RAF’s pipeline are on holdover between courses or waiting to start their operational conversion unit, fresh MoD figures show.

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Fourteen of the twenty-four Hawk T1 jets still on the books of the Royal Air Force have used up more than eighty per cent of their fatigue index, the Ministry of Defence has said.

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Britain’s plan to put its two Falcon 900LX ministerial jets onto the Military Aircraft Register and to fit them with the defensive countermeasures needed for dangerous airspace has been paused while other work takes priority.

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STARK has unveiled two new unmanned systems for NATO forces, a tube-launched loitering munition called Cascade with a reach of up to 100 kilometres and a man-portable quadcopter called Gambit.

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Rheinmetall has finalised its long-trailed exit from the automotive supplier business, agreeing to sell its civilian Power Systems division to the Munich industrial group AEQUITA for a provisional 350 million euros.

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A Romanian Navy official lost two fingers when her hand was caught in the propeller of a V-BAT drone during a training exercise on a boat off the Texas coast last month, in an incident that has come to light only as part of a broader investigation by Reuters.

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A month of what Ukraine calls “middle-strike” operations has brought Russia’s main overland supply route to occupied Crimea and its logistics network across occupied Luhansk under sustained drone fire.

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The Public Accounts Committee says years without a credible long-term investment plan have weakened the UK’s deterrent and has demanded the Ministry of Defence explain how it is shielding suppliers from the harm caused by the delay.

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The United States Department of State has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Denmark covering 200 AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles with Extended Range, with an estimated value of USD 842 million.

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A Conservative peer has told the House of Lords that autonomous weapons may represent a threshold as significant as the arrival of nuclear arms, warning that, unlike nuclear weapons, they are cheap, scalable and hard to contain.

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