The Defence Committee chair said the Army’s armoured vehicle woes now amount to “an absolute shambles,” as ministers ordered external experts to investigate fresh Ajax injuries and wider failures across key land fleets.

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The Ministry of Defence has announced that a member of the UK Armed Forces died in Ukraine on Tuesday, 9 December, following what officials described as a “tragic accident” during a weapons trial conducted by Ukrainian forces.

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Anduril UK and GKN Aerospace have signed an exclusive teaming agreement to deliver the airframe for the British Army’s Project NYX.

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The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the Armed Forces will begin reducing the number of overseas training exercises from next year.

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Two Romanian drivers have been jailed for attempting to smuggle almost fifty people from the UK into France using vans and lorries, following a National Crime Agency operation at Dover Port in September.

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A formal safety investigation into the Army’s Ajax armoured vehicle will take at least two weeks, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed, in a move that deepens uncertainty around the programme.

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CEPA, a leading European security think tank, told the UK Defence Journal that Irish neutrality has no impact on Russian actions against the country or Europe as a whole.

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More than a third of the Ajax vehicles in a recent British Army training exercise were linked to new noise and vibration injuries, the UK Defence Journal understands.

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NATO foreign ministers have endorsed work on a path toward spending 5 percent of national GDP on defence and reaffirmed continued support for Ukraine.

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The UK has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia’a military intelligence agency, the GRU, after the final report of the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry concluded that Putin personally authorised the Salisbury operation that killed a British citizen.

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