Soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Rifles have joined Finland’s Kainuu Brigade for Exercise Northern Star, around 43 miles from the Russian border.

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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.

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The Defence Infrastructure Organisation has begun market engagement on a facilities management contract for British forces in the Falkland and Ascension Islands worth an estimated GBP 500 million, running for ten years from 2030 with a possible extension to 2040.

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Al Carns, who quit as Armed Forces Minister alongside John Healey over the Defence Investment Plan, has warned that “the next war won’t be won by armies, navies or air forces alone” and that Britain is “not being honest about what getting ready will cost”.

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BAE Systems is launching a Next Generation Indirect Fire Control System at Eurosatory in Paris, a digital fire control capability the company says connects individual guns to wider sensor networks for faster targeting, developed with a sovereign UK baseline configuration.

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A techUK survey of 45 defence technology suppliers has found 93% reassessing investment or recruitment, 73% hit by contract suspensions and 87% by funding delays, with the unpublished Defence Investment Plan named as the single biggest driver.

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ADS chief executive Kevin Craven says John Healey’s resignation has sent the trade body “reeling” and is “a damning reflection on the current state of affairs”, warning that “national security and defence of the realm is not an accountant’s job”.

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Accounts linked to BlackCore are said to have targeted First Minister John Swinney, who called the findings “deeply concerning” and urged the UK government to take online interference more seriously.

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The findings of an internal review into Army Reserve basic training will not be published, the MoD has told Parliament, with no external stakeholders consulted.

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The Commons Defence Committee has called John Healey’s resignation a “grave moment”, with chair Tan Dhesi saying the government “must take that warning with the utmost seriousness”.

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