Defence budget boost
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the budget for UK Defence will rise to 2.5 per cent of the nation’s economic output by 2027.
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the budget for UK Defence will rise to 2.5 per cent of the nation’s economic output by 2027.
19 individual wins at Meribel and team victories in skiing and snowboarding
SQUADRON LEADER Stanley Booker, who has died at 102, was a Bomber Command veteran and one of the last survivors of the 168 Allied airmen captured and interned in Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Highland Kukri Dawn honing chopper crews for the frontline
THE DUCHESS of Edinburgh was introduced to Forces families at Wittering as the station marked its royal links this month.
Doug’s saddling up with 70s icon for Dambusters anniversary ride
Allies put interoperability to test on Europe’s biggest air exercise
SERVICE CYCLOCROSS stars bagged three podium finishes at the IS championships in Worcester.
Army are too good in the end for battling Under 23s
AFTER A season of personal bests and top-12 finishes, aviator Flt Lt Nicole Burger secured qualification for the ISBF skeleton World Cup in 2026.
MICHAEL KNIGHTS writes raw and atmospheric contemporary military history. He focuses on one of the world’s most inhospitable and dangerous environments, the multi-faceted, enduring conflict in Yemen.
GREEN SCHEMES at an RAF station are up for two of this year’s Sanctuary Awards.
CAS FELLOWSHIP scholar Flt Lt James Langan took to the podium at the US West Point academy to present his research on UK strategic alliances over the last three centuries.
AIRMAN FS Dave Burton is backing a charity bid to complete a 660km ride across Malaysia to support local veterans.
WORK TO resurface part of the airfield in the Falkland Islands has been completed ahead of schedule.
DEFENCE BOFFINS unleashed their latest weapon against the IED threat – a robotic dog equipped with a high-energy ‘distrupter’.
A US Marine Corps F-35B has conducted the first test flights of the Meteor missile at the US Naval Air Station at Patuxent River, ahead of planned use on the UK’s own Lockheed stealth jets.
BRITAIN’S TOP air training event takes off from RAF air stations across the country this month.
TEAM GB produced an incredible second place in the final standings with a medal haul of 38 from the first-ever summer/winter Invictus Games in Vancouver Whistler.
Women warm up for IS
THE NEWEST members of the RAF Regiment have graduated from Trainee Gunner Course 3-24, Meiktila Flight at RAF Honington.
A400 fuels Typhoon anti-terror mission
Brize debutants net scholarships
Bullet smashed into cockpit and hit cig pack - now Walter marks 101st
SEVEN RAF alpine stars will be competing in British Championship events later this month after winning UKAF selection after this year’s Inter-Services.
IT MAY have ended in fifth round FA Cup defeat for Wolves women, but Sgt Dan McNamara’s side still have it all to play for in 2025.
RAF DARTS struck a double top after OIC Cpl Zara Warhurst was named Ambassador of the Year at the ‘club Oscars’ and the association achieved recognised status from the UKAF Sports Board.
“WE ARE in a good place,” proclaimed RAFRU head coach FS Tom Gardner after his team’s 47-13 trouncing of GB Police at Sixways Stadium, Worcester.
A QUARTET of springer spaniel assistance dogs arrived on the Highland frontline as air crews wound up operations following the 10-day war drill.
AIR FORCE rescuers worked through the night to save two stranded walkers from treacherous terrain in Scotland’s Glencoe.
AIR FORCE mum Jacky Aubrey is hitting the road to raise money for military welfare group SSAFA, which helped her battle health problems.
CONINGSBY’S 12 Sqn marked its 110th anniversary with the unveiling of a new memorial in honour of more than 1,000 personnel who have died in the line of duty since its formation as part of the Royal Flying Corps in 1915.
BRITAIN IS doubling funding for medical and rehabilitation services in Ukraine to £20million to help rebuild a military hospital damaged by Russian airstrikes.
A FORMER Para who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal during the Falklands War has signed on Cranwell’s Wall of Honour – after returning from personally delivering humanitarian aid in Ukraine.