UK Defence Journal

Allied chiefs of defence have sent what NATO describes as a direct and united message to the defence industry that allies are ready to buy at scale, and that industry must be able to deliver with speed, scale and predictability,

Otokar and Leonardo have completed integration work and live firing trials of the Tulpar medium tank fitted with Leonardo’s HITFACT MkII 120 mm turret, a configuration intended to combine main battle tank-level firepower with the mobility, protection and modular tracked architecture of the Turkish platform, the companies stated.

Before any rounds were fired, engineering teams...

The combined civil and defence nuclear sector grew from 83,000 people in 2023 to over 100,000 in 2025, according to early indications from the latest Nuclear Workforce Assessment set out in the annual update to Parliament published this week.

Within that, the Defence Nuclear Enterprise employs over 47,000, with demand expected to grow to around 65,000 by 2030. Organisations s...

Spanish F-18 fighters have carried out 15 Alpha Scrambles during their first month on NATO Quick Reaction Alert duty in Romania, including one mission in which an unidentified drone was shot down after entering Romanian airspace,

Britain is regularly examining NATO and international military flying training schemes as it looks at the quality, cost and output of training new fast-jet pilots, according to a parliamentary answer.

The work was set out in response to a writte...