Operation Kipion has effectively been suspended as the Royal Navy has withdrawn its two vessels from the Gulf. The frigate HMS Lancaster was decommissioned in December 2025, and the minesweeper HMS Middleton left the Gulf the week before US and Israeli airstrikes began, to return to the UK.

The British Army’s Watchkeeper UAV, originally intended to leave service in March 2025, has had its troubled service life extended to March 2027, while procurement for successor platforms remains in the early stages. The Ministry of Defence (MoD ...

Retired British Army Col. Richard Kemp, who commanded U.K. forces in Afghanistan in the early 2000s, is warning about the current sad state of his country's military. In a Wednesday piece for The Telegraph,

The British Army is testing a new device called the WEEVIL that turns any compatible armored vehicle into a robotic mine-clearing machine that can autonomously plow a minefield into a dirt road while the crew is miles away – and it looks mean doing it. With the present geopolitical situation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, landmines are making a very unpleasant comeback. Because modern ...

LONDON—The British Army has begun to engage with industry on the acquisition of an autonomous collaborative platform (ACP) that could operate alongside its Boeing Apache attack helicopters. Following in the footsteps of the Royal Air Force, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's T-14 tanks are considered its best, but they don't seem to have been in Ukraine.Sean Gallup/Getty Images The British military expected to see more "prestige" Russian equipment ...

After working with Ukrainian soldiers, the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards now has a "drone hub," an obstacle course," and rigorous drone training.

The British Army’s Watchkeeper Mk1 uncrewed air system (UAS) could remain in service until 2027, despite the government announcing last autumn that it would be withdrawn from early 2025. Revealing the move in November as part of a broader cost-saving ...

When Holly Parish’s* husband was posted from Salisbury Plain to Aldershot halfway through the academic year four years ago, she immediately rang round the primary schools in the area to find school places for her eldest two children. The only places ...

Magnus takes on the British military fitness test under timed and structured conditions The assessment combines endurance, loaded movement, and repeated physical effort with little recovery Each stage builds fatigue,