^ Always surprises me how far along in construction she is.

A little clip showing the work going on at Portsmouth for the carriers:

http://i.imgur.com/wRimiBf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SBnu9Wa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4oBOQnc.jpg Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets have carried out their first intercept of Russian aircraft in this round of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission (BAP). The jets, which deployed to the region less than th...

Lockheed Martin Set to Re-bid on Crowsnest Lockheed Martin UK will submit a revised Crowsnest Demonstration and Manufacture phase proposal in June 2016 A contract award is now being targeted for the third quarter of 2016 A Demonstration and Manufacture contract award for the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) ...

U.S. show of force in South Korea:











Images from The Aviationist:
https://theaviationist.com/?p=38649?p=38649

Manufacturing Contract Awarded For Type 26 Diesel Generators BAE Systems has awarded an equipment contract to Rolls-Royce to manufacture diesel generators for the first three Type 26 anti-submarine warfare ships for the Royal Navy. This marks the first Type 26 manufacturing contract to be agreed si...

Foxhounds trying Bulwark for size:

Surprised we haven't got a thread on this already. Most of the results are in and here's what we've got... Key points (from the BBC): SNP celebrate victory in Scotland but fall short of a majority Scottish Conservatives push Labour into third Labour on course to remain largest party in Welsh Assembl...

UK Commits AWACS Aircraft to NATO's Mission to Counter Russia The UK is to commit one of its Boeing E-3D Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to NATO as part of a wider ramping up of measures set to counter Russian military activity along the alliance's eastern flank. The det...

The Sun reporting Lusty is to be scrapped:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... scrap.html

UK RAF Completes Brimstone 2 Operational Evaluation Trials on Tornado GR4 The United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF) has successfully conducted and completed Operational Evaluation trials of the Brimstone 2 fast-jet precision attack surface-to-air missile. The trials are the final milestone before a ...

Another "Top Gear" episode with the Chally 2 in the making?

The British Army's Chemical Warfare U-Turn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEkoqbdgPE[quote]A specialist British Army unit which was disbanded several years ago is being brought back to life. Falcon Squadron, part of the Royal Tank Regiment, are experts in dealing with threats from chemical and ot...

Would you be kind enough to share the source, Gabriele? It would be nice to have for my own records. Cheers. Sure thing, it's a FOI document: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/520367/PJHQ_FOI2016_03828___Number_of_Reaper__Tornado_and_Typhoon_missions_flown__s...

A thread for the Fuchs APC, ordered to be withdrawn from use in the 2010 SDSR, but apparently now back out in use.

22 Engineer Regiment with Fuchs in Jordan for Ex Shamal Storm:

Another scramble yesterday to an unresponsive aircraft, this time closer to my home near Leeds. Several loud bangs were reported as the aircraft went supersonic. I sadly didn't hear or see anything. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sonic-booms-shake-houses-in-yorkshire-after-two-raf-ty...

Another from John Williams: the theme to Jurassic Park:

April 2016 newsletter is now out:
http://www.aircraftcarrieralliance.co.u ... 016-v1.pdf

Well, doesn't time fly? The UK Defence Forum is officially a year old as of today (well, technically, a year and a day old, since the forum was created on the 28th but opened to the public on the 29th). Me and RetroSicotte thought we'd put together a special thread to mark the occasion. Firstly, tha...

The F-22 making spotters happy at the Mach Loop in Wales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV9H8jbvDxo[quote]A Tornado mission on Thursday 21 April saw the first use of the RAF’s Enhanced Paveway III (EPWIII) against Daesh – a guided bomb with a 2000lb deep penetration warhead. Our aircraft normally carry the smaller Paveway IV guided bombs and Brimstone mi...

Caught this on Twitter: http://www.air-cosmos.com/royaume-uni-d ... c-17-70577 (in French)

A French source claiming that the RAF is investigating the tactical use of its C-17s. 20 "jumps" have already taken place apparently.

Welcome to the UK Defence Forum, R_Murphy. :) The subject of this thread is being discussed in the SDSR 2015 thread, here: http://ukdefenceforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=56&start=525#p21602 You are more than welcome to join that discussion. I'm going to lock this thread now. Please Private M...

UK Discloses Zephyr-Suited Payload Investment The UK government’s Centre for Defence Excellence (CDE) is supporting the development of payload projects, which will seemingly be adapted for use on its new Airbus Defence & Space Zephyr high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS). A series of CDE-funded...