Tag: United Kingdom

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense has just announced 229M GBP deal with SAAB for the purchase of shoulder-launched Next generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon (NLAW) systems, with deliveries to begin in 2023. The deal is expected to bolster the depleted stockpiles. As of September 2022, the U.K. has sent more...

The United Kingdom Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has ordered the Chinese company Nexperia to sell its recently gained 86% share of the company Newport Wafer Fab. Nexperia originally only had a 14% share in the company before July 5th, 2021 when it bought the remaining 86%...

In his annual National Threat Assessment speech to the British people, MI5 Director  Ken McCullum laid out various plots by the Iranian government to kidnap or assassinate British citizens, some living in the UK. He commented that Iranian intelligence services made at least 10 attempts to kill or kidnap British...

United Kingdom Armed Forces Minister Heappey has announced today that its forward deployed troops in Mali, as part of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) will withdraw. Minister Heappey told the Parliament that the Chinook helicopter support and special forces deployed to Mali would be...

The British newspaper Mail on Sunday, citing unnamed security sources, reported that former United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss’s personal cell phone was hacked by suspected Russian intelligence agents. The alleged hacking is said to have taken place over the Summer when Truss was working as the Foreign Secretary, in...

As this publication published two days ago, Eurofighter Typhoons are now escorting RC-135 RIVET JOINT flights over the Black Sea. However, UK Defense Secretary Wallace has confirmed to press what Russian military bloggers were claiming on September 30th, that two Russian Su-27s shadowed an RC-135 on September 29th, 2022...