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While obviously yes we should be looking ahead, acting like 10 years ago isn’t relevant, rather than when Russia started its invasion of Ukraine seems a little wilfully opaque.

former finland pm sanna marin in new op ed: “it is entirely reasonable for american taxpayers to question why they should shoulder more of the cost of european security than europe itself. given the clear message from washington, it is simply unrealistic not to strengthen

Winter Deployment 25' supplying some great imagery, as usual. VIKING mortar line, 29 Commando with 105mm guns, MERLIN HC4 with Air Portable Fuel Container and a couple of Anduril GHOST 4. An unknown number of GHOSTs are in use as short range recce assets within Commando force.

This is a list of every British billionaire. Their combined net worth is less than 8 months of NHS spending.

"Nature of warfare has changed significantly so we must modernise and reform our capabilities as we invest. We must seek value for money". Not just more money, but better spending is a huge opportunity for UK industry and provides a fantastic opportunity for next gen tech

Just got off the phone w/ John Healey — the UK Secretary of State for Defense — who confirmed they will increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, and eventually much further. A strong step from an enduring partner. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Interesting read but there's also a very big difference between buying major COTS platforms from America and getting sovereign capability at great VfM because initial R&D investment took place in the States. TL;DR: Don't throw baby out with bathwater

No point chaning the entire nature of defence procurement if you can't have some fun with it as well 😍

The UK has struck a £30M deal with Anglo-American company Anduril to supply advanced attack drones for Ukraine, boosting Defense of Ukraine capabilities to tackle Russian aggression in the Black Sea. This follows over 10,000 drones delivered to the front line so far. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇦

Supporting Scotland in the 6N feels so weird but my god I’m here for it #FRAvSCO #FlowerOfScotland

“I’m surprised how important the fish are given the security situation”…

You’ve genuinely got to respect the absolutely constant grift

And today no major British bank will let you open an account if you’re a defence company…

New 1SL. It’s like Christmas for bumsnorkler

🚨From 10 June: A new podcast series about a wargame that simulates a Russian attack on the UK Former ministers & military chiefs play the UK government pitched against an imagined Kremlin Russia knows our weaknesses - but do you? Sky News & Tortoise news.sky.com/story/the-warg…

Oops. Daily Mail seems to have missed some rather major events of the last year unless we’ve gone into a coalition, reinstated Rishi as PM and I just haven’t noticed?

Richard Burgon getting slapped down by Luke Pollard is undeniably an enjoyable warm up to the SDR

BREAKING: The UK will be forced to agree this month to increase defence spending to 3.5% of national income by 2035 as part of a NATO push to rearm and keep the US on side, Sky News understands

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Germany just announced it’ll raise core defence spending to 3.5% by 2029, up from 2% currently It’s published budget plans for how it will fund it and how spending will ramp up each year Means Berlin has a clear plan to hit the new NATO target years ahead of the 2035 deadline