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Thursday, 26 July 2012
With the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games taking place tomorrow, and Olympic events already underway, Ian Carr examines the role of t...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team – The Red Arrows are extremely proud to represent the Royal Air Force, the Armed Forces and the United Kingdom at t...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Modern-day soldiers have followed in their regimental ancestors' footsteps to Spain, to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Salamanca....
Thursday, 26 July 2012
During a visit to HMS Ocean, which is moored on the Thames, Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to all the military personnel on duty over the O...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Members of the British Army Reserves are in Italy, learning how to adapt to the changing nature of conflict....
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Royal Navy’s newest Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, has sailed into her new home at Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth for the first time today....
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
International aerospace and defence contractor The Boeing Company, which is a major supplier to MOD, has become the first to sign up to a new policy e...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
In the year since British troops formally handed responsibility for security in Lashkar Gah to Afghan forces, the positive changes in the district are...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The first dedicated centre of excellence for treating Royal Marines recruits injured in training opened yesterday in Devon....
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Royal Navy's newest Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, sailed into her new home at Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth today....
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Army Officer and Team GB rower Captain Heather Stanning is hotly tipped as a medal hope at the London 2012 Games. She talked to Lorraine McBride ahead...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Gunners from 51 Squadron RAF Regiment have just completed a key operation alongside the United States Marine Corps (USMC) to ensure the area around Ca...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Colchester-based airborne gunners have been chased down by police dogs during training....
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The Ministry of Defence is deploying an additional 1,200 members of the Armed Forces to provide resilience and flexibility as the busiest period of th...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
British soldiers based in Kabul have been working alongside the Afghan Uniform Police (AUP) to deliver essential aid to some of the city's poorest inh...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Fire crews from the Defence Fire Risk Management Organisation (DFRMO) have lent their support to tackling a major fire at a vehicle scrapyard and meta...
Monday, 23 July 2012
The Ministry of Defence has signed a multi-million pound contract for new boots for the Army, Royal Navy and RAF....
Monday, 23 July 2012
The resting place of a Second World War RAF Hurricane pilot listed as missing in action for more than 70 years has been found....
Monday, 23 July 2012
Five years ago, Private Derek Derenalagi lost both legs when he was injured in Afghanistan. Now he's been selected to compete with Team GB at the Para...
Monday, 23 July 2012
HMS Sutherland has stopped off at Gibraltar to take part in a series of gunnery exercises as she begins her six-month deployment....
Monday, 23 July 2012
Actor Simon Pegg has joined patients and staff at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Headley Court to see the development of a new cinem...
Monday, 23 July 2012
Speech by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence....
Friday, 20 July 2012
The contribution of the Armed Forces to the Olympics security effort was today praised by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond who toured a military accom...
Friday, 20 July 2012
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has completed a new Physical and Remedial Training Centre for 40 Commando Royal Marines (40 Cdo RM ) at ...
Friday, 20 July 2012
The head of the Royal Air Force has visited Swanwick to meet air traffic controllers managing British skies during the Olympic Games....
Friday, 20 July 2012
The Commander of the Afghan Army's 3/215 Brigade, Brigadier General Sherin Shah, has visited members of 4th Mechanized Brigade ahead of their deployme...
Friday, 20 July 2012
HMS Diamond has joined Australian ship HMAS Melbourne as she takes her place in the international naval effort to counter criminal activity on the sea...
Thursday, 19 July 2012
The first of the UK’s next generation stealth combat aircraft has today been handed over to the MoD....
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Today the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) are announcing a simplification and streamlining of the financial suppor...
Thursday, 19 July 2012
The British Armed Forces have returned 843 artefacts from the British Museum to the Afghan capital Kabul, almost 20 years after they were stolen and s...