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Friday, 17 February 2012
The Royal Navy's next generation helicopter, Wildcat, has completed demanding trials aboard HMS Iron Duke, laying the groundwork for future operations...
Friday, 17 February 2012
British and French soldiers have been taking part in a training exercise this week at the Otterburn Training Area in Northumberland as part of the con...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
The Royal Navy's flagship HMS Bulwark has paid an unexpected visit to the home of the German Navy after winter weather thwarted efforts to visit the c...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
The extra culinary training will help the soldiers prepare a range of meals from their ten-man ration packs in the most austere areas of Helmand…...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Bringing servicemen, women and civil servants home from anywhere in the world when their families need them most is an exacting task, handled with gre...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
A former Nigerian sprinter, who is the holder of the African record at 100 metres, is among the latest recruits to qualify as a Royal Navy logistics s...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Army medic and mother-of-three Lieutenant Colonel Sharon Stewart recently became the recipient of one of the nursing profession's highest honours. Rep...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Lance Corporal Denis Larubi, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (2 MERCIAN), was twice shot at by insurgents while on sentry duty at Checkpoint…...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Nearly 2,500 troops from the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force will parade through Windsor in the presence of Her Majesty and the…...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
In a move which is predicted to revolutionise RAF flying training, 4 (Reserve) Squadron, based at RAF Valley, is gearing up for its first student cour...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
The final batch of Merlin aircrew are now completing years of arduous training off the Cornish coast on the Merlin Mk1 helicopter before the Fleet Air...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
The brains behind some of the British Army's most complex counter-intelligence work have taken up a new role that will see them inform the final stage...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Four RAF apprentices were recognised for their outstanding achievements at the RAF Apprentice of the Year Awards which took place during last week's N...
Monday, 13 February 2012
Members of the RAF Regiment have found and destroyed a large cache of Taliban IED-making equipment in an operation conducted alongside Afghan and US f...
Monday, 13 February 2012
Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset is currently on maritime security operations in the Middle East working alongside Saudi Arabian authorities to …...
Monday, 13 February 2012
Prince Harry recently visited RAF Honington in Suffolk and met station personnel and their families as well as being shown a selection of the unit's s...
Monday, 13 February 2012
British soldiers from 2nd Battalion The Rifles (2 RIFLES) have helped Afghan security forces in an operation to clear insurgents from an area close to...
Monday, 13 February 2012
During the past 12 months, the data from the Defence Analytical Services Agency shows that the personnel at HMS Gannet in Prestwick, Ayrshire…...
Friday, 10 February 2012
Brigadier General Sherin Shah, the Commander of 3rd Brigade of 215 Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA), spends around two hours a day hitting…...
Friday, 10 February 2012
For the first time since 2006 year-on-year violence levels decreased across Afghanistan in 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague said yesterday in the...
Friday, 10 February 2012
The Police Mentoring and Advisory Group (PMAG), which is led by 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (1 PWRR), has been assisting…...
Friday, 10 February 2012
The soldiers, who are based in Wiltshire, undertook exercises at the Stanford Training Area (STANTA) in Norfolk last month. Norfolk is one of…...
Friday, 10 February 2012
A soldier has been talking this week about how his apprenticeship has helped him keep Apaches flying over Afghanistan, while HMS Raleigh has been show...
Thursday, 09 February 2012
Speech by Sir Nick Harvey, Minister for the Armed Forces....
Thursday, 09 February 2012
British soldiers have been helping to spread the influence of the Afghan Government in Helmand province by bringing its representatives together with ...
Thursday, 09 February 2012
A ferocious two-day-long battle between the Taliban and British troops with their Afghan police partners has taken place following a dawn airborne rai...
Thursday, 09 February 2012
12th Mechanized Brigade will replace 20th Armoured Brigade in April 2012 as the lead formation of British troops in Helmand province, Defence Secretar...
Thursday, 09 February 2012
A Royal Navy patrol ship has issued a record on-the-spot fine to fishermen using undersized nets after sailors boarded a Dutch fishing vessel in the N...
Thursday, 09 February 2012
His Royal Highness Prince Harry, or Captain Wales as he is known in the Army, has been named best co-pilot gunner in his Apache training course....
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Cameron said: “Because the Ministry of Defence’s finances are better run and better managed, and because…...
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