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Friday, 29 October 2010
Plymouth-based Royal Navy warship HMS Cornwall set sail yesterday on a six-month deployment to the Gulf of Aden where she will conduct counter-piracy ...
Friday, 29 October 2010
General Sir David Richards has assumed the appointment of Chief of the Defence Staff today, Friday 29 October 2010, and Mrs Ursula Brennan takes over ...
Friday, 29 October 2010
An Army medic has helped her team come second in an Army netball tournament in Germany just over a year after being injured in a Taliban ambush while ...
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Royal Mail has issued a special commemorative sheet of stamps today to recognise the sacrifice and contribution made by all those who have served in t...
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Early one evening in 2008, with just eight shopping days left to Christmas, phones rang in the homes of members of the MOD Salvage and Marine…...
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Having completed their final in-country training, soldiers from the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment's Falcon Squadron have been out talking with their new nei...
Thursday, 28 October 2010
A British soldier, recently deployed to Afghanistan, has escaped serious injury or worse thanks to his Osprey Body Armour....
Thursday, 28 October 2010
The Royal British Legion's 90th Poppy Appeal was launched today with a special focus on the support for the injured, wounded and bereaved members of t...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Foreign Secretary William Hague has delivered the Government's first quarterly report on Afghanistan in which he said steady progress is being made al...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
A small team of Royal Naval engineers, who fly out to fix and recover Sea King helicopters that break down outside the confines of Camp Bastion, have ...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
The role of the RAF Fire Service (RAFFS) at Camp Bastion, the main UK base in Helmand province, goes far beyond that which is expected in normal UK op...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
The UK Government announced its revised National Action Plan (NAP) for the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR 1325), covering...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Two Army engineers have scaled the sheer rock beneath Edinburgh Castle in bare feet to mark the beginning of the European Military Climbing Championsh...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Explaining the background to the review Dr Fox said that over the last six months he has had to help produce a thorough, cross-government Strategic…...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Cyclops Squadron from the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (2 RTR) is now on the ground in Helmand province putting the new Wolfhound and Mastiff vehicles to g...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
British warship HMS Montrose came to the aid of the German-owned ship MV Beluga Fortune yesterday after she had been attacked by armed pirates in the ...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The first commercially available, federated cyber test range in the UK was opened last week by the Minister for International Security Strategy, Geral...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Cambridge Sappers earned their first non-commissioned officer (NCO) stripes after completing a four-week course which concluded last week with one of ...
Monday, 25 October 2010
Speech delivered by Secretary of State for Defence at the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) industry dinner on Monday 25 Octo...
Monday, 25 October 2010
As Energy Saving Week begins, staff at the Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency headquarters have been leaving their cars at home and gettin...
Monday, 25 October 2010
HMS Astute was unable to free herself at first but refloated on the first high tide on Friday night. This was a non-nuclear incident and there…...
Monday, 25 October 2010
The 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment Battle Group recently deployed to Helmand as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade and is forward mounted…...
Monday, 25 October 2010
A young Afghan girl who was shot by Taliban insurgents as they attacked a British patrol in Helmand has been given lifesaving treatment by soldiers fr...
Monday, 25 October 2010
Sea Cadets led 550 young people from across the Cadet Forces as they celebrated the historic 205th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar with a spect...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Camp Bastion is at the heart of British operations in Afghanistan - the logistics hub that keeps operations flowing - and it is RAF force protection t...
Friday, 22 October 2010
One of Britain's newest warships HMS Daring has spent most of October working with the US aircraft carrier USS Enterprise off the Eastern Seaboard of ...
Friday, 22 October 2010
The crisp autumnal morning chill is punctuated by the dull crump of tank shells hitting their distant targets. Precise instructions ensure that weapon...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Almost 1,000 personnel from the HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) and other agencies linked up in Cornwall last week for a key NATO training exerc...
Friday, 22 October 2010
A team from 2 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) has won 7th Armoured Brigade's annual regatta in one of the clo...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Various media outlets have reported that HMS Astute appears to have grounded off the Isle of Skye. ...