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With calls growing for @Keir_Starmer to accelerate plans to rebuild the UK’s armed forces, we tracked our military shrinkage from 1983 (a year after UK forces seized back the Falklands from Argentina) to now. Personnel numbers are down by almost two thirds
Spend more on defence or risk being vulnerable to missile and drone attacks, UK warned
The UK is at risk of being vulnerable to the kind of missile and drone attacks seen across the Gulf, the aut...
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Nous devons penser notre stratégie de dissuasion dans la profondeur du continent européen, dans le plein respect de notre souveraineté, avec la mise en place progressive de ce que j’appellerai une dissuasion avancée.
Tune into our High Ground podcast with @gregbagwell and @BellusUK as they examine the build-up to the US air and missile strikes on Iran, launched today, their legality, what the UK might do, and what the consequences might be. https://airspacepower.com/the-high-ground-an-aspa-podcast/?playlist=191eb9d&video=9d2e0ef
Now on stage at the Security and Defence Conference at Chatham House: Drones: The defence buzz word. Exploring how widespread drone use could signal the rise of autonomous armies and reshape armed forces training.
'Drone is a catch-all term now that can mean all things to all
Join us for an online panel discussion to examine Iran’s internal stability, deterrence capacity, nuclear diplomacy, and the prospects for war or transition.
📅 12 March
🕰️ 10:00 - 11:00
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You probably won’t find many people in Defence that wouldn’t say privately or anonymously that it needs more money and needs it now - indeed, that would be true for the last two decades. MoD budgeting, for as long as I remember, has always been about what you can’t have.🧵
Cool video round-up of yesterday's Fireside Chat by @ChiefofAirStaff at RAeS HQ. #avgeek #defence
-30°C. 200 miles above the Arctic Circle.
In the strategically vital High North, Britain’s Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron train where few others can.
Minister for the Armed Forces, Col @AlistairCarns, joined them in Norway. 🇳🇴
If you can operate here, you can operate
How does the RAF detect and counter hostile drones? 🛑
The Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems team works with constantly developing technology to meet the emerging threats of today’s world.
The message from the Munich Security Conference this weekend was clear: what those of us in uniform do matters.
It matters for our country. It matters for our allies. And it matters more now than it has done for a very long time.
The High North is a complex theatre which requires all elements of UK power to work in harmony. And Air & Space capabilities remain key to policing such a vast, inhospitable place. But working in our “backyard” will ease some of the support and sustainment challenges of HIGHMAST.
In our latest High Ground podcast @gregbagwell and @BellusUK discuss what might have changed since the UK’s SDR was published, and what that might mean for the much anticipated Defence Investment Plan. https://airspacepower.com/the-high-ground-an-aspa-podcast/?playlist=191eb9d&video=9d2e0ef
The @ChiefofAirStaff Global Air & Space Chiefs’ Conference is now less than two months away! In this video, RAF Deputy Commander Operations, Air Marshal @HarvSmyth, tells us more about the topics we can expect to hear about.
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