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Details of a £10.85 million boost to aid in the recruitment of cadets.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Reservists across the country will today wear their service uniforms with pride at work or as they kick start their training for the Olympics.
Communities across the country are getting behind the Armed Forces Covenant to improve the lives of Service personnel and their families.
The MoD has awarded Rolls Royce a £1.1 billion contract to produce new reactor cores for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines and upgrade the plant where they will be built. The nuclear reactor cores will be used to power th…
HMS Diamond, which played a starring role in Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations earlier this month, sails from Portsmouth on Wednesday (June 13) for her maiden operational deployment to the Middle East.
Speech by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Defence
A new C-17 transport aircraft has been unveiled today by the Defence Secretary at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
Patients at Headley Court are growing stronger through a gardening project which has culminated in the creation of a display garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The biggest ever independent survey of British troops, which explores the relationship between Service personnel and wider society, has been published this week.
Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand province, where British forces operate, has now entered the transition process whereby responsibility for security will be handed over to Afghan forces.
Through a series of tough but necessary decisions, combined with radical reforms of the MOD’s financial processes, the £38bn black hole in the…
The MOD will move away from the Carrier Variant (CV) JSF and our Armed Forces will instead operate the short take-off and vertical landing (…
The trip was supported and funded by the UK charity Help for Heroes and culminated in the team meeting His Royal Highness Prince Harry, who …
HMS Ocean will be moored at Greenwich and will be acting as a maritime logistic hub in support of police-led maritime security operations during…
The visit to the troops from the regiments, both of which are part of 7th Armoured Brigade (The Desert Rats), allowed the Secretary of State…
Mr Hammond was hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations) in Berlin, and his speech was…
The systems are being placed at six sites in and around London for testing with dummy missiles as part of Exercise Olympic Guardian. The nine…
Speech delivered by Secretary of State for Defence at the British Embassy, Berlin (hosted by German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)), on Wednesday 2 May 2012.
Typhoon fighter jets arrived at RAF Northolt today to take part in a major military exercise to test security for the forthcoming London Olympic Games.
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