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RAF F-35B Lightnings, operating over Jordanian airspace, shot down uncrewed aerial systems in defence of Jordan, marking the first time a British F-35 has destroyed a target on operations.

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Footage shows U.S. forces conducting night flight operations aboard USS Iwo Jima while underway in the Caribbean. Filmed weeks before the Maduro raid, it offers a useful insight into the kind of low-light aviation training routinely conducted.

RFA Lyme Bay, converted into a Mine Countermeasures mothership, has sailed into the Red Sea with HMS Dragon, FGS Mosel and FGS Fulda. The Task Group is heading to the Strait of Hormuz to help restart safe merchant shipping through the Gulf. Photographer LPhot Damien Bye.

The RAF has integrated APKWS onto Typhoon jets operating over the Middle East. The rocket system, built by BAE Systems and tested at QinetiQ ranges, went from development to combat-ready status on the platform in under two months.

In a UK military first, Army paratroopers staged through Ascension Island before jumping onto Britain's most remote territory to deliver emergency Hantavirus support to Tristan da Cunha.

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Here's the footage from the recent incident at RAF Brize Norton in which two Voyager aircraft were damaged by spray paint and crowbars by Palestine Action members. These aircraft, despite claims made by the group, aren't involved in Israeli operations.

🇬🇧 After eight months and thousands of miles, Britain’s Carrier Strike Group has returned home from Operation Highmast. HMS Prince of Wales, her escorts and the air wing are all back on UK soil, closing out the UK’s flagship deployment of twenty twenty five.

Here's a time lapse of the moment HMS Active, the second of five Type 31 Frigates being built by Babcock at their yard in Rosyth, was rolled out of the build hall.

🇬🇧 The UK’s DragonFire laser has shot down high-speed drones in new trials, with above-the-horizon tracking and pinpoint accuracy at a kilometre. A £316m contract now pushes the system toward a Type 45 destroyer by 2027.

Speaking at the Drone Summit in Latvia, Al Carns, Minister for the Armed Forces, warned drones are the "perfect tool of hybrid warfare" and called on allies to innovate faster. "If you want peace to hold, you must prepare for war." 🇬🇧🇱🇻🇺🇦 #DroneSummit

🇩🇪 Europe’s largest munitions plant has opened in Unterlüß, Germany. Run by Rheinmetall, the 30,000m² site is set to produce 350,000 artillery shells a year by 2027, a major boost to NATO’s industrial firepower.

British tanks and rocket artillery open fire in Estonia as UK-led #NATO forces complete a five-day live-fire exercise in winter conditions.

The vessel being pitched by Babcock and SAAB for the Swedish Lulea frigate competition is described as a 124-metre frigate with a steel hull and lightweight composite superstructure, with a displacement of around 4,650 tonnes. Here's what the design looks like!

NATO is racing to get counter-drone technology into allied hands faster than ever. This week, George Allison was at Latvia's Sēlija test range, 150km from the Russian border, to see how. #NATO #Drones #Latvia

The UK Defence Journal was onboard HMS Prince of Wales to witness preparations for her global deployment. Here's George Allison's report from onboard, including interviews with the Captain and crew members on the warship. #CSG25

In Methil, Fife today, George Allison of the UK Defence Journal spoke to Donato Martínez, CEO of Navantia UK, and Richard Baker MP about the christening of Seahorse and the transformation underway at the yard.

Steel cut on HMS Bulldog, HMS Active rolled out, and fresh US submarine work confirmed. There’s a lot going on in Rosyth right now, George Allison was there. 🚢

Earlier this week, the UK Defence Journal went airside at Glasgow Prestwick Airport to speak to the pilot of a Spitfire participating in a UK-wide tour marking 90 years since the type first took to the skies, raising funds for RAF charities. Here's our report.

🇬🇧✈️🇯🇵 History made at sea - a British F-35B Lightning has landed on a Japanese warship for the first time, during #OpHighmast. These combined carrier operations are something few nations can match. #CSG25

🚢 Eight Type 26 frigates are already on the books at BAE’s Clyde yards, now a £10bn UK–Norway agreement will add at least five more. Here's George Allison’s report.