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Tuesday, 29 May 2012
In the run-up to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration weekend, a team at the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment (HCMR) are working hard behind the ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
To mark the unique occasion of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, Fortnum and Mason is presenting Armed Forces personnel on operational deployments with t...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Working closely with Afghan security forces, soldiers of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment have made a considerable discovery of insurgent narc...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Royal Navy and Army rowers have taken a step closer to the London 2012 Olympics with gold medals at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne....
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex has made his first visit to the Reinforcements Training and Mobilisation Centre (RTMC) at Chilwell in Nottingham...
Monday, 28 May 2012
Representatives of the Isle of Anglesey County Council signed the Armed Forces Community Covenant last week at RAF Valley, becoming the 40th county to...
Monday, 28 May 2012
A new £350m MOD contract to maintain the Royal Air Force's Hercules aircraft will support 500 UK jobs....
Monday, 28 May 2012
Soldiers based at the British Gurkha Camp at Pokhara in Nepal have been helping the local community cope with recent flash floods....
Monday, 28 May 2012
An RAF helicopter crew battled through fog last week to transfer a seriously ill child from Norfolk to London's Great Ormond Street children's hospita...
Friday, 25 May 2012
Held at Aldershot Town Football Club’s home ground, the EBB Stadium, on Wednesday 23 May, the match saw the NATO allies pitched against each…...
Friday, 25 May 2012
The international community will not abandon the Afghan people was the clear message sent from the NATO Chicago Summit this week, UK Foreign Secretary...
Friday, 25 May 2012
More than 200 Falkland Islanders and members of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands gathered at San Carlos in the Falkland Islands on …...
Friday, 25 May 2012
The Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Ocean arrived in her 'spiritual home' of Sunderland....
Friday, 25 May 2012
The Flame arrived in the UK last week at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall, and, after being transferred to Land’s End by a Royal…...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
RAF Linton-on-Ouse is using its fleet of Tucano aircraft to help train pilots and Army controllers for front line duties. ...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
A new C-17 transport aircraft has been unveiled today by the Defence Secretary at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire....
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Re-enacting a gesture made by her father, King George VI, in 1936, HM The Queen has seen fit to celebrate the Commonwealth by inviting the Royal…...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Soldiers are relearning their urban warfare skills in a new course launched this week at Copehill Down, Salisbury Plain, while a newly built…...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Speech delivered by Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology Peter Luff at Malvern College, on Thursday 24 May 2012....
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Speech by Peter Luff Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology....
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Exactly 69 years to the day after the famous Dambusters Raid, the people of the Cornish fishing town of Porthleven, with the support of personnel…...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Two-hundred soldiers from Kineton military base have marched through Warwick to celebrate being granted the Freedom of the Town....
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Her Majesty The Queen has written a letter of thanks to the Armed Forces for the Parade and Muster for her Diamond Jubilee....
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
'Welcome Home' banners, applause and celebrations greeted some 100 soldiers from H Squadron of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR) when they returned ...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia have reached agreement for the UK to support a programme that will provide the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) with c...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Commander Sarah West, aged 40, joins Type 23 frigate HMS Portland in Rosyth today, becoming the first woman in the Royal Navy’s history to be…...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
A new animated video is being released today to raise awareness of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. ...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is once again hosting the international Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation (CWD) conference....
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The first Successor submarine is due to be delivered in 2028, replacing the Vanguard Class submarines which currently carry the UK’s nuclear…...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Speech by Sir Nick Harvey, Minister for the Armed Forces....