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About Tim Ripley
Tim Ripley has been writing on defence issues since 1990, for a wide range of British and international publications. He has reported from conflict zones in the Balkans and Middle East, as well as major defence and aerospace industry exhibitions around the world. Recent assignments include the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, the Farnborough, Paris, Dubai and Singapore Airshows, NATO Headquarters in Brussels, The Hague war crimes tribunal and the Pentagon in Washington DC. His news reporting and features have appeared in the mainstream news media (The Sunday Telegraph, The Economist, The Scotsman) as well as specialist defence publications (Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jane's Sentinel, Air Forces Monthly, Air International, Defence Helicopter, Unmanned Vehicles, Flight International, Flight Daily News, World Air Power Journal, International Air Power Review)
HMS Cornwall (F 99) transits through the Persian Gulf in 2007. Photo: US Navy

Royal Navy ignored warning of Iranian attack

December 6, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

Navy top brass failed to act on warnings of Iranian aggression, leaving British sailors vulnerable to a surprise attack that resulted in 15 of them being […]

Tim Ripley Reports

Royals fly free of cuts to get new jets

November 29, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

The RAF is planning to spend millions of pounds on a new fleet of executive jets dedicated to flying the royal family, government ministers and military […]

A P8 Poseidon. Image: Boeing

Ministry of Defence sinks £2bn sub-hunter jet deal

November 2, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

Britain’s Ministry of Defence is understood to have dropped a £2bn plan to buy a fleet of US-made submarine-hunting jets for the Royal Air Force. […]

Tim Ripley Reports

Chinese ‘spy’ tried to get into Queen’s coach

October 26, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

British and Chinese security engaged in a tense stand-off during the state visit of President Xi Jinping after a Beijing-based “spy” tried to get too close […]

Tim Ripley Reports

British sniper rifles used against Assad rebels

October 13, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

High-powered British sniper rifles made by a Portsmouth-based company, Accuracy International, are being used by marksmen loyal to the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, to attack […]

A Trident Submarine. Image: Crown Copyright

Americans in frame to build new Trident submarines?

October 4, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

Defence officials are considering the appointment of an American contractor to run the construction of Britain’s four new nuclear missile submarines. The Ministry of Defence […]

RAF Tornado

RAF squadrons will double to face Isis and Russian threat

September 20, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

The number of fast-jet squadrons is expected to double, amid fears that years of deep cuts have left the RAF too small to tackle the twin […]

Tim Ripley Reports

Battle of Britain scramble will be largest since 1945

August 16, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

A mass formation of nearly 50 Spitfires and Hurricanes — about 70% of the iconic fighters still flying worldwide — will take to the skies over […]

Computer graphic of the new type 26 Global Combat Ship. Image : BAe systems

Dispute threatens to capsize £4bn Clyde warship deal

July 20, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

A multi-billion pound deal to build a new generation of Royal Navy combat ships on the Clyde has hit stormy waters. Shipbuilders at Scotstoun and Govan […]

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Srebrenica, twenty years later

July 18, 2015 Tim Ripley 0

This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8000 people were killed in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. The mass killing was […]

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Welcome….

Welcome to the timripley.co.uk home page.

Please take the time to look through my web pages to find out more about how I can help you identify and understand key issues in the confusing and complex world of defence or enhance your existing coverage and content.

You can also find out more about my books such as Little Green Men – due for release in November 2020, Operation Aleppo, Operation Telic and Deliberate Force – and about my work as a Defence Commentator and Analyst and Photographer.

This site also includes a Terrorism Incidents Database charting major incidents since the end of World War Two through to 2004.

If you want to take matters further do not hesitate to get in touch by telephone or e-mail.

Best wishes

Tim Ripley

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Background Documents

  • Writing Operation Aleppo (PDF)
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  • Background Intelligence – the raw intelligence data used by Tim Ripley to write Operation Aleppo

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