Royal Navy ignored warning of Iranian attack
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 […]
Articles by Tim Ripley
Royals fly free of cuts to get new jets
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 […]
Ministry of Defence sinks £2bn sub-hunter jet deal
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. […]
Chinese ‘spy’ tried to get into Queen’s coach
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 […]
British sniper rifles used against Assad rebels
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 […]
Americans in frame to build new Trident submarines?
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 squadrons will double to face Isis and Russian threat
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 […]
Battle of Britain scramble will be largest since 1945
A mass formation of nearly 50 Spitfires and Hurricanes — about 70% of the iconic fighters still flying worldwide — will take to the skies over […]
Dispute threatens to capsize £4bn Clyde warship deal
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 […]
Srebrenica, twenty years later
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 […]