Search Results : Ministry of Defence
Blog Post Results (1-20 of 20)
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 1 May 2013
THREE UK SOLDIERS KILLED BY HELMAND IED Three British troops have died after their armoured vehicle hit a roadside improvised explosive device in Helmand, Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says. The men, of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, died on Tuesday. Show More Summary
Estimated costs of Lady Thatcher’s funeral ceremony, policing and security costs
Estimated costs for Lady Thatcher’s funeral ceremony are around £500,000, the Cabinet Office announced today. This figure includes the costs incurred by St Paul’s Cathedral, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, the invitation printers, and staff overtime. The provisional estimate of the direct policing and security costs for the funeral are around £1.1 million. [...]
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 8 Jan 2013
FIRST GREEN-ON-BLUE ATTACK OF 2013 A British soldier has been shot dead in a suspected 'green on blue' attack by a member of the Afghan National Army, the Ministry of Defence announced early today. The soldier, from 28 Engineer Regiment, attached to 21 Engineer Regiment, was attacked at Patrol Base Hazrat in Helmand Province. Show More Summary
'Murder in Helmand': why have seven Marines been arrested?
Ministry of Defence acts after soldier claims killing of insurgent last year broke strict rules of engagement
First Post
LAST UPDATED AT 08:25 ON Fri 12 Oct 2012
SEVEN Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder following an incident in Afghanistan's Helmand province last year. Show More Summary
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 12 Oct 2012
SEVEN MARINES HELD IN MURDER INQUIRY Seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder following an incident in Afghanistan in 2011, the Ministry of Defence confirmed last night. No names were revealed and a spokesman described the incident only as an "engagement with an insurgent" in which no civilians were involved. Show More Summary
Japan's national defence report focuses on China threat
Japan has released a defensive white paper which criticises the Chinese military’s lack of transparency and describes Beijing’s response to disputes with neighbours as ‘assertive’. The Chinese foreign ministry has dismissed these claims as ‘groundless’ and ‘irresponsible’. Cue belligerent arguing from both sides over who is the most peaceful nation.
[ more › ]
MoD Confirm Olympic Missile Sites
The Ministry of Defence today confirmed that it will place anti-aircraft missiles at six points around the Olympic Park. The sites, which include residential developments, are:
Lexington Building, Fairfield Road, Bow
Fred Wigg Tower,...Show More Summary
Olympics Missile Plans Challenged By Residents
The Ministry of Defence’s plans to place missiles in various positions around the Olympics site faces a blow today, as residents of Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone go to court for an injunction to stop weapons being stuck on their roof.
Just...Show More Summary
Rolls Royce wins £1 billion nuclear submarine deal
Contract with Ministry of Defence will secure jobs and development at firm’s Derby plant One-Minute Read LAST UPDATED AT 13:38 ON Mon 18 Jun 2012 ROLLS ROYCE Holdings Plc has won a £1 billion Ministry of Defence contract to deliver reactor...Show More Summary
Cameron makes £100m U-turn on F-35 aircraft carrier jets
Humiliating turnaround for Cameron as Ministry of Defence reverts to Labour’s original plan
One-Minute Read
LAST UPDATED AT 15:00 ON Thu 10 May 2012
THE GOVERNMENT'S decision to change the type of fighter planes it is ordering for the...Show More Summary
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 29 Apr 2012
ESTATE COULD BE OLYMPIC MISSILE SITE The Ministry of Defence could place surface-to-air missiles on residential flats in an east London estate during the Olympic Games. Residents have received a leaflet informing them their estate could...Show More Summary
Missile Sites Proposed For Blackheath And Shooters Hill
The Ministry of Defence could install ground-to-air missile launchers on Blackheath and the appropriately named Shooters Hill, reports the BBC. The battery would be designed to ward off aerial terror attacks during the Olympic Games. A final decision on the location of the defences, and whether to deploy them at all, has yet to be made. Show More Summary
War grave thief convicted
A Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) investigation has resulted in the successful conviction of a diver who removed items from the protected military wreck HMS Duke of Albany. HMS Duke of Albany [Picture: via MOD] MDP detectives based at HM Naval Base Clyde began their inquiry after receiving a complaint from Navy Command. It followed [...]
Syrian Ministry of Defence website hacked
This is what you would have been greeted with this morning, if you clicked on mod.gov.sy, the Syrian Ministry of Defence website: The message to the Syrian people is that non-violent protest will win through. And they issue a warning to the Syrian army, saying that anyone issuing orders to kill women and children should [...]
About time they start finding the moles
This has taken a while, but I am glad to see the NDS has started finding some of the moles in the Afghan Security Forces. I hope this story is true. A senior defence ministry official who allegedly leaked secrets that helped the Taliban stage suicide attacks inKabul has been arrested by the Afghan Intelligence [...]
Stephen Gilbert welcomes council tax cut for armed forces
Liberal Democrat MP for mid Cornwall and backbench Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, Stephen Gilbert, has welcomed today’s announcement by the Ministry of Defence that the Council Tax relief for serving members of the Armed Forces would be doubled from 25% to 50%. Stephen Gilbert commented saying: “The brave men and women in our armed forces [...]
Experts debate the danger of drones - and the ethics of war without risk
It's fairly common for lazy journalists to invoke comparisons with Hollywood movies when discussing complicated scientific issues. But when an internal Ministry of Defence report warns that…
Churchill’s UFO cover-up - and other UK X-file tales
A slew of previously classified Ministry of Defence files relating to UFOs, going back as far as the 1950s, has been made public for the first time –…
In pictures: Sketches of UFOs among the MoD's X-files
'Photograph' of a UFO sent to the Ministry of Defence from Sweden in 1994. The Exmoor files Sketch of a Toblerone-shaped UFO seen at Annandale, West Lothian, Scotland in 1994 The Exmoor files Left:…...
Civil unrest is a shot across the bows for the ruling class
Two years ago the UK Ministry of Defence's Strategic Trends depicted an alarming futuristic scenario in which proletarianised middle-class radicals engage in revolutionary activity and violent 'flashmobs'…