George Allison

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract worth just over £135 million to maintain the Royal Navy's Spearfish and Sting Ray torpedoes, placed without competition on the grounds that no other company is capable of doing the work, according to a contract award notice published by the Ministry of Defence.

More focused targeting of Ukrainian political figures is among the escalation options being examined by Western analysts as they weigh whether President Putin will seek to escalate the war or negotiate, according to a Western official.

Russian ballistic missiles remain by far the primary threat in Russia's deep-strike campaign against Ukraine, driven by shortfalls in Patriot interceptor stocks, according to a Western official.

Russia is broadly replacing its battlefield losses through recruitment but is not generating the mass needed to change the course of the war, and

Ukraine has expanded its long-range strike campaign to include warehouses belonging to the Russian retail giant Wildberries, an additional target set being prosecuted alongside its continued campaign against Russia's oil system, according to a Western official.

The US Navy Virginia-class attack submarine USS Oregon arrived at His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, for a scheduled port visit.

The Ministry of Defence has set out its approach to procurement speed, technology transfer with Ukraine and support for smaller firms, in response

The US Navy has released images of an Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II escorting the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska on the surface in the Pacific, part of an armed airborne escort exercise.

Three of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's four Kilo class submarines have been fitted with counter-drone cages over their conning towers, and satellite

Nineteen medics from Portsmouth Flotilla ships have completed the first Combat Medic Course to be taught partly at sea, with practical training carried out aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth.