Defence News Home Page http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/Defencenewshome.htm en-GB Ministry of Defence, UK, © 2012 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:38:00 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 15:03:29 GMT Ministry of Defence 60 http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Images/site-logo.gif http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Home A wounded Royal Navy medic who saved the lives of four colleagues after they were seriously injured in Afghanistan by a grenade attack in 2011 received a Military Cross this week from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/RoyalNavyMedicReceivesMilitaryCrossAtBuckinghamPalace.htm last days Wed, 16 May 2012 13:49:31 GMT {4843EA3B-1C92-46AB-9F59-DF75AA39934F} Following an open competition the Oil and Pipelines Agency (OPA) has announced the appointment of Mr Graham Ellis as Chairman. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/EquipmentAndLogistics/NewOilAndPipelinesAgencyChairmanAppointed.htm last days Wed, 16 May 2012 13:18:23 GMT {246AE70B-37F3-428C-A325-E3D86D4D39B1} Ahead of the arrival of the Olympic Flame on Friday, One Show presenter Alex Jones and Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell paid a visit to Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Cornwall yesterday and received a very challenging welcome. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/PeopleInDefence/RnasCuldroseGivestheOneShowAnOlympicChallenge.htm last days Wed, 16 May 2012 09:19:50 GMT {73936778-1688-462C-B9FD-803F11231771} Lieutenant General Adrian Bradshaw, Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, here reflects on recent visits to Helmand and eastern Afghanistan, and gains made by ISAF over the past year. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/IsafDeputyCommanderReflectsOnProgressInHelmand.htm last days Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {2455BD51-02E7-4B54-851F-E71CBBE97112} Members of the Central Band of the Royal Air Force will play a specially composed fanfare in honour of Her Majesty The Queen at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 5 June, as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/RafTrumpetersToHonourQueenWithSpecialJubileeFanfare.htm last days Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {D896BFC0-A4D6-4EA5-B68D-D7F4D6F34D7E} Members of No 2 (Tactical) Police Squadron have received their Afghanistan Operational Service Medals after returning from Helmand province. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/RafPoliceReceiveAfghanistanCampaignMedals.htm last days Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {E81E2ABC-FD2A-42D6-99BB-DE6F0B6D2814} Troops from all three Services supported thousands of teenagers this weekend taking part in the Army's 52nd Ten Tors Challenge on Dartmoor. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/TrainingAndAdventure/ArmedForcesSupportTenTorsTeenagers.htm last days Tue, 15 May 2012 10:40:02 GMT {4E200231-2449-4B69-A36B-C75879AD0F3D} A rapturous welcome greeted the ship's company of Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose on Friday, 11 May, on their return to Plymouth from a six-and-a-half-month deployment to the South Atlantic. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/HmsMontroseWelcomedHomeFromSouthAtlantic.htm last days Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {043373DB-40EE-4D4B-923A-D274C8320939} Extra funding of £400,000 will be provided for the Big White Wall online mental wellbeing service which provides support for UK Service personnel, veterans and their families. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicyAndBusiness/ExtraFundingForArmedForcesOnlineMentalHealthNetwork.htm last days Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {77AF56C0-B650-42A2-8BFB-0D92EAB49B4E} The biggest ever independent survey of British troops, which explores the relationship between Service personnel and wider society, has been published this week. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicyAndBusiness/IndependentReportStatesPublicRateArmedForcesHighly.htm last days Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {B8EA7937-42BC-435C-98CF-DCB4743494F4} The MOD is to sustain its commitment to the nuclear deterrent by continuing to invest £1bn a year in facilities at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/EquipmentAndLogistics/ModAnnouncesInvestmentInNuclearFacilities.htm last days Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {FF0EBFD6-E302-45C7-84A2-79135AC8F80E} The MOD's budget deficit has been wiped out for the first time in a generation, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced today. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicyAndBusiness/DefenceSecretaryBalancesModBudget.htm last days Mon, 14 May 2012 12:53:25 GMT {2838CECD-AF72-401B-8715-C66521D33933} Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand province, where British forces operate, has now entered the transition process whereby responsibility for security will be handed over to Afghan forces. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/FinalHelmandDistrictInUkOperationalAreaEntersTransitionProcess.htm last days Mon, 14 May 2012 09:12:10 GMT {E99B8A7A-331A-4EB6-A000-4BA198B93886} It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Corporal Brent John McCarthy, from the Royal Air Force, and Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday 12 May 2012. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/CorporalBrentJohnMccarthyAndLanceCorporalLeeThomasDaviesKilledInAfghanistan.htm last days Mon, 14 May 2012 08:17:40 GMT {159FE19F-F515-4A9A-B2E8-93EF0A2B9573} It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that two British servicemen, one soldier from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards and one airman from the Royal Air Force, were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday 12 May 2012. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/SoldierFrom1stBattalionWelshGuardsAndAirmanFromTheRafKilledInAfghanistan.htm last days Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {4B6B04FE-2785-4B04-96BF-192DF294A874} Service personnel saluted Prince Charles in Edinburgh this week during a military parade through the Scottish capital to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/TroopsSalutePrinceCharlesAtJubileeParade.htm last days Fri, 11 May 2012 13:14:05 GMT {C0A4C59B-C2FB-43DC-94D8-85B0B00915C9} More than 1,000 members of the Armed Forces were at the forefront of the annual State Opening of Parliament ceremony which took place in London on Wednesday 9 May 2012. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/ArmedForcesLeadStateOpeningOfParliamentCeremony.htm last days Fri, 11 May 2012 09:47:31 GMT {819B1356-554D-43B9-84BA-50D36BCDE202} Final preparations are underway for the nation to come together to celebrate 2012's Armed Forces Day. Report by Lorraine McBride. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/ArmedForcesDayPreparationsUnderway.htm last days Fri, 11 May 2012 09:15:11 GMT {28ED9089-8360-402E-AC9B-E5867BBC9DEC} Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards has written in today's Daily Telegraph why the MOD's decision to use the short take-off and vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter to deliver the UK's Carrier Strike capability is the right one. Here follows the full article. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/EquipmentAndLogistics/CdsExplainsReasonsForChangesToJointStrikeFighterCapability.htm last days Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {5E78ED80-3E73-4BFC-8B1C-552C56A401DC} A Search and Rescue crew from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall conducted a daring rescue of an injured fisherman earlier this week. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/NightScrambleForNavySearchAndRescueCrew.htm last days Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {BB779427-9FB5-418C-8BE4-2AB17DEF4F1D} Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced that plans to deliver Carrier Strike capability will now be executed using a different type of Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jet than was planned. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/EquipmentAndLogistics/ModAnnouncesChangeOfJointStrikerFighterJet.htm last days Thu, 10 May 2012 08:23:26 GMT {ADCA8D21-1BCC-4798-BFB4-D6280FA53065} On Saturday 5 May, East Midlands Universities Air Squadron (EMUAS) exercised the Freedom of Nottingham by parading through the city centre 'with bayonets fixed and flags flying'. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/EastMidlandsUniversitiesAirSquadronExercisesFreedomOfNottingham.htm last days Wed, 09 May 2012 13:58:07 GMT {DE68F2A0-BA7D-483B-8172-0D814077DCE3} HMS St Albans has spent five days in Iceland to pay her respects to those mariners who took part in the convoys to the Soviet Union when sailors braved air and U-boat attack to deliver crucial aid 70 years ago. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/HmsStAlbansHonoursArcticHeroes70YearsOn.htm last days Wed, 09 May 2012 13:22:25 GMT {66179852-5E84-4130-B6D3-64995E32FD9C} A 2,000-strong crowd turned out to see Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall last week as she received the Freedom of Entry to Thame on behalf of RAF Halton. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/RafHaltonCelebratesFreedomOfThame.htm last days Wed, 09 May 2012 09:51:25 GMT {3FBD1D50-469F-442D-ADE2-610E883008C9} More than 750 Royal Marines and supporting units, together with three warships and Sea King and Chinook helicopters, have waged war in and around Galloway Forest Park in a week-long exercise to prepare 45 Commando for front line duties. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/TrainingAndAdventure/45CommandoTrainForRapidReactionDuties.htm last days Wed, 09 May 2012 09:37:23 GMT {435AC4FF-E8F5-400B-9272-E839ECFCD2A8} In April, Royal Navy pilots James Birchall and André Milne completed what has been described as 'the toughest foot-race on Earth' - the gruelling Marathon des Sables race across the Sahara Desert. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/TrainingAndAdventure/NavalOfficersFlyHighInSeaOfSand.htm last days Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT {B3B97C2D-D59C-42CC-8126-027E5910BE62} One of the two biggest warships ever built for the Royal Navy has taken another step towards completion with the joining of two huge sections. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/EquipmentAndLogistics/HugeSectionsOfNewNavyCarrierJoinedTogether.htm last days Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:32:30 GMT {73D9E3B9-106D-446A-89E4-C31D0661DF13}