Bullets used by the British Army could soon be manufactured abroad. Royal Ordnance, which produces explosives, ammunition and small arms, could be closed with the Ministry of Defence using European firms instead. Royal Ordnance traces its history back to 1560 and the Royal Gunpowder Fac

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11 social networking sites, including YouTube and MySpace have been blocked by the US Department of Defense due to an increase in bandwidth usage. This 'recreational' usage "impacts our official DoD network and bandwidth availability, while posing a significant operational security chal

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Southern Thai Muslims may have been trained by militants from Indonesia to, among other tactics, decapitate. This announcement came from an army spokesman on monday following the death of another Buddhist man, wh owas shot and beheaded. "They also used video clips of beheadings in the M

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Blame has been placed on the military for failings in the Lebanon War by Israli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, according to Thursday's testimony. "I think the army disappointed itself to a large degree," he told the Winograd commission, the body investigating last year's fruitless conflict with Leba

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The Indian Army, world's second biggest, will receive 124 Arjun Main Battle Tanks, solely designed and developed by the country's defence scientists, by 2009. An official in the Indian Defence Ministry said that five Arjun tanks have already been handed over to the Indian Army in 2005 a

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Seven civilians were killed in an ambush in Uganda, endangering a ceasefire that has halted two decades of civil war. The Ugandan Military has pinned the blame on the Lord's Resistance Army rebels. Army spokesman for northern Uganda Chris Magezi told Reuters that the rebels attacked thr

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Monday saw the Columbian Army seize over 25t of cocaine from a number of speedboats in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the western Colombian province of Choco. "Not all the drug has been counted at this time, but it is clearly more than 25t," said spokesman Angel Molina, making this

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Sir Richard Dannatt, chief of general staff, has said that Prince harry will be deployed to Iraq with his unit, although the decision is under constant review. Following the death of 12 British soldiers in April, it was suspected that the Prince would not see service with his men of the

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Iraq Army Officials announced that the army would aim to recruit and train a further 20,000 soldiers during 2007. 25 battalions and two division headquarters would be created with the help of the US military. "Our goal is to reduce the dependence and increase the self-reliance," US Lt.

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Defense ministers from China and Gabon met on Wednesday and presented a united front, stressing the importance of close military ties. In a meeting with the visiting Gabonese Minister of State and Defence Ali Bongo, Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan said the two armed forces have a

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