DefenceTalkCANADIAN FORCES BASE WAINWRIGHT, Canada: It is one of the few hours of darkness in Alberta, leaving the big grey brute in the sky without a shadow to cast. The C-130’s four turboprop engines cut through the clouds. When runway lights become visible on the horizon, he pitches his nose downward and descends. Cradled in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-uk-forces-join-canada-armys-largest-military-exercise-67579/

DefenceTalkExercise Noble Partner 16 kicked off, May 11, beginning the 14-day training featuring Soldiers assigned to 3rd Infantry Division, paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, Georgian Soldiers assigned to 4th Armor Brigade and Soldiers from the United Kingdom 3d Rifles. “We are happy to host you in Georgia and to be part of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-uk-georgian-soldiers-cultivate-capabilities-in-exercise-noble-partner-67477/

DefenceTalkThe Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced a further £472 million for the Royal Navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship program. It will allow the MOD to continue progressing the project’s demonstration phase, with additional investment for detailed design work, the purchase of essential equipment and setting up shore-based testing facilities. This demonstrates an enduring […]https://www.defencetalk.com/major-investment-boost-for-next-generation-royal-navy-ships-67159/

DefenceTalkSoldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Rifles have taken part in trials of a high-tech camouflage which has been likened to Harry Potter’s “invisibility cloak.” The material, called Vatec, can help the soldiers disappear from view and hide them from infra-red and heat-seeking equipment. During field trials in the United States, British snipers could use […]https://www.defencetalk.com/british-troops-test-invisibility-cloak-67162/

DefenceTalkAstute Class submarine HMS Artful has officially become a Commissioned Warship of the Royal Navy at a ceremony at HM Naval Base Clyde. Guest of honour at the ceremony was the submarine’s sponsor Lady Zambellas, who had named Artful in September 2013, before her launch in May 2014, in Barrow in Furness. Amanda Zambellas was […]https://www.defencetalk.com/royal-navy-commissions-astute-class-submarine-hms-artful-67123/

DefenceTalkThe British 3rd Battalion, The Rifles of the United Kingdom, and Soldiers of A Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment (Experimentation Force), partnered with the Maneuver Battle Lab to execute the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment, experimenting with a myriad of different technologies and how they can be applied to future war fighting tactics. The purpose […]https://www.defencetalk.com/british-and-us-troops-collaborate-in-technology-experiments-67018/

DefenceTalkAs the Prime Minister attends an EU summit on the migration crisis, the Royal Navy is deploying amphibious landing ship royal fleet auxiliary (RFA) Mounts Bay alongside 2 border force cutters to join the NATO mission in the Aegean Sea that aims to reduce the flow of migrants from Turkey to Europe. RFA Mounts Bay, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uk-deployment-for-nato-mission-in-aegean-sea-to-tackle-migrant-crisis-66969/

DefenceTalkThe Defence Secretary and Prime Minister visited Amiens, France where a ground-breaking new £1.54bn project was announced to build a prototype of the next generation of unmanned aircraft. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project builds on the successful £120million joint feasibility study undertaken after the last UK France Summit in 2014. At the summit, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/france-uk-future-combat-air-system-project-moves-forward-66931/

DefenceTalkThe British government is close to ordering two solar-powered high-altitude Zephyr surveillance drones from European aerospace giant Airbus, it said Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced in a statement that the deal was worth £10.6 million ($15.2 million, 14 million euros), in the first ever order for Airbus Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). “The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/britain-set-to-buy-two-zephyr-spy-drones-from-airbus-66661/

DefenceTalkA UK military training team will deploy to Nigeria as part of the ongoing efforts to train local forces to combat Boko Haram. More than 35 personnel from the Second Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment (2 R ANGLIAN), will shortly deploy to deliver infantry training to Nigerian military personnel preparing to tackle the extremist group […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uk-military-train-nigerian-forces-fighting-boko-haram-66371/