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Prosecution case turns on a UK government deal to provide military communication networks
European missile maker MBDA signs its largest export contract ever
Programme is expected to be one of the most hotly contested procurement deals in the UK in years
First of 16 US-made Protector aircraft will enter service late next year as price rises to £1.8bn
Grant Shapps tipped among others for role that would be energy security secretary’s fifth cabinet job in past year
Defence ministry says it is reviewing progress on contract but remains committed to system having already spent £690mn
Armed forces considering plan to attract older and neurodiverse people, defence minister reveals
Minister announces he will leave PM’s cabinet at next reshuffle and quit Westminster at general election
Report into troubled £5.5bn Ajax programme identifies failings in the Ministry of Defence
Annington to appeal against ruling that upheld defence ministry’s test case to take back ownership of housing for military families
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave says probe is ‘critical’ for reputation of armed forces and the country
Defence secretary says progress made on long-delayed £5.5bn armoured vehicle procurement
Extra £5bn boost to military spending included in update to UK defence and foreign policy
Policymakers and strategists look to novelists to help envisage the tech accelerating towards us
Defence secretary says long-delayed £5.5bn programme has ‘turned a corner’ and deliveries could start in 18 months
Property company owned by Terra Firma claims attempt to unwind privatisation of £8.15bn portfolio is unlawful
General Dynamics says it is owed $1.7bn for long-delayed Ajax contract
Intervention by country’s most senior military officer regarding regimental mood ‘unprecedented’, says think-tank
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin’s assessment a rare positive in speech surveying array of global threats
Moldovan officials say more than half of the country lost electricity following barrage
Ministers say new register, welcomed by spy agencies, will deter ‘covert use of agents and proxies’
MPs warn armed forces face capability gap and Ukraine shows mistake in cutting heavy armour
Partnership with Italy and Japan announced on jet seen as critical to meeting 2035 aircraft pledge
Probe sought after BBC investigation identified 54 suspicious deaths involving one unit of UK special forces
When a huge military training zone was set up 80 years ago, residents were expelled and villages left to crumble — yet behind the barbed wire, four churches have endured
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