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Ever wondered how the Royal Navy gets the images we all end up sharing? Their photographers have made a short film about the job: Afghanistan with the Royal Marines, a Sea Viper engagement, and the long deployments in between. #WorldPhotographyDay 📸
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Chinooks from 18 and 27 Squadrons flew with 3 PARA on Exercise Greyhound Thunder at RAF Odiham, working the airfield by day and Longmoor by night against an aggressor squadron. 📷 AS1 Leah Jones.
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Footage from the UK Carrier Strike Group’s operations in the High North and Arctic during Exercise Neptune Strike 26-3, alongside NATO allies including a French destroyer. 📸 LPhot George Seymour
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An RAF C-17 Globemaster lands at Canadian Forces Station Alert, the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited settlement, during Exercise POLAR PUMA and Operation BOXTOP, just 817km from the North Pole. 📷 Cpl Tom Barnard.
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🇬🇧 Meet Brontanax: BAE Systems has unveiled the UK's first uncrewed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft at Farnborough. Designed to fly alongside Typhoon and extend combat mass at lower cost, it's set for ground testing at Warton ahead of a first flight next year. 🎥👇
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L-R RFA Tidespring, FS Aquitaine, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Duncan and HMS Somerset. UK Carrier Strike Group is under the command of NATO as it conducts NEPTUNE STRIKE 26-3, a multi-domain enhanced Vigilance Activity (eVA) focused on the High North and Arctic. Photographer LPhot George Seymour.
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For the first time, cameras have been allowed inside Exercise Virtual Warrior, the Royal Navy's secret annual command war game. @geoallison was given exclusive access to the future of how Britain trains for war at sea. Watch the full video now.
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EXCLUSIVE - UK Defence Journal can report that our office vacuum has also been replaced by a drone, this will allow for less dangerous hoovering at pace. The drone, equipped with the ability to map out a floor plan, will be multirole and fitted for, but not with, a mop head.
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Fan price soars 13,473% amid UK heat resilience fears - A Zanussi floor fan now listed on Amazon at £6,784.99, up from £49.99 a month ago, has surfaced in the middle of a heatwave that experts say the UK is still nowhere near ready for.
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RFA Lyme Bay, converted into a Mine Countermeasures mothership, has sailed into the Red Sea with HMS Dragon, FGS Mosel and FGS Fulda. The Task Group is heading to the Strait of Hormuz to help restart safe merchant shipping through the Gulf. Photographer LPhot Damien Bye.
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UK Secretary of State for Defence Dan Jarvis at the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence at NATO HQ this morning has spoken about the alliance facing a moment of challenge, watch below.
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🎥 Our look inside the latest IDV Viking, the British uncrewed ground vehicle being unveiled at #Eurosatory2026, filmed at MIRA in Nuneaton. One platform, many roles: logistics, casualty evacuation, anti-armour missiles, counter-drone, ISTAR and electronic warfare.
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Russia's shadow fleet is reacting to the seizure by British forces directed by @Keir_Starmer this morning. AIS data shows multiple sanctioned tankers altering course and turning away from UK waters in the hours since UK @Commando_Ops stormed and seized the SMYRTOS.
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Watch: Royal Marine Commandos board the sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker SMYRTOS in the Channel, in the first UK-led operation of its kind, backed by HMS Sutherland, HMS Ledbury and an RAF P-8. The vessel is now held off the south coast as investigations continue.
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Royal Marine Commandos and the National Crime Agency have boarded a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker, the SMYRTOS, in the Channel, the first UK-led operation of its kind, backed by HMS Sutherland, HMS Ledbury and a P-8. The ship is now held off the south coast.
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NATO is racing to get counter-drone technology into allied hands faster than ever. This week, @geoallison was at Latvia's Sēlija test range, 150km from the Russian border, to see how. #NATO #Drones #Latvia
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@grok analyse this response, what would he know about "real journalism" despite having no training, education or experience in the field? Explain the logic behind why he has posted this, what is he trying to do?
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Speaking at the Drone Summit in Latvia, @AlistairCarns, Minister for the Armed Forces, warned drones are the "perfect tool of hybrid warfare" and called on allies to innovate faster. "If you want peace to hold, you must prepare for war." 🇬🇧🇱🇻🇺🇦 #DroneSummit
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Recently, we were given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to one of the UK’s most advanced defence technology sites. @geoallison spoke with senior engineers and explored systems such as the ECRS Mk2 radar and the Miysis DIRCM.
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As Russian drones continue to violate Latvian airspace and NATO scrambles to respond, @geoallison heads to Latvia next week to report from a military facility where high-speed interceptor flights and electronic warfare solutions are put to the test in defence of NATO airspace.
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CEO of RAD Propulsion Daniel Hook spoke to @geoallison at #CNE2026 to discuss Axon, the company's new autonomous control system for uncrewed vessels, and RAD's growing role in naval defence.
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JFD just received CE certification for its Stealth Multi-Role rebreather. We spoke to Head of Military Diving at @JFDGlobal, Peter Laughton MBE, about what modern special operations diving actually demands. #CNE2026 🤿
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At #CNE2026, SYOS Aerospace CEO Samuel Vye talks us through the SM 300 uncrewed surface vessel, the company's growing Royal Navy partnerships, and why smaller, agile enterprises are shaping the future of maritime defence.
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At #CNE2026, @geoallison spoke to Dr Rich Drake, General Manager of @anduriltech, for the @UKDefJournal to discuss Seabed Sentry, a modular seabed sensor platform designed to provide naval forces with persistent, autonomous underwater awareness.
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Russian jet flew within SIX METRES of an RAF spy plane over the Black Sea, the most dangerous Russian intercept of a UK aircraft since 2022.
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🏴 We're on the ground at DPRTE Scotland today as Official Media Partners, while also covering CNE 2026 simultaneously. Write-ups and videos dropping across today and tomorrow. Big thanks to the team behind the scenes making it all happen.
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Good morning and welcome to #CNE2026, @geoallison is on the ground today bringing you updates and exclusive news from the show floor.
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New images taken today show Type 26 Frigates HMS Glasgow and HMS Cardiff being fitted out in BAE Systems' Scotstoun yard in Glasgow.
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The RAF has integrated APKWS onto Typhoon jets operating over the Middle East. The rocket system, built by BAE Systems and tested at QinetiQ ranges, went from development to combat-ready status on the platform in under two months.
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The RAF has deployed a new anti-drone weapon over the Middle East, built by BAE Systems and tested at QinetiQ ranges, going from development to combat operations in under two months.
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In a UK military first, Army paratroopers staged through Ascension Island before jumping onto Britain's most remote territory to deliver emergency Hantavirus support to Tristan da Cunha.
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In Methil, Fife today, @geoallison of the UK Defence Journal spoke to Donato Martínez, CEO of @Navantia_UK, and @RichardBakerMP about the christening of Seahorse and the transformation underway at the yard.
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