Service personnel will be able to apply for enhanced flexible working opportunities following the Armed Forces (Flexible Working) Bill becoming law. The measures, which have now achieved Royal Assent, will allow some military personnel to serve part-time for defined periods. Consultation within the Armed Forces has found that personnel want more choice ...
Pristine uniforms have helped make Britain’s Armed Forces the envy of the wider world. And yet, the efforts of our Army tailors are so often overlooked. Defence Online finds out more about their vital contribution to the UK military. To a certain extent, the master tailor is the unsung hero of ...
The UK’s best and brightest junior engineers and scientists have drafted a series of futuristic submarine concepts at the behest of the Royal Navy, which mimic real-life marine creatures and radically change the way underwater warfare might look 50 years from now. A crewed mothership shaped like a manta ray, unmanned ...
The UK MOD is facing tough financial choices says RUSI professor Dr Peter Roberts, Director of Military Sciences. In its latest comment, the Royal United Services Institute, says that the British military is facing a ‘black hole’ of financing over the next ten years, with amounts up to £20Bn (some five ...