With 2015/6 seeing the culmination of the rebasing programme, defence infrastructure has had to grow to accommodate the arrival of many more troops and their families. The Rebasing programme will see some of the biggest troop movements from Germany, with some 5,000 personnel being relocated to bases across Britain – including ...
Queen Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh received their Long Service and Good Conduct medals on Tuesday, following an extension of the awards to all Armed Forces, including those ranked as military officers. The award recognises the good conduct of personnel over a 15 year period, and now extends to cover ...
Work has recently been undertaken by a team from 33 Engineer Regiment to find and destroy unexploded WWII munitions on the Solomon Islands. As part of Operation Render Safe more than 800kg of unexploded munitions have been destroyed by the team, who are normally based at Carver Barracks in Saffron Walden, ...
General Dynamics Land Systems UK has successfully completed an additional live firing test for AJAX, the British Army’s new armoured fighting vehicle, at a range in West Wales. The testing, which took place throughout July and August, involved both the turreted AJAX variant and the ARES variant. It focused on generating ...