5,149 source-backed defence & security facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 11 of 52.
“Ukrainian drone units destroyed four more vessels belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” of sanctions-busting tankers, bringing the total to 205 since the operation began July 6, Robert Brovdi, commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, said …”
“claiming to have knocked out three American F-35s”
“Eight people, including three children, have died during a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine, according to local officials.”
“profit for the first half of the year amounted to more than £1bn”
“£8.4billion funding boost”
“Jordan's air defenses shot down five missiles launched from Iran.”
“Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 258 Ukrainian drones overnight.”
“two tankers with oil for India slipped out this week after going “dark””
“Russia had launched more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones at the country overnight.”
“Revenue in the first half of the year was £14.6bn compared to £13.6bn at the same time last year”
“four new Dreadnought class submarines”
“three people were killed and two were wounded in a strike on the island of Qeshm”
“Thursday’s attacks on Wildberries warehouses brought to 14 the number of the retailer’s depots struck by Ukrainian drones in under two weeks.”
“The United States has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles”
“caused a 10m-wide (33ft) crater”
“Prime Minister said that health, social care and young people’s employment must take priority before any commitment to spend three per cent of GDP on defence”
“22,000 defence apprenticeships by 2035”
“killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers”
“The US Army said the contract converts a previous one-year, $4.7 billion agreement awarded in April into a seven-year procurement framework covering fiscal years 2026 to 2032”
“All the indications are that it was a Russian Kh-101 ballistic missile”
“Burnham was asked at a press conference on Wednesday about his commitment to defence spending, a move that would require at least £9bn more a year”
“minimum three per cent on GDP on defence by 2030”
“approximately 7 million barrels of crude oil per day”
“According to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the US military currently has fewer than 1,000 Patriot interceptors”
“about 100km (62 miles) from the border with Ukraine”
“The Prime Minister announced he would visit a BAE Systems factory today in Barrow in the North to hail £8.4bn investment in the UK’s next nuclear deterrent submarine programme, the Dreadnought”
“3.5 per cent by 2035”
“A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least eight civilians, including children, and wounded dozens of others, officials said.”
“Lockheed Martin said the new agreement would support its plan to triple PAC-3 MSE production capacity by the end of 2030 and increase employment at its Camden, Arkansas, manufacturing facility by more than 50%, from around 1,200 workers to…”
“There were no reports of casualties in Thursday's incident”
“The report suggests that its more significant area of fraud risk comes from procurement, with the department set to spend up to £70bn on contracts in the next few years”
“about 13th in the Nato league tables on spending on defence”
“Zelenskyy said at least 10 Ukrainian regions were attacked, with dozens of homes, businesses and infrastructure facilities destroyed or damaged.”
“The company has also committed to investing $8 billion to $9 billion through 2030 to modernise more than 20 US facilities”
“A number of Russian drones and one unarmed Russian missile have landed in Poland since Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine began in February 2022.”
“Over the last four years, the department has recovered only 48p for every £1 it spent tackling fraud and economic crimes”
“Earlier this month, Marco Rubio and Dr Gorka held a 66-country summit against left-wing terror”
“Russia launched more than 70 missiles, a significant number of them ballistic, he said, along with more than 280 attack drones, of which more than 260 were intercepted.”
“Lockheed had previously announced plans to raise annual Patriot PAC-3 interceptor production to 2,000 missiles”
“Two Polish farmers were killed by a missile that landed just over the border from Ukraine in November 2022”
“26 years of my life into 16 pages”
“In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russian attack killed six people and wounded 10, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration, said.”
“Earlier this year, the US also reached a similar framework agreement with RTX, Raytheon's parent company, to increase annual production of Tomahawk cruise missiles from around 60 missiles to as many as 1,000”
“about 20 objects were seen close to Polish airspace overnight”
“In Kyiv, Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic missiles, killing a 31-year-old man and wounding two others, the National Police press service said.”
“Russia fired more than 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, and over 280 attack drones overnight, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
“Poland's military detected the object at about 03:40 on Thursday (01:40 GMT)”
“A cruise missile attack struck the western city of Lviv, wounding 34 people, including three children ages 6, 13 and 15, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv regional military administration.”
“The deadliest strike hit the Dnipropetrovsk region, where six people, including a six-year-old girl and boys aged 11 and 17, were killed after a ballistic missile destroyed a home.”
“Air raid sirens blared in Lublin and Krasnystaw further to the south-east because of the Russian airstrikes that killed eight people in neighbouring Ukraine”
“Elsewhere, one person was killed in a drone strike in the neighbouring Poltava region, while a 31-year-old man died in a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv.”
“Residents in Tarnawa Kolonia reported hearing a loud bang at about 04:00 and police found the crash site about an hour later”
“It also claimed to have intercepted 258 Ukrainian drones overnight as Kyiv continued its long-range strikes inside Russian territory.”
“equating to 53% of Gaza's territory.”
“The unidentified object crashed in an undeveloped area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia in Poland's eastern Lublin province, around 90 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.”
“the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) controlled more than 60%.”
“Ukraine’s Air Force confirmed the loss of an F‑16 fighter jet on July 29 after the aircraft suffered an in‑flight emergency during a combat mission.”
“The barriers now stretch more than 42km (26 miles) and cover 85% of Israel's Yellow Line, with the longest section already 13.8km (8.5 miles).”
“Denmark pledging 19 aircraft”
“One section of the embankment near the al-Mawasi camp is more than 1.5km beyond where the Yellow Line was originally mapped.”
“the Netherlands 42”
“Another section in Khan Younis is positioned more than 500m over it.”
“Belgium has promised an undisclosed number of aircraft to be transferred to Ukraine, even claiming its entire fleet of 53 would be made available”
“The IDF says it is working to 'clearly and visually mark the location of the Yellow Line on the ground' to 'reduce friction'.”
“The Netherlands supplied the first batch of 18 aircraft in December 2023”
“The Israeli military told the BBC their 'defensive posture' includes 'a security zone, a physical barrier, intelligence capabilities, technological means, and operational activity by IDF troops'.”
“By May 2025, the Netherlands had completed delivery of 24 aircraft”
“These measures are intended to prevent infiltrations and hostile activity, and to protect both the troops and surrounding communities.”
“President Donald Trump had agreed to grant Ukraine licences to manufacture Patriot missiles”
“To the east of the central city of Deir al-Balah, families living on farmland told the BBC they were given two days' notice by the Israeli military before the area was razed.”
“US and Israel expended 1,700 Patriot missiles in the opening weeks of the war”
“Satellite images show tank tracks and destroyed structures in the area, with an olive grove more than 500m beyond the Yellow Line apparently torn down.”
“Russia now produces an estimated 1,440 ballistic missiles annually, outpacing America’s 650 Patriot missie production”
“Verified video shows three yellow blocks recently placed there, the furthest of which is more than 300m from the Yellow Line mapped after the ceasefire.”
“United States on Wednesday cleared funding for Patriot missies worth $60 billion”
“The founder of intelligence analysis firm MAIAR, Tony Reeves, analysed satellite images and estimated that one section of the embankments in Gaza was up to 7m tall.”
“Russian missile strikes on Kyiv, which killed at least one civilian”
“In June, days before beginning construction of the barrier near the southernmost city of Rafah, Israeli troops destroyed structures and rows of greenhouses in its path, satellite images show.”
“Russia launched a wave of overnight air strikes across Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, including one in Kyiv.”
“By July a barrier had been constructed nearby and many more buildings were destroyed.”
“In the western city of Lviv, near the Polish border, rescue workers searched through the debris after Russian missiles damaged two apartment buildings and injured 15 people, according to local officials.”
“In July alone, satellite imagery shows scores more buildings had been destroyed beyond the Yellow Line in Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, Zeitoun, and in the northern towns of Jabalia and Beit Lahia.”
“in Zelenskyy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, six more people lost their lives after what local officials said was a direct strike by a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile.”
“Fourteen new positions have been established since the October ceasefire, including two currently under construction, while a further seven set up before the ceasefire have been paved or extended.”
“Retired Israeli brigadier general Assaf Orion, a senior researcher at Israel's Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), said the construction of barriers and bases suggests 'the IDF is preparing for a long stay along the Yellow Line,…”
“Dr Andreas Krieg, a security expert from King's College London, said the BBC's findings indicate that 'Israel is turning the Yellow Line from a temporary withdrawal boundary into a de facto internal border'.”
“Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire.”
“Israel moves Yellow Line deeper into Gaza, satellite images show.”
“On Wednesday, Japan's defence minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced the delivery of 300 air conditioners to Kumamoto, with 150 of the units bound for evacuation centres.”
“Seven people, including two children, have died during a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine, according to local officials.”
“Two girls, aged 5 and 12, were among the six killed in a village near the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih when a ballistic missile hit a private house, a local official said.”
“The project to replace existing nuclear submarines will receive £8.4bn to support progress towards getting the new vessels ready for service.”
“The government says the spending on the UK's nuclear defence currently supports around 47,000 British jobs – and is forecast to rise to 65,000 by 2030, including 22,000 apprenticeships by 2035.”
“The project has taken 20 years to get to this stage and was first announced in 2006 by the then Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair.”
“A decade later, in 2016, MPs formally approved building the new submarines.”
“The plan set out £63.6bn over the next four years for what is called the Defence Nuclear Enterprise.”
“The bulk of the money (£47bn) will go on keeping the nuclear submarines in operation, continuing with the Dreadnoughts, starting work on what might replace them in 30 years' time, and constructing several other new submarines and upgrading…”
“The Dreadnought-class submarines will replace the UK's four Vanguard-class vessels that have been in operation since 1992, carrying Trident missiles to provide a nuclear deterrent.”
“public procurement process, used to decide how to spend taxpayer cash, will favour companies offering 45-day work placements.”
“The submarines produced in Barrow will protect Britain for decades to come, and the 47,000 jobs and apprenticeships will change lives both in this town and in dozens of places like it," he said prior to his visit.”
