5,149 source-backed defence & security facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 26 of 52.
“As we sailed through the strait, two container ships seized by the IRGC in April, at the height of the conflict, came into view. [...] Despite the ceasefire, the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas, which were flagged to Panama and Liberia r…”
“Among the highlights was an announcement by Modi that India and Japan had signed their first co-development project for the Unified Complex Radio Antenna (UNICORN), which, the PM said, will open a new chapter in the defence technology part…”
“The Oxford branch of Stand Up To Racism is calling on locals and community groups across the county to oppose the proposal, which is to house 1,250 asylum seekers in Bicester.”
“This recent round of arrests comes one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro- democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.”
“Russia fired 74 missiles and 496 drones in the attack, Ukraine’s air force said.”
“Take the Qatari-gifted Air Force One, which took its inaugural flight yesterday. Trump took the $400 million jet as a gift to taxpayers and then spent at least that much in taxpayer dollars to make it 'the world’s most luxurious plane.'”
“He told The Daily Mail: 'It's quite clear that this was a very well-planned assassination attempt. Whoever's planned this didn't care who they got, they just wanted to make sure they got him.' He added that the way the device was planted '…”
“Around a fifth of the world's oil and gas shipments pass through these waters in peacetime, making the city central to the world's economy and key to Iran's military doctrine of 'asymmetric warfare' designed to fight more powerful adversar…”
“In all, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi's visit to India yielded 16 outcomes.”
“The Oxford branch of "Stand Up To Racism" is calling on locals and community groups across the county to oppose the proposal, which is to house 1,250 asylum seekers in Bicester.”
“In a southern Russian village, it is the third day of artillery and rocket attacks on Chechens holding hostages.”
“Damage was recorded in 30 locations across the city, mainly residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration. Some 20 residential buildings were damaged, Interio…”
“Moody’s economist Mark Zandi says the Iran war has already cost the typical U.S. household about $1,000 through higher gas, diesel, airfare, groceries, military spending, and borrowing costs.”
“The Government has pledged to end the use of asylum hotels before the next general election by increasing the use of dispersed accommodation and former military sites.”
“According to the Red Crescent, 261 people, including civilians and military personnel, have been killed in Hormuzgan province, of which Bandar Abbas is the capital.”
“The announcement follows Japan's relaxation under Takaichi of self-imposed restrictions on defence exports.”
“THE 200 UNITED NATIONS SOLDIERS BEING HELD, EITHER AS HOSTAGES OR HUMAN SHIELDS, BY SERB FORCES AGAINST FURTHER AIR-STRIKES BY NATO WARPLANES IN BOSNIA”
“Sybiha, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said in April that the country’s weapons factories meet up to 75% of its military’s needs.”
“Take the Qatari-gifted Air Force One, which took its inaugural flight yesterday. Trump took the $400 million jet as a gift to taxpayers and then spent at least that much in taxpayer dollars to make it “the world’s most luxurious plane.””
“Asked about £4.7 billion of unfunded spending in the Dip, skills minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told Times Radio: 'We have made some quite difficult choices to redistribute, for example, capital spending in order to put in place the fundin…”
“There were at least 96 separate US strikes in and around Bandar Abbas between 28 February and when the ceasefire came into effect on 8 April, according to data compiled by the monitor Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled).”
“The merchant vessel, carrying 21 crew members, including one Indian national, reported damage to the bridge superstructure and adjoining compartments.”
“The Bosnian Serbs must withdraw artillary and mortars from their stranglehold positions on Sarajevo by February 21st or face NATO air strikes.”
“A report earlier this year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank, estimated that up to 1.8 million soldiers have been killed, wounded or gone missing on both sides, with Russian troops accounting for most of t…”
“Iran's Fars news agency reported that three people were killed and seven injured when two missiles hit the building.”
“Likewise on June 19, the same Naval warship INS Trikand responded to a distress call from MV Fareeda 5 on a likely piracy attempt in the Western Indian Ocean and undertook prompt action to investigate and deter it.”
“killed 19 U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia this summer”
“More than 14,000 military and police personnel have been deployed to the area”
“Some 28 of those earning over £150,000 are in the Ministry of Defence”
“Earlier on May 27, another Indian warship, INS Kolkata, foiled a suspected piracy attempt in the vicinity of merchant vessel MV Mashallah 1 in the Western Indian Ocean.”
“THIS WEEK'S NATO BOMBING CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERB MILITARY POSITIONS”
“Earlier this year, the International Test Pilots School of Canada ordered six Italian-made M-346 fighter jets for a new NATO training centre in North Bay.”
“A 21-gun royal salute took place at Nottingham Castle at 1100 BST to honour the 1st Royal Horse Artillery Regiment and the South Notts Hussars.”
“Indian warships and maritime patrol assets have responded to and thwarted over a dozen critical piracy incidents and hijacking attempts in the last one year alone, solidifying the Indian Navy's role as a primary first responder in the Indi…”
“He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals.”
“Nottinghamshire's Lord Lieutenant Sir Andrew Buchanan also presented operational medals to six soldiers.”
“To augment the operation, an Indian Navy P-8I maritime patrol aircraft was deployed to undertake aerial surveillance and reconnaissance in the area, enhancing maritime domain awareness and supporting the anti-piracy response.”
“An estimated 100,000 Rwandans have been killed in tribal massacres and clashes between troops and civilians since the beginning of the month”
“Some 20 planes bombed dozens of targets in the Kurdish northern autonomous region, Turkish television station NTV reported.”
“Ottawa hopes to announce around 10 founding members for the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), a new institution designed to raise as much as £100 billion ($133 billion) in low-cost financing for defence and resilience …”
“SHILTS started the book in 1988, before the current debate about gays in the military.”
“The explosion happened outside the Army base which houses MI5's Northern Ireland headquarters on 12 April.”
“All 32 NATO members have now reached or exceeded the alliance's long-standing target of spending 2% of GDP on defence”
“Three top Air Force officials have been relieved of command in connection with the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other people in Croatia.”
“A total of 295 UK military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.”
“European members and Canada recorded their largest-ever annual increase in military expenditure.”
“The Air Force says the brigadier general and two colonels responsible for the 86th Airlift Wing have lost the confidence of their commander, because of facts revealed in the probe of the plane crash.”
“The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to name St Athan's West Camp Churchill Lines.”
“Moscow launched an 11-hour barrage of drones and missiles against Kyiv, killing at least 21 civilians and injuring more than 90, according to Ukrainian officials.”
“After Iran's attack on the first ship, the U.S. then struck multiple drone, missile and radar sites in Iran.”
“However, Churchill personally intervened at that point to prevent troops being dispatched, instead sending 270 police reinforcements from the London Metropolitan force.”
“U.S. 999 Billion Dollars”
“Then Iran fired into Bahrain and Kuwait in retaliation.”
“while the authorities fortified Pontypridd with 400 policemen, two troops of infantry and a squadron of the 18th Hussars.”
“Nato's European members and Canada collectively raised defense spending by 20 percent in real terms in 2025 to $574 billion, the largest single-year increase in the alliance's history.”
“Despite the deal, authorities in Lebanon and Israel say there were multiple deaths in Lebanon, and one Israeli soldier was killed.”
“Here, the troops open fired and two men were shot dead on the banks of the railway.”
“Germany broke its constitutional debt to commit $114 billion.”
“The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier”
“Six teams from the the Army, Navy and RAF will Kitesurf from Alderney to Poole across the English Channel.”
“the European defense market, which US firms are aggressively positioning in, could be worth $1.14 trillion by 2035.”
“More than a million Rwandan refugees—and an unknown number of Zairean citizens — have been forced to flee fighting between the Zairean army and Rwandan-backed Zairean rebels.”
“Two soldiers from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment have been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.”
“UNICORN was jointly developed by three Japanese companies, NEC Corporation (lead contractor), Sampa Kogyo K.K., and The Yokohama Rubber Co, Ltd, and is currently fitted on the JMSDF's Mogami-class stealth frigates (FFM), of which Japan has…”
“send 20,000 U.S. soldiers”
“Andry Rajoelina seized power in an army-backed coup in March 2009”
“By stacking these elements and enclosing them in a low-RCS radome, the mast itself, historically one of the brightest radar returns on any warshiP, becomes much harder for an adversary to detect and classify.”
“60,000-strong NATO force”
“Most of Canada's 2,800 troops in the country are based in the south, where Nato has been fighting the Taliban.”
“The Mogami-class already achieves a radar cross-section estimated at two orders of magnitude smaller than a conventionally designed frigate of the same size”
“the aid will not reach the one million Rwandan refugees displaced by warfare there.”
“About 50 people living nearby were moved from their homes to a community centre for almost five hours while an Army bomb team examined the area.”
“The agreement follows a Memorandum of Implementation signed in November 2024 at the Embassy of India in Tokyo for the co-development of UNICORN masts for fitment onboard Indian Navy ships.”
“NPR'S Martha Raddatz reports on yesterday's terrorist truck bombing at a military complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia which killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds more.”
“He entered the US Army in June 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July last year.”
“Both transfers flow from Tokyo's April 2014 overhaul of the 'Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology', which replaced the near-total ban on arms exports that had been in force since 1967.”
“President Clinton has agreed in principle to contribute as many as several thousand US troops to a proposed multinational effort to get food and medicine to about a million refugees in eastern Zaire.”
“The Philippines received air-surveillance radars under a November 2023 contract, Japan's first defence equipment export since the Second World War.”
“once such a force is established, perhaps one thousand American troops would deploy in Zaire”
“The system houses antennas for tactical data link, TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation System), communications, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), and Electronic Support Measures (ESM) for radar and communication interception. By stacking thes…”
“The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier and have never been published before.”
“According to Fire Point, the FP-9 is designed to have a range of up to 850 kilometres, allowing it to target military infrastructure far beyond the front line.”
“NATO ministers announced on Tuesday that a summit will be held July 8th and 9th to extend the first invitations to former Soviet-bloc countries”
“The missile is expected to carry an 800-kilogram warhead, travel at speeds of around 2,200 metres per second (over Mach 6), reach an altitude of up to 70 kilometres, and achieve an accuracy of around 20 metres CEP.”
“the new countries could achieve membership by 1999.”
“The missile is expected to travel at speeds of around 2,200 metres per second (over Mach 6), reach an altitude of up to 70 kilometres, and achieve an accuracy of around 20 metres CEP.”
“Norma Storch (mother) is married to actor Larry Story who starred in the TV comedy F-Troop in the mid 1960's.”
“the Russian defence ministry said the missile was intercepted alongside seven guided bombs and 602 fixed-wing drones.”
“the one-year-long NATO mission is nearly half over.”
“Speaking in June, the company's chief designer Denys Shtilerman said the missile could begin flight tests this summer or by early autumn after the completion of engine development.”
“Bloomberg added that if confirmed, it would represent the first known combat use of a Ukrainian ballistic missile. The claim comes just days after Ukrainian defence company Fire Point announced that its FP-9 ballistic missile was approachi…”
“According to a Bloomberg report, the Russian defence ministry said the missile was intercepted alongside seven guided bombs and 602 fixed-wing drones.”
“According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia launched 74 missiles, including 24 ballistic missiles, alongside 496 drones in what it described as a 'massive combined strike'.”
“Damage was reported at around 30 locations across the capital, with more than 20 residential buildings affected.”
“Following one of Russia's largest aerial attacks on Ukraine's capital this year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed his appeal to the United States to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defence missiles under licence…”
“Ukraine is currently believed to operate around eight Patriot air defence batteries supplied by the United States and its allies. However, Zelenskyy has repeatedly said the country needs about 25 Patriot systems to provide effective nation…”
“The PAC-3 interceptor is approximately 5 metres long, 25 centimetres in diameter and weighs around 220 kilograms. It can reach speeds of up to 6,100 km/h.”
“The PAC-3 CRI variant has a publicly stated interception range of up to 45 kilometres and an engagement altitude of up to 12 kilometres against ballistic missiles.”
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed his appeal to the United States to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defence missiles under licence, according to AFP.”
“The two countries also expanded their defence cooperation by signing an agreement for their first joint defence co-development project. The initiative, involving the Naval Radio Antenna 'Unicorn', marks the first such collaboration between…”
