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“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”
“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.”
“In a southern Russian village, it is the third day of artillery and rocket attacks on Chechens holding hostages.”
“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 '…”
“when we came into Government, there was £54billion a year being spent on defence. Now there's £80billion a year being spent.”
“killing 13 people”
“Standing by his side, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the debate over enlargement... [context implied by preceding sentence:] 'Polish President Karol Nawrocki to strip Zelenskyy of Poland's highest honour.'”
“Damage was recorded in 30 locations across the city, mainly residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration.”
“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.”
“Nottinghamshire's Lord Lieutenant Sir Andrew Buchanan also presented operational medals to six soldiers.”
“The Bosnian Serbs must withdraw artillary and mortars from their stranglehold positions on Sarajevo by February 21st or face NATO air strikes.”
“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.”
“The plan brings us from 2.3 per cent of our GDP to 2.7 per cent, and then onwards in the next parliament to meeting our responsibilities to spend three per cent of our GDP on defence.”
“Russia used 74 missiles and 496 drones”
“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.”
“Some 20 planes bombed dozens of targets in the Kurdish northern autonomous region, Turkish television station NTV reported.”
“killed 19 U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia this summer”
“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…”
“It's a commitment to spend £15 billion through the Defence Investment Plan. It is a £15billion commitment, that is new money that I've secured over the past two weeks.”
“Damage was recorded in 30 locations across the city”
“The Philippines received air-surveillance radars under a November 2023 contract, Japan's first defence equipment export since the Second World War.”
“The explosion happened outside the Army base which houses MI5's Northern Ireland headquarters on 12 April.”
“THIS WEEK'S NATO BOMBING CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERB MILITARY POSITIONS”
“Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to boost defence spending by £15 billion is facing fresh scrutiny after Downing Street was unable to say where exactly the cuts required to pay for it will come from.”
“for the about £1billion a year over the next four or five years, we'll outline where that is coming from when we get to the Budget for that year.”
“20 residential buildings were damaged”
“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…”
“A total of 295 UK military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.”
“He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals.”
“The Prime Minister unveiled the defence investment plan earlier this week but the Government is yet to spell out where £4.7 billion will come from with a decision to be made at the autumn budget.”
“On Tuesday, outgoing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer promised an extra £15billion for defence over the course of four years as part of his delayed Defence Investment Plan.”
“deployed nearly 500 personnel and 100 units of specialized vehicles, including a helicopter”
“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.”
“The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to name St Athan's West Camp Churchill Lines.”
“An estimated 100,000 Rwandans have been killed in tribal massacres and clashes between troops and civilians since the beginning of the month”
“But questions have been raised over where the remaining £10.3 billion cuts to Whitehall spending which will fund the plan will come from after the Government was unable to provide detail.”
“This is largely funded the Defence Investment Plan, and it builds on the fact that when we came into Government, there was £54billion a year being spent on defence. Now there's £80billion a year being spent. The plan brings us from 2.3 per…”
“a hotel and two five-story residential buildings were damaged”
“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.”
“However, Churchill personally intervened at that point to prevent troops being dispatched, instead sending 270 police reinforcements from the London Metropolitan force.”
“SHILTS started the book in 1988, before the current debate about gays in the military.”
“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…”
“Speaking to the People's Channel, the Skills Minister assured that the Government "will find the money" to plug the multi-billion pound gap in defence funding. Pressed by Ellie on how it will be funded, Baroness Smith told GB News: "This i…”
“a fire broke out on the roof of a 16-story building”
“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.”
“while the authorities fortified Pontypridd with 400 policemen, two troops of infantry and a squadron of the 18th Hussars.”
“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.”
“The Prime Minister unveiled the defence investment plan earlier this week but the Government is yet to spell out where £4.7 billion will come from with a decision to be made at the autumn budget. But questions have been raised over where t…”
“The plan brings us from 2.3 per cent of our GDP to 2.7 per cent, and then onwards in the next Parliament to meeting our responsibilities to spend three per cent of our GDP on defence.”
“fire broke out in two private residencies”
“the Russian defence ministry said the missile was intercepted alongside seven guided bombs and 602 fixed-wing drones.”
“Here, the troops open fired and two men were shot dead on the banks of the railway.”
“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.”
“Russian forces unleashed a sustained barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones on Ukraine’s capital in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 86 others in one of the most intense attacks on Kyiv in r…”
“At least 10 people have been killed and over 50 injured, including two children, Ukrainian Government officials have said.”
“six levels of a nine-story building collapsed”
“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.”
“Six teams from the the Army, Navy and RAF will Kitesurf from Alderney to Poole across the English Channel.”
“After Iran's attack on the first ship, the U.S. then struck multiple drone, missile and radar sites in Iran.”
“Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed the casualty figures and reported damage at 30 locations, with 20 residential buildings hit.”
“Tymur Tkachenk, head of the capital's military administration, said eight people had been killed and reported falling debris, fires, and damaged buildings in Desniansky, Shevchenkivskyi and Solomyanski districts.”
“another five-story residential building was damaged”
“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…”
“Two soldiers from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment have been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.”
“Then Iran fired into Bahrain and Kuwait in retaliation.”
“Emergency services deployed nearly 500 personnel and 100 vehicles, including a helicopter, to search for survivors and extinguish fires.”
“a 16-story building and private residencies were damaged”
“According to a Bloomberg report, the Russian defence ministry said the missile was intercepted alongside seven guided bombs and 602 fixed-wing drones.”
“Andry Rajoelina seized power in an army-backed coup in March 2009”
“Despite the deal, authorities in Lebanon and Israel say there were multiple deaths in Lebanon, and one Israeli soldier was killed.”
“The death toll after the attack may rise as the rescue teams continued their work.”
“damage occurred in five regional districts”
“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'.”
“Most of Canada's 2,800 troops in the country are based in the south, where Nato has been fighting the Taliban.”
“The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier”
“Three people sustained injuries in Bucha district”
“Damage was reported at around 30 locations across the capital, with more than 20 residential buildings affected.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Russia used 74 missiles and 496 drones, Ukraine's air force said, according to the Reuters news service.”
“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…”
“He entered the US Army in June 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July last year.”
“the aid will not reach the one million Rwandan refugees displaced by warfare there.”
“Damage was recorded in 30 locations across the city, mainly residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration.”
“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…”
“Up to 1,250 asylum seekers could be moved to the Ministry of Defence site, the meeting heard.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Borthwick narrowly made it out of Afghanistan alive after being shot in the chest during a Taliban attack which resulted in the surgical removal of one of his lungs.”
“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 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.”
“Funds will be raised for Combat Stress when soldiers drag a sled weighing 106kg - the weight of Andrew Borthwick at the time of his death”
“once such a force is established, perhaps one thousand American troops would deploy in Zaire”
“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 photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier and have never been published before.”
“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…”
“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 new countries could achieve membership by 1999.”
“Norma Storch (mother) is married to actor Larry Story who starred in the TV comedy F-Troop in the mid 1960's.”
“the one-year-long NATO mission is nearly half over.”
