Plans exist to modernise the service with fighting vehicles, missiles and upgraded tanks but they were devised before Russia launched its war and the timeline to deliver the transformation is too slow to meet the heightened risk, according to the defence sources. Such concerns are...
This video is currently unavailable Britain's army must be ready in three years to fight a war against an "axis of upheaval" of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, the force's new chief has warned. Watch Next Tories criticise Labour on migration...
The British government is at war with Russia. It makes gestures at Vladimir Putin and calls him names from behind a great wall of Ukrainian corpses. The most recent demonstration of this is themilitary training programme, set up in the UK by the outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his ...
By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the UK was allied with France (by the Entente Cordiale) and Russia (which had its own secret agreement with France of mutual support in any war against the Prussian-led German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire), and when the First ...
General Sir Patrick Sanders, head of the British Army, speaks at last year’s International Armoured Vehicles expo. Credit: Defence IQ/X. Should war break out with Russia, the UK public will be enlisted to fight because the country’s military numbers are too small, head of the British ...
No serologic evidence of an association found between Gulf War service and Mycoplasma fermentans infection. Occult occupational infection with Mycoplasma fermentans has been proposed as a cause for illness among Persian Gulf War veterans. Symptom data and sera fr......
Recent geopolitical events such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine have, however, led to commitments from the UK government to spend more on defence, and possibly even a reversal of personnel cuts. Branches of the UK military There are three main branches of the UK armed forces, the British ...
Russia's war against Ukraine has demonstrated thattanks are vulnerable to attack from drones, and armed forces around the world are rushing to develop countermeasures. Energy weapons such as lasers are regarded as a reasonable solution as these can continue to fire for as long as there is suffic...
Russia's Tinderbox. Conflict in the North Caucasus and its Implications for the Future of the Russian Federation, Prior to the December 1994 Russian military intervention, few people in the West other than Russian specialists had even heard of Chechnya or were familiar... Hill, F 被引量: 8发...
The Kursk offensive was the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II. Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said thatRussia has deployed nearly 50,000 troopsto Kursk in response. A US official told CNN that Russia has amassed a large force of ...