Interoperability has been the key objective in a recent trial involving the F-35B Lightning II and Typhoon FGR4 aircraft. Funded by the MOD, the two-week trial has been carried out in airspace above the upper Mojave Desert, California, as part of the RAF’s Exercise High Rider. Coordinated by Northrup Grumman and the ...
The NATO Defence Ministerial is due to go ahead this week. It is the first meeting of the year and the first to include new US Defence Secretary Mattis. Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, will join other allied defence ministers in greeting Secretary Mattis, who is well versed with NATO following his ...
Ahead of this week’s meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, the alliance has released figures on defence expenditure by the allied countries. Collecting information from Allies on a regular basis, NATO presents and aggregates this information, reporting current and estimated future defence expenditure according to an agreed definition. NATO also makes use of ...
Defence Secretary underlines Britain and Italy’s close defence partnership on NATO and EU operations. The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, in partnership with his counterpart Roberta Pinotti, has said Britain was a key ally of Italy and would not be stepping back from European defence and security commitments following the results ...