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Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration following the dissolution of the PKK will be a process with no recent ...

Income tax currently raises 11 per cent of national income. So this extra 1 per cent for defence could be financed by increasing income tax revenue by 10 per cent." ...

Old airframes do exist in stock, but bringing them back to operational condition and upgrading their systems to Tu-95MS or Tu-22M3 standard would be extremely expensive and take many years to start ...

Matthew Savill of the Royal United Services Institute think-tank, said: “Given the existing pressures in the budget, and the need to rebuild the foundations of defence, it’s very unlikely that the ...

Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), warned that moving too rapidly to achieve the 3 per cent target -such as trying to achieve it during ...

There is a risk of drawing the wrong conclusions about Chinese and Western air capabilities from the recent clashes if Indian ...

While the Review points to the need to recapitalise defence and invest in new technologies, it is less clear about the timescale for getting there. In part, this reflects concerns about the capacity ...

The review majors on 'warfighting readiness' and a 'whole of society approach', yet, unlike European allies such as Germany, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania, the government has decided not to ...

The long-awaited Strategic Defence Review can lead to significant change in the Armed Forces if it moves beyond previous ...

The Tu-22M3 that Russia uses to launch anti-ship quasi-ballistic missiles into Ukraine has also not been produced since the 1990s and at least two had already been lost or shot down since 2022.

The strikes by the Indian Air Force against targets in Pakistan offer a powerful lesson in restraint, and Operation Sindoor ...