Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Russia’s military campaign has made only marginal gains and at huge cost: UK statement to the OSCEFound: This funding will be rapidly delivered to provide urgently needed ammunition, air defence, drones and
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK DefenceFound: Do we do enough training with the new technologies, such as drones and goodness knows what else?
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)Found: hardware, including tank protection, something called the Trophy system, anti-aircraft defence systems, drones
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) bolstered our Royal Air Force presence in the middle east, enabling Typhoon crews to intercept Iranian drones - Speech Link
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 15 April 2024 on Iran-Israel Update, Official Report, column 23, how many RAF (a) Typhoons and (b) planes were deployed to intercept Iranian drones fired into Israel on 13 April 2024; and what steps he is taking to protect service personnel in the region.
Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
As stated by the Prime Minister on 15 April 2024, the RAF sent additional aircraft to the region and RAF aircraft shot down a number of Iranian attack drones. However, for operational security reasons I cannot comment on the specifics of this activity. The Ministry of Defence constantly reviews its force protection measures to ensure they are appropriate.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: PM announces ‘turning point’ in European security as UK set to increase defence spending to 2.5% by 2030Found: in their own militaries and in cyber capabilities and in low-cost technology, like the Shahed attack drones
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw: 23 April 2024Found: And sent technology to Iran in exchange for weapons, like the Shaheed drones… …that I saw myself are
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Government plan to save 38 million hours of police timeFound: million will be spent over the next 4 years on new technology, such as live facial recognition and drones
Found: UK Government says some of the se additional RAF jets and refuelling aircraft intercepted several drones
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Policing Productivity Review: government responseFound: It includ es measures such as facial rec ognition, drones as first responders, redaction, rapid video