England’s Maro Itoje is unveiled as Lions captain at the squad’s naming ceremony. Photo: www.lionsrugby.com Australians, Kiwis and South Africans have been named in the 38-man strong British and Irish Lion rugby squad to tour Australia next month. Overnight, Ireland and Lions coach Andy Farrell named 21 forwards and 17 backs in his squad for…
A light armoured vehicle disembarks on Forrest Beach, in Far North Queensland, during the 2021 exercises. Photo: Defence Department PAPUA New Guinea will play host to exercises in this year’s Operation Talisman Sabre which is shaping as the largest ever involving 19 nations and 30,000 military personnel. This year’s event, the 11th, will run from…
An F-35B Jet takes off from the UK carrier HMS Prince of Wales. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence The Royal Navy is coming Down Under – and it’s bringing some European friends as part of Operation Highmast. Highmast is a UK-led NATO carrier strike group that will spend eight months at sea and will come…
The bus-sized Herne can lie on the seabed for nearly a year and can switch mission payloads. Picture: BAE Systems For two weeks in December, senior naval officers from 10 countries visited the English South Coast to watch the UK’s robot submersible Herne put through its paces. Herne is a robot submersible about the size…
The Lions coaching team of (L to R) Aled Walters, David Nucifora, Andy Farrell and Vinny Hammond in Sydney in mid-January. Photo: lionsrugby.com The Wallabies will face Fiji in Newcastle, NSW, on July 6 in their only hit-out for this year’s three-Test British and Irish Lions tour. And it will be the first time the…
The HMS Somerset (foreground) tracks the Yantar in the English Channel recently. Photo: UK MoD 2025 A suspected Russian spy ship returned to the English Channel this week after it was warned off last year by a British submarine for lingering near underseas cables in UK waters. The Yantar was warned off in November after…
The HMS Somerset (right) watches two Russian naval vessels sail past the British Isles on December 27, 2024. A Russian force was encountered in the North Sea and watched as it passed through the Dover Strait into the English Channel. Photo: UK MoD. A UK-led detection system is tracking Russia’s shadow oil tanker fleet in…
Australians wanting to visit UK attractions like Stonehenge must now possess a two-year ETA. Photo: stock Australian visitors to the United Kingdom will have to first apply for electronic travel authorisation (ETA) as of today (January 8). The UK Government says that from April, all European nationals, who do not need a visa for short…
Two Challenger 2 anti-tank battle tanks fire tracer rounds at dusk. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence 2024 MORE than 2500 UK troops will spearhead a major NATO exercise in eastern Europe in the next two months even as Donald Trump is inaugurated as the next US President. The UK will deploy over 2600 troops and…
Underseas cables linking North America and Europe are part of a network of subsea cables. Photo © US Navy / Joshua Knolla NATO military and civilian experts have met in Brussels today to ramp up co-operation in responding to attacks on undersea cables. A NATO statement says the experts were joined by industry representatives, including…