Defence

UK to test fire nuclear missile from submarine in the Atlantic

Dummy warhead to launch from HMS Vanguard, off Florida’s east coast, before vessel re-enters service after seven-year refit

UK and US ‘shoulder to shoulder’ against Iran-backed militants, says Shapps

Defence Secretary’s pledge comes with Britain poised to send aircraft carrier to Red Sea after weeks of attacks by Houthis

Royal Marine beats submariners to take charge of Navy’s global operations

Russian submarine threat no longer main focus as Red Sea and Pacific operations ‘just as relevant’

Britain set to deploy aircraft carrier to Red Sea

Navy ready to send either HMS Queen Elizabeth or HMS Prince of Wales into the Gulf amid Houthi attacks on shipping

Deadly attack may leave US no option but to take the fight directly to Iran

Biden administration under intense pressure to respond to the threat Tehran poses to Middle East stability after Jordan drone strike

‘Disbelief’ as under-manned Royal Navy seeks to re-deploy officers to diversity and inclusion team

Former First Sea Lord calls for the roles to be scrapped as the service faces personnel shortfalls and missed targets

US will sell F-16s to Turkey after Erdogan backs Sweden’s Nato bid

Turkish air force to receive 40 new fighter jets and upgrades for the 79 models it already has as part of a $23bn sale

Public face call-up if we go to war, military chief warns

General says Army is too small and Government needs to ‘mobilise the nation’ in the event of conflict with Russia

Navy warship ‘was rewired to go backwards instead of forwards’ – but it’s not incompetence, insists Shapps

Defence Secretary sticks to his guns after mooring mishap in which HMS Chiddingfold smashed into HMS Bangor in Bahrain

Nato warns of all-out war with Russia in next 20 years

Top official urges civilians as well as governments to prepare for life-changing conflict and potential conscription

Recruit soldiers with tattoos and asthma to solve intake crisis, MPs told

Outsourcing specialist in charge of Army recruitment admits it has ‘barely recruited half of the people they need’ this year

Grant Shapps defends troop cuts as UK soldiers have a ‘can-do’ attitude

Defence Secretary says people confuse the size of the British Army with ‘how well you are defended as a nation’

North Korea accused of launching missile that could hit US bases

South Korea and Japan say Pyongyang fired an apparent intermediate-range missile into the sea in violation of UN resolutions

Shapps warns Iran: Patience is running out with your Houthi thugs

Defence Secretary tells Tehran it needs to call off rebels launching attacks in Red Sea, after UK and US coalition strikes Yemen

Britain needs to re-examine its naval priorities amid Red Sea crisis

The Royal Navy's strategy may need a fundamental rethink if it is to sustain an out-of-area operation

Hamas ‘using massive stockpile of Chinese weaponry’ in Gaza

IDF uncovers items such as assault rifles, grenade launchers, and telescopic sights for rifles and cartridges for M16s

‘Vigilante’ RAF officer fired for threatening airman accused of sexually assaulting colleague

Squadron Leader Simon Short sent three letters to junior colleague saying he would ‘come for him’ and telling him to leave force

Khan’s decision to block cars for Ukraine scheme ‘gobsmacking’

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, asked for vehicles destined for scrapheap – but London counterpart turned him down

Can you solve GCHQ’s ‘hardest ever’ Christmas challenge?

The puzzle will require friends, families and colleagues to work together - The Telegraph has solved it, can you?

Two serving SAS soldiers arrested over ‘class A drugs’

Military and civilian police storm a farm in Herefordshire to carry out raid, amid fears weapons might also be stored there

Soldier sent to war ‘despite reports he was suicidal’

Father says Army failed his son who served Afghan tour despite depression and later took own life

Chinese warship accused of endangering Australian Navy divers with sonar pulses

Naval clash in international waters as a Chinese destroyer's sonar injures Australian divers, sparking diplomatic concerns

Mission accomplished: War veteran paints portraits of all 457 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Bosnian war veteran Kev Wills tells of families’ joy at realising their loved ones have been memorialised in unique tribute

Red Arrows in ‘special measures’ after sex harassment report

Elite squadron ‘put on notice’ after report found women plied with alcohol and treated like property

Next-generation US stealth bomber capable of disguise takes first flight

The B-21 Raider, the long-awaited successor to the B-2 Spirit that entered service in the late 1990s, is undergoing testing in California

How Israel launched its first major ground assault on Hamas

The scale of the bombardment was larger and the duration longer than any of the brief cross-border tank raids conducted so far

Taiwan ramps up its defences amid fears of China’s lethal drone swarms

War in Israel is likely to increase concerns over a threatened invasion by Beijing

Sunak urges Scholz to back £5bn sale of jets to Saudi Arabia

Britain needs Germany to sign off on BAE Systems Typhoons deal, but Berlin is said to be concerned about human rights issues

Britain ‘will be site of next-generation fighter jet headquarters’

Global Combat Air Programme, a joint project between the UK, Italy and Japan is likely to be based in London, sources say

Lasers that shoot down drones from armoured trucks to be used by Army for first time

Weapon system to be part of Ministry of Defence’s Land Demonstrator Programme where the Army tests and experiments with new capabilities

Judge urges Home Secretary to reconsider visa for daughter of Gurkha war hero

Woman, whose mother abandoned her when she was three, has lost three legal challenges to join her father after spending her life in Nepal

Army’s self-driving vehicle lets wounded soldiers lay low

HAWC that can be operated with a joystick is latest autonomous kit predicted to transform the battlefield