Military of the United Kingdom

Britain will send 20,000 armed forces personnel to one of NATO's largest exercises since the Cold War, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Monday.

The Defence Ministry has proposed a more ambitious development plan for the Slovenian Armed Forces under which the NATO target of spending 2% of GDP on defence would be reached by 2030, five years sooner than currently planned.

According to the minister, the project for modernization of the Air Force envisages the acquisition of combat vehicles in two stages of eight fighters.

Two airplanes belonging to the British Royal Air Force executed on Tuesday an air police mission in international airspace over the Black Sea, to intercept an aircraft of the Russian Federation.

The frigate is part of the fleet of vessels that accompany the British aircraft carrier “Queen Elizabeth”

A day later, Cutileiro wrote a multi-page account of his talks with the three nationalist leaders to inform the European Community foreign ministers - and a single sentence on the meeting with the six opposition parties, affirming merely that it had taken place.

Four French jets are taking part in joint exercises with the Greek Air Force

Romania's defence spending of two percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for ten years should be found increasingly more in investments in the Romanian industry, in modern production facilities and highly qualified jobs created in the country, National Defence Minister Nicolae Ciuca said on Thursday.

Six F35-B Lightning warplanes, the UK's newest fighter, arrived Tuesday at a British air base on Cyprus for training and a systems test in the aircraft's first overseas deployment.

The first overseas flight for the Lightning Force's F-35 stealth fighters will take place in the eastern Mediterranean when they are expected to touch down in Akrotiri this summer.