The UK government's decision to send its Watchkeeper uncrewed air vehicles (UAVs) into early retirement marks an ignominious ...

The British Army has officially scrapped its troubled £1.35bn Watchkeeper drone programme, marking the end of a project ...

Thales, a multinational defence giant, is no stranger to controversy. Recently, reports emerged that the company is under ...

Lord Vernon Coaker, Labour peer in the House of Lords and minister of state for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), addressed the ...

Persistently overrun by technology developments, the British Army’s enduring tactical UAV programme, which ran up to cost ...

Critics said the move would leave UK defence weaker, at a time of growing international tensions and after over a decade of ...

The British Army’s main drone system is to be axed in a swathe of post-Budget cuts to the military.John Healey, the Defence ...

Defence Secretary John Healey announced the move in parliament on Wednesday, saying it would save up to half a billion pounds ...

The move will help with the implementation of the strategic defence review, due to report next year, the government says.