“Gurkhas are excellent soldiers. Would-be recruits go through a highly-competitive process - fewer than ten per cent make it. So the British army only gets the very best." The MoD was contacted ...

The 73-year-old was a former British Army Gurkha, a specialist brigade composed of soldiers recruited from Nepal. Born on November 28, 1951, Mr Limbu had been living in Ferne Way, Folkestone ...

This is not the only Force vehicle that will aid the Indian forces, as the Gurkha platform-based Light Strike Vehicle (LSV) has already been in military action since 2018. Here is a quick overview ...

These soldiers will be equipped with surface-to-air missile systems like Javelin. Currently, the British Army is facing a shortage of artillery guns and ammunition, primarily due to its large-scale ...

The Future Soldier warfighting structure stands as an impediment to the British Army attaining mass ... the Battle Casualty Replacement (BCR) pools for the Army in this period. They retained a basic ...

The garrison, he discovered, is a major military base in North Yorkshire, about 50 miles south of Newcastle. It’s the largest garrison in the British Army, and home to more than 13,000 people.

The helicopters have been remanufactured using common parts from the British Army AH-64 MkI fleet with the 17 not being converted going for a range of uses such as engineering, ground handling and ...

The army papers -- some marked "OFFICIAL - SENSITIVE ... One of the most high-profile cases took place in 2008, when a British civil servant left a folder of intelligence documents marked ...

LONDON – Britain’s defence ministry said on March 28 it has launched an urgent probe after a football fan found piles of sensitive military papers strewn across a street in northern England.

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that there are no current plans to procure additional tanks , leaving the British Army with just 60 to contribute to any European task force to deter Russia.

The UNTOLD: Stories of the Irish in the British Army project is being backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and aims to tell the “previously untold 350-year history of Irish soldiers and ...