• Latest
  • Trending

UK plans to build 12 new attack submarines

June 2, 2025

BREAKING: Babcock University Expels ‘Missing’ Student Over Drug peddling, Occultic Involvement, and Internet Fraud

June 4, 2025

Caleb University Appoints Prof Olalekan Asikhia As Vice Chancellor

June 4, 2025

Telcom mast falls on building during rainfall in Ogun

June 4, 2025

Hate-Fueled Firebombing in Boulder:Suspect Plotted for a Year, Victims Recount Horror

June 4, 2025

Publish or Perish : FG Reads Riot Acts Against Varsities

June 4, 2025

Publish or Perish : FG Reads Riot Acts Against Varsities

June 4, 2025

Nigeria Secures $7.5M Gates Foundation Grant for AI Scaling Hub

June 4, 2025

Abeokuta to Host Olympic Talent Hunt as CAA, WWS Partner

June 4, 2025

Judiciary Strike Ends: Courts Reopen as CJN Intervenes

June 4, 2025

Simi Appeals: “My Daughter’s Name Isn’t Duduke!”

June 4, 2025

Yenagoa Ring Road: Glorydrive Phase 3 Surpasses 3km Asphalt Mark

June 3, 2025

Man falls from 26-Storey Cocoa House in Oyo

June 3, 2025

NOA Bridges Gap: Defence College Delegation Visits for Grassroots Communication Insights

June 3, 2025

FG begins payment of N44,000 minimum wage arrears to ex-corps members

June 3, 2025

Makinde Lauded for Revitalizing Fasola Farm Estate, Resolving LAUTECH Crisis

June 3, 2025

‘Ear bitten, crown removed’ Protest Erupts in Ondo as Monarch Attacked by Community Leader

June 3, 2025

Aiyedatiwa Flags Off Akungba-Ikare Road Dualization, Promises Safer Commute

June 3, 2025

Niger flood: Over 200 bodies recovered – Commissioner

June 3, 2025

Actress Biola Adebayo confirms separation from husband, focuses on co-parenting son

June 3, 2025

JUST IN: Ondo deputy speaker, majority leader resign

June 3, 2025

EPL: Bruno Fernandes rejects Al-Hilal, opts for Man United stay

June 3, 2025

Stop Wike’s monthly media chats, IPOB lawyer urges Tinubu

June 3, 2025

MAJOR ARMS BUST: Troops Intercept 164,000 Cartridges Bound for IPOB/ESN in Anambra, Two Arrested

June 3, 2025

Shocking Confession: Man Admits N9m Job Scam to EFCC

June 3, 2025

Young Corper’s Selfless Act: OAU Alumnus Donates Entire NYSC Allowance to Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta

June 2, 2025

Reps fault WAEC over exam conduct, seek reforms

June 2, 2025

Suspected Terror Attack in Boulder: Man Charged with Hate Crime After Firebombing Pro-Israel Group

June 2, 2025

Diri Ignites Bayelsa West with Ekeremor-Agge Road Construction, Targets Atlantic Ocean Link

June 2, 2025

APC blasts Atiku, Amaechi, El-Rufai as failed politicians desperate for power

June 2, 2025

Tragedy Strikes: 10-Year-Old Boy Beaten to Death by Headmaster in Pakistan

June 2, 2025
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • BREAKING NEWS
  • Tech
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Education
    • Sports
ValidView Network - Breaking News, Nigerian News, Nigerian newspapers, Entertainment, Videos, Sports, Business and Politics.
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • BREAKING NEWS
  • Tech

    CBN awards OPay for financial inclusion innovation

    Why Motorcycle Prices Are Soaring in 2024

    East Africa faces Internet disruptions due to cable faults

    Data consumption in Nigeria surged to 721,522 terabytes in January 2024 – NCC

    Nigerian Technology Ignited Investment Conference & Exhibition Sparks Strategic Partnerships for Economic Growth

    WhatsApp announces new feature on the Messaging App

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Entertainment
    • All
    • CELEBRATIONS
    • Gaming
    • History and Culture
    • Movie
    • Music
    • Sports

    Actress Biola Adebayo confirms separation from husband, focuses on co-parenting son

    EPL: Bruno Fernandes rejects Al-Hilal, opts for Man United stay

    Kano approves N1m each for 22 bereaved athlete families

    Sights And Sounds From The Grand Finale Of Gateway Games Ogun 2024

    UCL final: Meet Romanian ref István Kovács officiating PSG-Inter showdown

    Gateway Games: Ogun athletes end protest, reopen games village

  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Health

    NAFDAC flags VDM for inciting Onitsha traders over drug raidsVeryDarkMan

    Childbirth: Ban religious centres from taking deliveries, gynaecologists tell govt

    Niger gov makes a u-turn on dreadlocks ban following public outcry

    Rivers, Benue, A’Ibom top Nigeria’s 2m HIV patients

    From School Father To Now His Personal Assistant

    The Bold Fight Against Cervical Cancer by Phlox Health Wash Foundation, Partners: A Review

    Trending Tags

    • Golden Globes
    • Game of Thrones
    • MotoGP 2017
    • eSports
    • Fashion Week
  • Education
    • Sports
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • BREAKING NEWS
  • Tech

    CBN awards OPay for financial inclusion innovation

    Why Motorcycle Prices Are Soaring in 2024

    East Africa faces Internet disruptions due to cable faults

    Data consumption in Nigeria surged to 721,522 terabytes in January 2024 – NCC

    Nigerian Technology Ignited Investment Conference & Exhibition Sparks Strategic Partnerships for Economic Growth

    WhatsApp announces new feature on the Messaging App

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Entertainment
    • All
    • CELEBRATIONS
    • Gaming
    • History and Culture
    • Movie
    • Music
    • Sports

    Actress Biola Adebayo confirms separation from husband, focuses on co-parenting son

    EPL: Bruno Fernandes rejects Al-Hilal, opts for Man United stay

    Kano approves N1m each for 22 bereaved athlete families

    Sights And Sounds From The Grand Finale Of Gateway Games Ogun 2024

    UCL final: Meet Romanian ref István Kovács officiating PSG-Inter showdown

    Gateway Games: Ogun athletes end protest, reopen games village

  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Health

    NAFDAC flags VDM for inciting Onitsha traders over drug raidsVeryDarkMan

    Childbirth: Ban religious centres from taking deliveries, gynaecologists tell govt

    Niger gov makes a u-turn on dreadlocks ban following public outcry

    Rivers, Benue, A’Ibom top Nigeria’s 2m HIV patients

    From School Father To Now His Personal Assistant

    The Bold Fight Against Cervical Cancer by Phlox Health Wash Foundation, Partners: A Review

    Trending Tags

    • Golden Globes
    • Game of Thrones
    • MotoGP 2017
    • eSports
    • Fashion Week
  • Education
    • Sports
No Result
View All Result
ValidView Network - Breaking News, Nigerian News, Nigerian newspapers, Entertainment, Videos, Sports, Business and Politics.
No Result
View All Result

UK plans to build 12 new attack submarines

ValidViewNetwork by ValidViewNetwork
June 2, 2025
in World
0 0
0
Home News World
ADVERTISEMENT
0
SHARES
5
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
ADVERTISEMENT
Spread the love

Britain announced it will build 12 new attack submarines as it was set to unveil, on Monday, a major defence review to deal with “growing” Russian aggression and the changing nature of warfare.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC radio that “there is greater instability on defence and security than there has been for many, many years, and greater threats.”

ADVERTISEMENT

His Labour government will later publish its Strategic Defence Review, a document that will assess threats facing the UK and make recommendations.

The review warns that Britain is entering “a new era of threat” as drones and artificial intelligence transform modern warfare, The Guardian newspaper reported over the weekend.

“I wanted a review that told me the challenges we’re actually facing and likely to face for the foreseeable future,” Starmer told the BBC Monday.

“And the principles are clear: war-fighting readiness, integrating our forces… and a NATO first approach,” he added.

The UK has been racing to rearm in the face of the threat from Russia and fears that US President Donald Trump will no longer help protect Europe.

Starmer said it would serve as “a blueprint for strength and security for decades to come”.

– ‘Daily attacks’ –
His government pledged in February to lift defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027 in the “largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War”.

And despite budget constraints, it aims for spending to rise to three percent in the next parliamentary term, due in 2029.

Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.
ADVERTISEMENT

The Labour government has said it will cut UK overseas aid to help fund the spending.

Based on the recommendations of the review, which is led by former NATO secretary general George Robertson, the government said Sunday that it would boost stockpiles and weapons production capacity, which could be scaled up if needed.

This includes £1.5 billion ($2 billion) for building “at least six munitions and energetics factories”, procuring 7,000 domestically built long-range weapons, and spending £6 billion on munitions over the current parliamentary term.

The government also said late Sunday that it would build up to 12 new attack submarines as part of its AUKUS military alliance with Australia and the United States, and invest £15 billion in its nuclear warhead programme.

The defence ministry last week pledged £1 billion for the creation of a “cyber command” to help on the battlefield.

“We’re in a world that is changing now… and it is a world of growing threats,” Defence Secretary John Healey told the BBC in an interview Sunday.

“It’s growing Russian aggression. It’s those daily cyberattacks, it’s new nuclear risks, and it’s increasing tension in other parts of the world as well,” he said.

– ‘Sophisticated challenge’ –
The last such defence review was commissioned in 2021 by the previous Conservative government, and was revised in 2023 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

ADVERTISEMENT

While launching the new review, Robertson said it would tackle threats from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, calling them a “deadly quartet”.

But in an op-ed in The Sun newspaper, Starmer did not mention China, while warning that “The Kremlin is working hand in hand with its cronies in Iran and North Korea.”

The softer rhetoric on China is in line with the Labour government’s efforts to thaw relations with Beijing, which reached new lows under former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government.

The review describes Russia as an “immediate and pressing” threat, but calls China a “sophisticated and persistent challenge”, according to The Guardian.

At a time when Washington is demanding that its NATO allies bolster their own defences, Britain is considering strengthening its deterrent by buying nuclear-missile capable aircrafts from the United States, The Sunday Times reported.

Without confirming or denying, Healey said Sunday that “strong deterrence is absolutely essential in order to keep Britain and the British people safe.”

AFP

Tags: submarineUK
Previous Post

Ibadan Building Collapse: Item7go Structure Crumbles, Sparks Safety Concerns

Next Post

Ground rents: I derive joy stepping on big people’s toes — Wike

ValidViewNetwork

ValidViewNetwork

Next Post

Ground rents: I derive joy stepping on big people’s toes — Wike

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get the latest news from ValidViewNetwork
Loading

SPONSORED ADVERT

SPONSORED ADVERT

SPONSORED ADVERT

  • Home
  • BREAKING NEWS
  • Tech
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Education

© 2022 ValidViewNetwork - Website Developed by HaybeeMultimedia.

No Result
View All Result

© 2022 ValidViewNetwork - Website Developed by HaybeeMultimedia.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist