SOFREP Crate Club lands in the UK and Europe

SOFREP Crate Club is now available to the UK and European public.  Gear tried, tested, and chosen by former SOF guys with years of real world experience, delivered each month at your door.  Plus our strength in numbers gets us wholesale, sometimes better than wholesale pricing. Sign up now! SOFREP Crate Club UK SOFREP Crate […]

F-35A Scores High Marks in First Red Flag Exercise

The Air Force is reporting that the F-35A made an excellent debut at its first Red Flag exercise. Red Flag 17-1 took place at Nellis AFB, Las vegas, Nevada, from January 23rd to February 10th. Thirteen F-35A stealth fighters from the 388th Fighter Wing and Reserve 419th Fighter Wing from Hill AFB, Utah participated along with F-22s, B-1Bs, […]

The British Army can’t find enough soldiers

A common problem in Western armies, (recruiting/retention) plagues the British Army, to counter that a series of measures is considered in order to keep the Army a lucrative option for employment. -Vasilis Chronopoulos  The British military is one of the world’s most legendary fighting institutions. It enabled the British monarchy to become one of the world’s […]

UK Prime Minister May seals fighter jet deal with Turkey

BAE systems and Turkish Aerospace Industries will work together to develop the TF-X Turkish fighter program -Vasilis Chronopoulos May, in Turkey a day after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, avoided criticising his sweeping ban on people from certain countries seeking refuge in the United States. She visited both countries for the first time as […]

Former MI6 spy known to U.S. agencies is author of reports on Trump in Russia

Steele was known to US agencies through his work on behalf of Football Association (FA), England’s domestic soccer governing body in investigating FIFA. FA was planning to bid on the organization and the 2018  or 2022 World Cups. They hired Steele and his company Orbis to gather information that would give them a better understanding of what […]

Why the world’s watching Cyprus unification talks: QuickTake Q&A

The latest talks to unify Cyprus come as key parties, including Turkey and the UK, face existential issues at home. Still, the negotiations starting Jan. 9 in Geneva have some forces working in their favor, leading to optimism that 40 years of division might be coming to an end. The Mediterranean island — less than […]

British Intelligence among first to sound alarm over Russia’s US hacks

The British equivalent of the NSA, the Government Communications Headquarters, is one of the first intelligence agencies to report this new emerging threat. -Vasilis Chronopoulos.  British intelligence was among the first to raise the alarm over Russia’s hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), alerting their US counterparts in autumn of 2015, according to US intelligence officials. […]

UK minister sees threat of Islamic State chemical attack in Britain

Ben Wallace, the UK security minister, expressed his concerns about a possible chemical attack by Daesh militants in the UK in a interview he gave in Sunday Times. – Vasilis Chronopoulos. Islamic State militants have aspirations to launch mass-casualty chemical attacks on targets in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, the British security minister said in a newspaper […]

Watch: Amazon Delivers First Package Via Flying Drone

Well, this is aviation related! Actually, what Amazon did is truly amazing and will dramatically change our future. Imagine looking up and seeing the skies full of little drones zooming back and forth. This will actually happen much sooner than you think and it will alter many people’s lives. Called Amazon Prime Air, the company […]

Sectarian violence spills into the UK

Two of the world’s nuclear powers almost went to war recently to little notice in the UK. And yet the group accused of being the spark for the violence and the countries involved are ones with deep historical links to this country. Violence in South Asia has a habit of resonating in Britain, be it […]