August 2025
British and French paras have been training to deploy to war zones together.
Latest news from around the world
Poland
Various counter-UAS kit as well as techniques, tactics and procedures were tested by British and US formations during Project Vanaheim.
France
Soldiers from First Fusiliers overcame a battle with the elements to become the first mixed Infantry team to complete a relay swim of the English Channel.
Germany
Nato’s river crossing experts teamed up to take on Europe’s busiest commercial waterway in a large-scale test of operational capability.
UK
Military chaplains from across the UK forces saw off the Vatican Cricket Club in a historic T20 sporting encounter in Aldershot.
Super-fit soldiers from 36 Engineer Regiment and The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers made the journey home to take on the world’s highest endurance race.
A unit has opened its own facility for troops to hone their skills.
What's happening in August
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Army and Royal Air Force square-off in three-day contest at Larkhill
14th
Stars from the army’s victorious Inter-Services squad will be front and centre
15th
Hundreds of forces personnel will descend on the National Memorial Arboretum
16th
Norfolk's Tank Museum will play host to the east’s best show of moving military might
If soldiers aren’t already hearing the word ‘Asgard’ being bandied about in briefings, they soon will.
