Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for the armed forces and national defence. Its stated aim is a secure and prosperous United Kingdom with global reach and influence, protecting the UK's people, territories, values and interests at home and overseas through strong armed forces and in partnership with allies. MOD is a ministerial department supported by 24 agencies and public bodies.

Purpose and priorities

The ministry's purpose is to protect the nation and help it prosper. Its priorities are to protect the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories; to pursue a campaigning approach to counter threats from state and non-state actors; and to secure strategic advantage, greater economic and industrial resilience and a contribution to national prosperity. The Strategic Defence Review 2025, Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad, sets out how these priorities will be delivered.

People

MOD employs trained and untrained personnel in the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force, together with a civilian workforce that includes the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, trading funds such as the UK Hydrographic Office, and locally engaged civilians who support the UK presence overseas. The UK regular forces comprise full-time trained and untrained personnel, supported by reserves.

Recent announcements

• The UK led a major Joint Expeditionary Force exercise in the High North and Baltic as defence ministers met in Iceland
• The Royal Navy's sixth attack submarine departed Barrow-in-Furness for sea trials
• British companies will gain access to Ukrainian battlefield data to develop AI models for drone swarms
• The RAF launched No. III Space Effects Squadron, its first unit dedicated to defending UK satellites
• The Army is receiving new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drones, and housing reforms give military families more say over their homes

The GOV.UK site publishes MOD news, speeches, guidance, regulations, statistics such as the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme reports, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports, and lists the department's social media channels.

Shows

The Ministry of Defence appears in the exhibitor lists of Euronaval 2026, MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition 2027 and the SECD Day Conference and Exhibition 2027.

Contact

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