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Huge Canadian military aircraft lands in Kent
08 September 2022Footage shows the moment a huge military transport aeroplane was seen touching down in the county.
Navy tracks Russian warships sailing close to Kent coast
06 September 2022Royal Navy warships have been shadowing Russian vessels sailing close to the Kent coastline.
Boris thanks British servicemen involved in atomic bomb tests
06 September 2022One of the last acts of the out-going Prime Minister was to a promise a medal for Britain's Nuclear Test veterans.
The man who gave his name to 'doomsday' bomb ship
28 August 2022Since 1944, the SS Richard Montgomery has been submerged off the Kent coast but little has been said about the man who gave the vessel its name.
'Incredible noise' as jets fly over town
18 August 2022Fighter jets cause an 'incredible noise' as they flew low over a Kent town.
Historic hillside chalk cross gets facelift
18 August 2022A village will celebrate the centenary of its unique war memorial cut into the chalk on the North Downs.
Watch experts dig up Nazi rocket
09 August 2022A team of archaeologists are to excavate the crash site of a Nazi V2 rocket from the Second World War.
The forgotten war tragedy which left 200 Kent families in despair
09 July 2022It was a heartbreaking tragedy in which 1,500 mariners died - and were then wrongly blamed by Winston Churchill for their own fate.
Man dies at Armed Forces Day event
26 June 2022A visitor died after being taken ill at an Armed Forces Day event.
Soldier found dead at Army base
21 June 2022The death of a young soldier whose body was found at an MOD site is not being treated as suspicious, police say.
Kent v Essex in battle over bomb ship masts
15 June 2022An explosive row is brewing over whether Sheerness or Southend should end up with the SS Richard Montgomery masts after they are cut down.
Recalling the peacetime crash that cost the lives of four RAF crewmen
28 May 2022A routine training run turned to disaster when a flare exploded inside a Lancaster bomber.
'Cramped, smelly, no privacy and no showers - but I loved it'
05 May 2022A former submariner recalls the sights, sounds and smells of living on board a Cold War submarine.
Town celebrates new war memorial wall
27 April 2022A seaside town has celebrated its new war memorial wall with a dedication ceremony and also marked the centenary of its original war memorial.
City's 'last D-Day survivor' dies
27 April 2022A former Royal Marine who landed on the beaches of Normandy aged 20 has sadly died.
The ups and downs of the final HMS Maidstone's 40 years at sea
24 April 2022From supplying submarines with re-supplying submarines to a prison for members of the IRA - we look at the eventful like of HMS Maidstone.
Ex-soldier defies council order to take down flagpole
21 April 2022A council has ordered a former soldier to take down a flagpole bearing the Union and Ukrainian flags amid health and safety fears.
Defence firm's multi-million pound base revamp
07 April 2022International defence company BAE Systems has been given the nod to transform its premises.
'I can't pin a medal on a gravestone'
27 February 2022A seminar attended by a raft of MPs has urged the government to stop dragging its feet and give British Nuclear test veterans a medal.
'Shock, devastation and horror' A Ukrainian in Kent reacts to invasion
24 February 2022A Ukrainian woman living in Kent has responded with 'shock, devastation and horror' to Russia's invasion of her mother country.
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