Firing at ground targets: Pembrey Sands Air Weapons Range
![RAF Regiment Forward Air Controllers (FACs) from the Air Land Integration Cell (ALIC), based at RAF Honington (Suffolk), guide a Typhoon from 6 Squadron onto their target at the Cape Wrath practice range in Scotland. [Crown Copyright/MOD2013]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/09/45155464-1024x461.jpg)
...estate for the MOD. Air Weapons Ranges are vital for training our pilots and gunners and I feel very lucky to help facilitate that, especially in such a beautiful place....
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A Sapper Goes to Cyprus
...my unit and onwards to RAF Brize Norton for an 04:00 departure, we were met with the news that our flight had been delayed until 14:30 the next day. However,...
HMNB Clyde Framework: The fun way to select your future partners
![Clyde Commercial Framework announcement [Crown Copyright, MOD 2018]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/05/20180516-Clyde-Commercial-Framework-1024x683.jpg)
...Strategy and paves the way for better value delivery of its capital programme which bodes well for the DIO as an intelligent client organisation and for its future industry partners....
Getting battle ready with BATUS
![Challenger 2 tank crews training at BATUS. [Crown Copyright/MOD2014]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/05/45158850-1024x420.jpg)
...with delivery by the DIO team. I’m happy to say the accommodation for BATUS personnel is some of the best I have seen, both family houses and rooms for single...
Supporting Suffield: Locally Employed Civilians in Canada
![A line of Challenger 2's fire as part of the Royal Welsh Battle Group during Exercise Prairie Lightning at BATUS in 2012. [Crown Copyright/MOD2012]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/45158850-1-1024x420.jpg)
...[Crown Copyright/MOD2012]You may have seen Brig. Stockley’s recent blog about the vital work done by foreign nationals working for MOD on our overseas sites, and I wanted to explain a...
Welcoming the Disabled Ramblers to Salisbury Plain
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Public Access, Public safety, Salisbury Plain Training Area
...an incredible landscape which has accessible opportunities for a wide range of people. A network of tracks provides opportunities for visitors to get out and enjoy areas of the countryside...
Conserving habitats on the military training estate
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Amanda Williams, Posted on:
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Biodiversity, Environment and Ecology, Landmarc, Salisbury Plain Training Area
...could be considered as one of the last bastions of habitat for numerous protected species. Salisbury Plain, for example, provides an excellent environment for the mysterious fairy shrimp, a tiny...
Supporting nature recovery on the MOD estate in South Wales
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John Black, Posted on:
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Conservation, Environment and Ecology, Land Management
...training support services, helping to ensure that the equipment used by our Armed Forces is fit for purpose and that military personnel have the training needed for the job they...
The eagle has landed: rare bird returns to Lulworth Ranges
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Olly Howells, Posted on:
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Defence Training Estate (DTE), Environment and Ecology, Lulworth Training Area
...range of roosting and foraging opportunities for the enormous birds, with ample foraging areas for fish, the eagles’ preferred prey, as well as other food. Discussions are underway to find...
DIO teams praised for swift clean-up operation after tornado rips through RAF Akrotiri
...supports operations in the region and is used as a forward mounting base for overseas operations in the Middle East. On Wednesday, 14 February 2024, the area was hit by...