Tag: Mount Pleasant Complex MPC

• Monday, July 13th 2026 - 14:01 UTC

  RAF will upgrade 107 Typhoon Tranches 2 and 3; four Tranche 1 will remain at Falklands’ MPC

  

  The Royal Air Force will upgrade all of its 107 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets at a cost of £5.4 billion, according to the latest UK Defense Investment Plan, as reported by Aerospace Global News, AGN, a British media company specializing in military information.This represents a significant increase from the 40 previously planned and announced in January 2026.

• Saturday, April 25th 2026 - 16:25 UTC

  Falklands MPA back in UK to bolster air operations in Iran conflict, Defense Eye

  

  The sole Royal Air Force air-to-air refueling tanker aircraft in the Falkland Islands has been pulled back home to bolster British air operations in response to the Iran conflict in the Middle East, according to UK news agencies which follow forces movements.

• Monday, December 1st 2025 - 18:28 UTC

  Falklands, emergency exercises training at MPC and protection of East Cove Port

  

  Falkland Islands Mount Pleasant Complex, MPC, has been the center of emergency exercises involving personnel from the UK Royal Logistic Corps 460 Port Troop conducting response training with the Falkland Islands Resupply Ship (FIRS) over several days.

• Wednesday, November 5th 2025 - 23:20 UTC

  Falklands, “Faugh a Ballagh”, (Clear the Way), the Irish Regiment has arrived

  

  B Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) have officially taken over from I Company, 2nd Battalion, The Rifles (2 RIFLES) as the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) Roulement Infantry Company (RIC), at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, September 22nd 2025 - 11:29 UTC

  Falklands, MPC Met Office presentation on rotor activity and the LIDAR Project

  

  Next Tuesday 23rd September at 5PM there will be a public meeting in the Harbor Lights Cinema where the Mount Pleasant Complex MPC Met Office will present a review of rotors, (*) how do they form, and how can they be observed.

• Tuesday, July 15th 2025 - 06:16 UTC

  Falklands, Planned emergency services exercise planned for Wednesday and Thursday around Stanley

  

  The Falkland Islands Government is advising the local community that a joint emergency services exercise will be taking place on Wednesday, 16, and Thursday, 17 July in and around Stanley.

• Saturday, June 14th 2025 - 10:44 UTC

  Falklands, new Commander (Artillery) of British Forces South Atlantic Islands

  

  A new Commander of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (CBFSAI) has been appointed. Brigadier Charlie Harmer took up the role from outgoing CBF Brigadier Daniel Duff on Saturday, June 13, one day before the Falkland Islands’ Liberation Day celebrations.

• Friday, June 6th 2025 - 20:11 UTC

  Falklands agrees to education facilities for secondary age children from MPC

  

  Falkland Islands Executive Council (ExCo) has agreed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) be signed between the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and the UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) that will allow secondary-age children from Mount Pleasant Complex (MPC) to board at Stanley House and study at the Falkland Islands Community School (FICS) from the start of the 2025 academic year.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 06:55 UTC

  Falklands, Defense completes major improvement project in strategic Mounts

  

  UK’s Defense Infrastructure Organization (DIO) has completed the final phase of a major improvement program at one of the most remote sites on the Defense estate in the Falkland Islands. A new modular accommodation block at Byron Heights has now been handed over, marking the end of a four-year infrastructure project, delivered on behalf of Strategic Command.  

• Monday, May 12th 2025 - 23:39 UTC

  Falklands, 40th anniversary of Mount Pleasant Complex and its air, sea and land military facilities

  

  Mount Pleasant Complex is marking its 40th year as an Royal Air Force fighter and transport presence in the Falkland Islands. Some fitty three kilometers southwest of the capital, Stanley, MPC was officially opened on 12 May 1985 by Prince Andrew, and became fully operational the following year, May 1986, making it the newest permanent air base for the RAF.