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For the first time in nearly 15 years a Royal Navy fast jet squadron is today operating from the flight deck of a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. F-35B Lightning stealth fighters from 809 Naval Air ...
The Royal Navy has today unveiled its first uncrewed submarine – paving the way for how the UK could operate in the underwater battlespace. The 12m experimental vessel, displacing 19 tonnes and at two ...
The last of the Royal Navy’s glorious Trafalgar-class attack submarines has arrived home in Plymouth for the final time before decommissioning. The seventh and last boat of the class, HMS Triumph, ...
One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships shot down swarms of drones in a live-fire exercise off the Welsh coast. Taking on the kind of threats currently seen in the Red Sea and other regions, ...
Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales is leading warships, aircraft and a submarine of the UK Carrier Strike Group into the Mediterranean ahead major allied exercises. Approaching the Strait of ...
The most advanced hunter-killer submarine in the Royal Navy is today in the water for the first time. HMS Agamemnon, the penultimate Astute-class submarine built for the UK’s Silent Service, has been ...
Royal Marines from the UK Commando Force have been issued a new rifle for specialist operations, including counter-terrorism. More than 1,500 Sig Sauer MCX rifles have been purchased by the Navy, ...
The fast patrol craft will spend a couple of months venturing into the Arctic Circle, supporting NATO forces – including Royal Marines of the UK Commando Force – on Exercise Joint Viking, the annual ...
For the first time a fleet of drones will fly crucial supplies between ships of the UK Carrier Strike Group when it deploys to the Indo-Pacific later this month. Alongside its F35B stealth jets and ...
Royal Navy experts are embracing the next generation tech as they celebrate five successful years operating drones on the front line. 700X Naval Air Squadron – which marks its fifth anniversary next ...
The Plymouth-based survey and scientific vessel usually patrols the Antarctic, but occasionally to Arctic climates to certify that she is able to operate in the icy northern regions, which are vastly ...
The UK’s premier naval deployment of 2025 is underway as ships departed ports in England and Norway, led by the nation’s flagship. Aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales was waved off by thousands of ...