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Commodore Maryla Ingham commands Standing NATO Maritime Group One. Speaking from her flagship, she talked about undersea cables, the Russian Navy, and a 20-year-old sailor from Canada who had never seen the ocean until two years ago.
Ukrainian long-range strikes are having a significant effect in isolating Crimea and degrading Russia's ability to resupply its forces, with Ukraine striking up to 190 vessels at sea in the month of July alone.
Russia is continuing to make slow but costly gains in the most politically significant terrain of eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk "fortress belt".
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has condemned the violation of Polish airspace by a Russian missile.
The US Navy has sunk the decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu in a live-fire sinking exercise in the Pacific, using unmanned surface vessels and anti-ship missiles.
BAE Systems has reported a rise in sales, profit and orders for the first half of 2026 and upgraded its full-year guidance across all key financial measures.
Afghans who worked with UK forces were wrongly refused relocation and left facing years of danger, with a data breach described as a foreseeable systemic failure that became part of a wider failure of governance and public trust.
The UK Government has awarded a new £5.9 billion contract to BAE Systems to fund critical work progressing the Royal Navy's Dreadnought Class nuclear deterrent submarines towards entry into service.
The Dutch Ministry of Defence has ordered containerised towed-array systems that can be rapidly deployed onto a wide variety of surface vessels, giving the Dutch Navy a way to add anti-submarine sensing to ships not originally designed to carry it.
Twenty-two companies, including British small and medium-sized enterprises, are to receive contracts to carry out feasibility studies on sites for new UK factories producing materials used in munitions.
