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The Ministry of Defence is drawing on lessons from Ukraine to inform improvements to body armour, including feedback from female personnel.
HMS Queen Elizabeth is set to depart Rosyth following an extended maintenance period, with temporary airspace restrictions in place over the Firth of Forth ahead of her sailing.
NATO efforts to build a common underwater network are moving beyond a technical architecture and into a broader operational and organisational model, according to a discussion at #UDT2026.
Indra Land Vehicles and Iveco Defence Vehicles (IDV), a Leonardo company, have signed a strategic agreement to support delivery of a new amphibious combat vehicle for the Spanish Marine Infantry.
The Royal Navy has provided further detail on its Atlantic Bastion concept, offering a clearer view of how the programme is structured, how it is being delivered and the constraints it is expected to operate within.
The constraint on scaling undersea autonomy is no longer platforms, it is data, and that came through clearly during a panel on North Atlantic operations where senior naval officers and industry figures pointed to data volume, access and handling as the real limiting factors.
Submarines are not disappearing from the North Atlantic battlespace, but they are likely to operate with less freedom than in the past as more sensors, more platforms and more connected systems are pushed into the water.
At #UDT2026, Ian McFarlane of Thales spoke to UK Defence Journal about the shift to uncrewed platforms and growing demand for subsea sensing and infrastructure protection
The Royal Navy's fleet of 20 uncrewed surface vessels under Project Beehive will be used for operations, training and development, Defence Minister Luke Pollard has confirmed.
The extension of the Royal Navy’s Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP) is on track, according to Defence Minister Luke Pollard.
