Royal Fleet Auxiliary crews accept new pay deal

Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel, who support Royal Navy operations around the world, are to receive an above-inflationary pay rise and improved conditions.
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Babcock and Dassault team up on digital engineering

Babcock has announced a collaboration with Dassault Systèmes to accelerate its digital engineering, using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform across shipbuilding, submarine support, nuclear and aviation work.
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Submarine sinks American cruiser in Pacific Exercise

The decommissioned US Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay has been sunk during a live-fire exercise at RIMPAC 2026 in the Pacific.
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Burnham hosts Zelensky on British aircraft carrier

The Prime Minister has welcomed President Zelensky as his first international visitor, meeting aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth and confirming the UK will share the tech behind the Stone Cloak drone jammer.
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Royal Navy tests seabed defence tech with AUKUS allies

British, US and Australian forces ran uncrewed underwater systems across a six-week trial, Exercise Lanternfish, rehearsing how the three AUKUS nations would protect critical seabed infrastructure.
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Ferguson Marine delivers Type 26 blocks to BAE on Clyde

Port GLasgow shipyard Ferguson Marine has completed three structural units for the Type 26 Frigate frigate HMS Birmingham, with the sectiosn being moved by sea from Port Glasgow to BAE Systems' Govan yard up river.
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Saab wins huge deal to fit out German frigates

Saab has received an order to deliver and integrate combat systems, sensors and composite structures for four of the German Navy's new MEKO A-200 DEU class frigates.
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D-Day commando name revived as CLR becomes 48 Commando

The Commando Logistic Regiment is to be renamed 48 Commando Support Group Royal Marines, reviving a wartime name that saw action on Juno Beach and at Walcheren.
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Minehunting teams embark warships ahead of global tasks

Royal Navy minehunting specialists have taken their uncrewed systems to sea aboard HMS Stirling Castle and RFA Lyme Bay, training for deployments including a potential mission in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Sea Breeze brings allied EOD divers to Portland waters

Explosive ordnance disposal units from NATO allies and partner nations have been training together beneath the waters of Weymouth Bay during the second portion of Sea Breeze.