Canada’s bid to join JEF still under consideration
Britain and its Joint Expeditionary Force partners are still considering Canada's application to join, with no timetable set after defence ministers met in Iceland in October.
Smyrtos remains only shadow fleet tanker stopped by UK
The UK has interdicted only one Russian shadow fleet tanker, the Smyrtos, since boarding powers were extended in March, and ministers will not say if they weighed stopping another off Shetland.
Hide and seek in the Baltic – inside NATO’s submarine hunt
We were given rare access to the ships, crews and commanders of NATO's Exercise Dynamic Merlin, from a brand new Dutch flagship to a Swedish stealth corvette at sea as a German submarine surfaced in the Baltic.
On board the Dutch tanker leading a NATO task force
The flagship of the NATO task group hunting submarines in the Baltic is not a destroyer or a frigate. It's a tanker. #SNGM1
A day at sea on Sweden’s stealth sub-hunting corvette
Few get to sail on a Visby-class corvette. We spent the first day of NATO's Exercise Dynamic Merlin at sea on HSwMS Helsingborg as she and other NATO warships hunted a German submarine in the Baltic.
Inside Canada’s sub hunter on NATO Baltic exercise
We were given a rare look inside HMCS Ville de Québec, the Canadian frigate hunting submarines with NATO in the Baltic, from her upgraded sonar to a helicopter that can scan nearly half the Baltic in one flight.
Damen points to Romania for ships UK said it would build
Damen says the Dutch Navy’s new amphibious ships will be built in Romania, after a UK minister said that Britain would build all eight, including the Dutch four.
Britain catching up with Germany on defence, says Rutte
Britain will double its defence spending in ten years and is catching up with Germany, NATO’s Mark Rutte says, calling it an “incredible number”.
Type 26 frigate work weighs on BAE maritime margins
BAE says growth and margins in its maritime business remain subdued as the Type 26 frigate programme works through its first-in-class stage.
Russian activity in UK waters up two fifths, says Streeting
Russian activity in the UK’s maritime area of responsibility is up 41 per cent this year, says Defence Secretary Wes Streeting: "High North security is homeland security." #AFF26
