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
Atlantic Future Forum ends in Oslo with pacts and deals
A northern navies pact, Norwegian motherships for the Royal Navy, new drone deals and stark warnings on Russia: how the Atlantic Future Forum in Oslo delivered. #AFF26
Hybrid Navy could make Britain an autonomy export leader
General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, the First Sea Lord, has said the Hybrid Navy can give Britain an industrial lead in one of the biggest global markets of the coming decades.
