L3Harris lands Trident flight test support deal
L3Harris has been awarded a $46 million contract to provide services and support for flight test instrumentation systems used with Trident, with a small share of the work to be carried out in Barrow-in-Furness.
HII to build 10 ROMULUS drone ships for U.S. Navy
HII has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to build 10 ROMULUS uncrewed surface vessels under the Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV) programme.
British forces land on Danish territory near Arctic circle
Royal Marines have deployed to the Faroe Islands for the first time since the Second World War, training with Danish and Faroese forces around the strategically important Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap.
Advanced British warship nears return to fleet
HMS Daring has taken on fuel for the first time in years, in the clearest sign yet that the destroyer is close to going back to sea after nearly a decade.
Royal Navy navigation interface work to go to OSI Maritime
The Ministry of Defence intends to award OSI Maritime Systems a two-year contract worth £15m to design, build, install and assure replacement interface units connecting the Royal Navy's electronic chart system to its combat systems.
British Commandos called in air strikes alongside Navy SEALs
Royal Marines from the UK Commando Force guided in attacks by American fast jets and seized a ship at sea during three weeks of maritime special operations training with United States Navy SEALs in Virginia.
Sunken American frigate will become a reef off Scotland
The decommissioned frigate USS Klakring, sunk by British and American forces off the Hebrides this month, will become a natural reef on the seabed, and the environmental approvals were obtained before the exercise took place.
Live fire on this scale is rare, Royal Navy commander says
Most Royal Navy training is not live firing, which is what set this exercise apart, says Commander Peter Meigh, speaking from range control on South Uist as USS Klakring was sunk.
British and US forces obliterate target off Scottish coast
Ships, aircraft and a submarine from the United States and the United Kingdom have concluded Exercise Atlantic Thunder 2026 in the North Atlantic, a multi-domain sinking exercise that ended with the destruction of the decommissioned guided missile frigate ex-USS Klakring, according to United States Sixth Fleet, which led it.
UK exercise lead explains why warships are sunk off Hebrides
The American frigate destroyed off the Hebrides this month was fitted with instruments by both navies before it was hit, so that every weapon that struck it could be measured, says Lieutenant Commander Paul Atkins, UK lead project officer for Atlantic Thunder.
