American warship opens fire with main gun
US Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. has fired its Mark 45 5-inch main gun during a live-fire exercise while operating in the US 7th Fleet area.
Kraken and Saab test autonomous drone-seeker vessel
Kraken Technology Group and Saab UK have developed and tested an autonomous vessel carrying an air-surveillance radar, intended to provide a rapidly deployable counter-drone sensing capability at sea.
British aircraft carrier ‘opens fire’ at night
British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has conducted night-time gunnery training as the warship continues work to restore full operational and warfighting readiness following its recent docking period.
UK warships to enter South China Sea despite China protest
HMS Spey and hms Tamar will enter the South China Sea for a ten-day allied exercise, continuing a UK naval presence Beijing has repeatedly criticised.
Faslane sees British and American subs arrive in one day
Two nuclear-powered attack submarines came in to HM Naval Base Clyde on Friday, a United States Navy Virginia-class boat arriving in the morning and the Royal Navy's newest hunter-killer, HMS Agamemnon, following later in the day.
QinetiQ sets out its role in Scottish warship sinking
The decommissioned American frigate went down in deep water around 150 miles off the Western Isles, and the company that runs the range from which the exercise was controlled has now set out what it contributed.
Royal Marines seek new ship boarding training facility
The Ministry of Defence wants to build a maritime interdiction operations training facility at Royal Marines Bickleigh, with an option to buy a second one for the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone.
Man charged in first use of new border security offence
A man has become the first person charged with advertising illegal immigration services under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 as part of a National Crime Agency investigation.
Powerful nuclear attack submarine arrives in Scotland
HMS Agamemnon, the sixth of the Royal Navy's Astute-class hunter-killer submarines, has arrived at her home port of HM Naval Base Clyde for the first time, a week after sailing from the Barrow yard where she was built.
American supercarrier heads in for multi-billion refit
The U.S. Navy has awarded Newport News Shipbuilding a $5 billion contract to carry out the Refuelling and Complex Overhaul of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, with the ship due to return to the fleet in November 2031.
