Inside the online world of a fake Royal Marines colonel
A TikTok user built a false Royal Marines career from real operations, military imagery and AI-edited photos. UK Defence Journal checked the claims and found a story that went well beyond an invented rank.
Russian vessels mapping UK undersea cables
Russian specialist submarines have been used to survey critical undersea infrastructure in and around British waters according to a report published by the U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Navantia recruits 28 shipbuilders for Belfast FSS work
Navantia UK is recruiting welders, platers and pipefitters at Harland & Wolff in Belfast as it expands the workforce building three 39,000-tonne Fleet Solid Support ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Royal Navy trials heavy-lift drone from patrol ship
HMS Trent has completed the first flight of a Malloy T-150B heavy-lift drone from a River-class Batch 2 patrol ship, testing how uncrewed aircraft could support ship-to-shore logistics and disaster relief.
Cost and risk questions raised over US battleship plan
The first of the US Navy's proposed guided missile battleships would carry a procurement cost of between $17.6 billion and $18.9 billion if bought in FY2030, with subsequent ships estimated at $12.2 billion to $13.1 billion each.
US technology runs deep in Dreadnought programme
The Royal Navy's Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarines share a missile compartment design, a propulsion technology exchange and a missile with the American Columbia class now taking shape at Groton, a set of dependencies laid out in a Congressional Research Service assessment.
Navantia expands Methil yard for defence work
Navantia UK says investment at its Methil yard has reached £26.7 million as the Fife site is modernised for naval construction and a growing portfolio of defence work.
US attack submarine output still short of Navy goal
The US Navy has bought forty-one Virginia class attack submarines since 1998 and has funded most of them at a rate of two boats a year, but the two American nuclear shipyards have never delivered at that pace.
First Hunter-class frigate keel laid in Australia
BAE Systems Australia has laid the keel of NUSHIP Hunter, the first of Australia’s new Type 26 frigate-derived Hunter-class anti-submarine warfare vessels.
Local MSP turns blame on Ferguson Marine management
The SNP MSP for Inverclyde has questioned why management at Ferguson Marine failed to secure additional work, describing the announcement of job losses at the Port Glasgow yard as a wake-up call for the company's leadership.
