Government confirm new Fleet Solid Support Ships treated as warships
This is important because the UK restricts the building of vessels classified as warships to British shipyards.
The Royal Navy’s Future Frigates – An Analysis
In this submission to the UK Defence Journal, Kelvin Curnow takes a look at the Type 26 and Type 31 Frigate programmes.
Type 31 Frigate gun contract awarded
BAE Systems will produce and deliver Bofors 40 Mk4 and Bofors 57 Mk3 naval guns for the Type 31 general purpose frigate programme.
What ships will make up the new British Carrier Strike Group?
HMS Queen Elizabeth and her escorts are forming the first British Carrier Strike Group to sail in around a decade, marking a serious return to carrier operations for Britain.
British Carrier Strike Group begins to form
Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will soon sail with a task group of nine vessels, including a nuclear submarine.
British and Dutch warships join together in the Mediterranean
British warships HMS Albion, HMS Dragon and RFA Lyme Bay met up with HNLMS Johan de Witt and HNLMS Rotterdam.
Royal Navy personnel in thanks to NHS staff
Royal Navy personnel took part in a short service to thank the work of frontline NHS staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carrier sails with most fifth gen jets ever deployed on a ship
HMS Queen Elizabeth will soon be joined by seven British destroyers, frigates and auxiliaries, plus other supporting units, to form a fully sovereign British Carrier Strike Group.
British strike group arrives in Gibraltar
Assault ship HMS Albion, destroyer HMS Dragon and landing ship RFA Lyme Bay have arrived in Gibraltar.
Second American nuclear submarine visits Clyde in two days
The USS Seawolf arrived in the Clyde one day after the USS John Warner departed.
