Royal Navy task force in major Middle East exercise
The largest Royal Navy task group in the Middle East in 15 years has assembled for Exercise Saif Sareea 3.
Frigate HMS Montrose to be based in the Middle East
Type 23 Frigate HMS Montrose is to be forward-deployed in the Middle East.
Royal Navy vessels take part in major NATO exercise
Frigates HMS Northumberland and Westminster are joining minehunters Cattistock, Hurworth, Grimsby and Ramsey, along with survey ship Enterprise for Trident Juncture 18, say the MoD.
NATO naval forces Prepare for Trident Juncture
NATO mariners met this week in Trondheim, Norway aboard Dutch amphibious ship HNLMS Johan de Witt.
Operation Sea Guardian patrols the Mediterranean
NATO ships supported by submarines provided by Turkey, Italy, Romania, Spain and Greece in cooperation with maritime patrol and airborne early warning aircraft, recently conducted a focused security patrol in the Mediterranean Sea October.
Royal Navy frigate fleet may be expanded hints Defence Secretary
The Ministry of Defence is looking at the size and composition of frigate fleet as part of the Modernising Defence Programme, hinting that there could be more than 5 Type 31e frigates with some even having ASW capabilities.
HMS Queen Elizabeth’s Merlin helicopters to exercise with US Navy
820 Naval Air Squadron are sending helicopters to the Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Centre, to take part in tactical development and training alongside...
US supercarrier enters Arctic Circle for first time in nearly 30 years
For the first time in nearly 30 years, a US supercarrier has entered the Arctic Circle to conduct operations in the Norwegian Sea.
F-35B completes first round of testing aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Queen Elizabeth and her first F-35B jets have completed opening phase of the First of Class Flight Trials.
Faulty welding found on missile tubes for new British and American ballistic missile submarines
Substandard welding has been found in missile tubes bound for the US and Royal Navy's new ballistic missile submarines.
