HMS Echo joins international exercise in Cyprus
HMS Echo was invited to join ships and aircraft from half a dozen nations off Cyprus for two days of combined training.
HMS Westminster conducts her first refuelling with new tanker Tidespring
Much of HMS Westminster’s ship’s company had not participated in a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) before – after all the last RAS that HMS Westminster had conducted was in November 2017 with RFA Wave Knight say the Royal Navy.
Royal Navy trials new autonomous boat
Motor boat Hussar can be sent off on missions, using a series of small, hi-tech boats trailed behind it to detonate the latest underwater explosive devices – potentially clearing minefields en masse.
Royal Navy leads multinational task force in major drugs bust
Combined Task Force 150 (CTF150), commanded by a UK team, oversaw three successful drugs busts in three days last week, all carried out by the Australian Navy ship HMAS Warramunga.
HMS Prince of Wales ship control centre handed over to crew
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance has successfully signed over the Ship’s Control Centre of HMS PRINCE OF WALES to her crew, 18 months ahead of when the ship is due to be delivered to the Royal Navy.
HMS Queen Elizabeth sails for second phase of helicopter trials
HMS Queen Elizabeth has sailed to conduct further trials ahead of her first visit to the United States later this year.
HMS Talent readies to rejoin fleet
HMS Talent, one of the Royal Navy's Trafalgar class submarines, has begun training after an extensive refit in Devonport.
BAE Systems to provide additional payload tubes for new Virginia class subs
BAE Systems has received a contract to produce payload tubes for two of the U.S. Navy’s new Virginia class submarines to support increased firepower on the Block V version of the attack subs.
Denmark brings drone tech to BALTOPS
Denmark has been operating with Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1) over the last several weeks, employing the Danish modular mine hunting system to keep sailors out of the minefield while hunting for naval mines.
HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark ‘are safe’ from cuts
Speaking during a debate called by Luke Pollard, Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Guto Bebb confirmed that the two Albion class assault ships would be safe from cuts.
