Tag: Royal Navy
Final Royal Navy River-class vessel heads home
HMS Spey, the fifth and final River-class batch 2 offshore patrol vessel (OPV), departed BAE Systems’ shipyard in Glasgow today on her...
Update: UK Special Boat Service team thwarts tanker hijack attempt off...
UK authorities are responding to an incident involving stowaways on a tanker off the Isle of Wight with many reports pointing to...
Royal Navy’s three fleet solid support ships will be British-built after...
UK MoD will require a significant proportion of the build and assembly work to be carried out in the UK.
Royal Air Force launches largest exercise in a decade
The UK Royal Air Force has kicked off exercise Crimson Warrior, its largest military exercise in over a decade that will gather...
UK carrier Queen Elizabeth back home after carrier strike group debut
Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has returned to Portsmouth after testing the carrier strike group concept during exercise Joint Warrior...
UK Royal Navy deploys first shipborne UAS on operations
Royal Navy flagship HMS Albion is the first Royal Navy warship to deploy with a Fleet Air Arm drone flight to support...
UK Royal Navy assembles international carrier strike group for first time
The carrier strike group is gearing up for a deployment in 2021.
13-nation naval drill Joint Warrior kicks off in the Atlantic
All ships taking part in the UK-led naval exercise Joint Warrior got underway for the second phase of the maneuver on October...
BAE lands contract for Royal Navy Type 31 frigate gun deliveries
BAE Systems has landed a contract for the delivery of multi-purpose gun systems for the Royal Navy's new Type 31 frigates that...
UK, US F-35Bs joining Royal Navy carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for...
F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) fighter jets from the Royal Air Force and United States Marine Corps (USMC) have left...
