Royal Navy divers will use a new leading-edge submersible remote-controlled-vehicle – battle-proven in Ukraine – should they encounter mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Specialists from the Diving Threat ...
Uncrewed boats, underwater sensors and autonomous sonar equipment has been loaded onto support ship RFA Lyme Bay ahead of a potential mine-hunting mission in the Strait of Hormuz. The Royal Fleet ...
Six 19th-century coins and tokens have been discovered beneath the foremast of HMS Victory during the latest stage of the ship’s major conservation programme, HMS Victory: The Big Repair. The find was ...
From the hellish thunder of the guns of the Fleet on June 6 1944 to the peace and tranquillity of a UNESCO World Heritage site. What better way to celebrate a local hero on his 100 th birthday than to ...
More than £300m is being invested in the Royal Navy’s first ever laser weapon after it downed high-velocity drones in latest trials. The success of the latest firings has prompted Whitehall to sign a ...
The Royal Navy has used its new mini-helicopter drone for the first time on drug-hunting operations in the Middle East. At just three metres (10ft) long, yet capable of sorties lasting up to five ...
Britain’s premier naval deployment of 2025 ends this weekend as the ships, jets and helicopters of the UK Carrier Strike Group returns home. Families and well-wishers are expected to gather at air and ...
The UK’s premier naval deployment of 2025 is underway as ships departed ports in England and Norway, led by the nation’s flagship. Aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales was waved off by thousands of ...
Royal Marines emerged from the icy depths of an Arctic fjord on a German submarine to carry out a daring commando operation as part of major NATO mission rehearsals. Commandos surfaced around 200 ...
The last of the Royal Navy’s glorious Trafalgar-class attack submarines has arrived home in Plymouth for the final time before decommissioning. The seventh and last boat of the class, HMS Triumph, ...
HMS Diamond shot down a missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis from Yemen. The crew of the Royal Navy warship used her world-class Sea Viper missile system to shoot down the missile, which was ...
The largest number of UK F-35B Lightning jets ever assembled on either of the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers has been deployed to the Mediterranean for a major allied exercise. Flagship HMS Prince ...