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UK Carrier Strike Group embarks on historic deployment
Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier and fleet flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth has sailed from Portsmouth for her maiden operational deployment at the heart of the UK’s Carrier Strike Group after a farewell visit from Her Majesty The Queen.
Babcock awarded an extension to service the Royal Navy
Aerospace, defense and security company Babcock has secured a ten-year contract to continue delivering the marine rotating electrical machinery (MREM) asset availability service (AAS) to the Royal Navy.
France tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile
Procurement agency DGA has successfully tested an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), informs the French ministry of armed forces.
HMS Queen Elizabeth welcomes Merlin helicopters
HMS Queen Elizabeth has welcomed Merlin navy helicopters, designed for surveillance and submarine hunting operations, to serve as the airborne guardians during her maiden deployment.
HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group to visit 40 countries on 1st deployment
The UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth will visit more than one fifth of the world’s nations when it sails next month.
Royal Navy disposes of WW2 mine with a bang
Royal Navy’s bomb disposal experts detonated a mine from World War II, trawled up by fishermen in the Firth of Clyde. The team from Northern Diving Group, based at Faslane, sprang into action after the wartime device – laid by a German submarine off the island of Ailsa Craig – was recovered. The tra
UK, Dutch navies train for joint counter-narcotics ops
A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter worked with HNLMS Groningen of the Royal Netherlands Navy to get ready for operations together in the war against the illegal drugs trade in the Caribbean. The Wildcat of 815 Naval Air Squadron, from RFA Argus, carried out flying exercises with the Groningen, qualifyi
UK, US navies carry out mine hunting and countermeasures exercise
UK Royal Navy and U.S. Navy forces took part in a mine countermeasures (MCM) interoperability exercise in the Arabian Gulf Sept. 9-17. U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ships operated alongside mine countermeasures vessels from the Royal Navy in order to enhance interoperability, information sharing an
9 Russian ships escorted from waters close to UK
The Royal Navy informed that together with its NATO allies it has escorted nine Russian Navy warships during ‘heightened levels of activity’ in the waters close to the UK. Offshore Patrol Vessels HMS Mersey and HMS Tyne joined Type 23 frigate HMS Westminster in an operation that saw allied ships mon
Royal Navy survey ship to assess damage to Beirut’s port following deadly blast
Royal Navy survey ship HMS Enterprise will sail to Lebanon to assess the damage of Beirut’s port following Tuesday’s explosion and help return it to normal operations. The deployment of Enterprise will complement an immediate package of military and civilian support and £5m worth of aid, made availa
HMS Trent embarks on her 1st mission
HMS Trent, the third of the Royal Navy’s second-batch River-class offshore patrol vessels, has received her Commissioning Order in a ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Base before departing on her first operational deployment on Monday, August 3. She has sailed for the Mediterranean to add her weight to N
German Navy puts new Sea Lion helicopters into operation
On June 8, the German Navy started flight operations with the first new NATO Helicopter 90 naval transport helicopter (NH90 NTH) ‘Sea Lion’.
Recovery of Canadian ill-fated military helicopter concludes
The recovery operation for the Cyclone helicopter — Stalker 22 — in the Mediterranean Sea that was led by a combined Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and United States Navy (USN) team has concluded.
Naval Group teams up with 9 Australian firms on countermeasure solutions
French shipbuilder Naval Group has signed nine different memoranda of understanding (MoU) with Australian companies to manufacture its countermeasure solutions for the Royal Australian Navy in Australia. As informed, Naval Group Pacific is proposing a breakthrough in anti-torpedo countermeasures for