
The Royal Navy has used a Puma drone to guide a crewed Merlin helicopter during a live operation in the Atlantic, marking the first time unmanned and manned aircraft have worked in tandem in this way.

The Type 45 destroyer, HMS Dragon, has destroyed a supersonic missile in a test off the coast of Scotland, in ‘a historic first’ for the Royal Navy.

The Royal Navy’s UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG), led by HMS Prince of Wales, has arrived off Italy’s southern coast to begin Exercise Med Strike with NATO allies, starting a major workout as part of its eight-month Indo-Pacific deployment.

The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless successfully shot down swarms of drones in a live-fire exercise.

The Royal Navy has used uncrewed technology to detect and gather information on underwater threats from an allied warship, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s (JMSDF) Uraga-class mine countermeasure vessel, for the first time.

The Royal Navy has used its new mini-helicopter drone for the first time on drug-hunting operations in the Middle East.

German technology corporation Rheinmetall has received a contract to supply training simulators to the German Navy.

During a scheduled sea mission, the Buyan-class (Project 21631) small missile ship Grad completed exercises at a combat training range in the Kaliningrad region.

The Middle East region’s largest maritime exercise, International Maritime Exercise (IMX) 2025, kicked off in two locations, Bahrain and Jordan, on February 10.

Minesweepers Yakov Balyaev and Pyotr Ilyichev from the Troops and Forces in the North-East used a Skanda uncrewed surface vehicle to search and neutralize maritime mines of the mock enemy while completing the K-2 task elements, according to the Russian Navy.

The U.S. Navy’s Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Savannah has participated in the French Navy-led multilateral training exercise La Perouse 2025, alongside other allied and partner nations, in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean.

The Royal Navy has taken a step closer to deploying autonomous mine-hunting technology on front-line operations after a successful trial with an autonomous boat in Scotland.

On December 14, a French Navy nuclear attack submarine (SNA) successfully fired an F21 torpedo at a real target, a decommissioned D’Estienne d’Orves-class aviso, Premier Maître L’Her.

On October 14, the Teseo MK2/E evolved missile system was test-fired for the first time as part of the multi-year development program for the Italian Navy, MBDA revealed.