Contracts worth £350m have been awarded today to UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines, sustaining hundreds of British jobs. The first Successor submarine is due to be delivered in 2028, replacing the Vanguard Class submarines which currently carry the UK’s nucle
Royal Navy sailors have fine-tuned their skills before they protect the Queen’s Royal Barge at the Diamond Jubilee. Sailors and Royal Marines took to a plethora of small boats and raiding craft to flank a pleasure cruiser which was standing in for the boat which the Queen will use for the June 3 pag
Service members from Algeria, Greece, Morocco, Turkey and the U.S. teamed up aboard guided-missile frigate USS Simpson (FFG 56) to conduct a mass casualty drill in support of Exercise Phoenix Express 2012 (PE12) in Souda Bay, Crete, May 18. The exercise gave participants the opportunity to demonstra
Russian Defense Ministry decided to prolong deployment of Black Sea Fleet (BSF) destroyer Smetlivy off Syria… (rusnavy) [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, May 22, 2012
Scheduled on May 25, first sortie of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya build by Russia for… (rusnavy) [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, May 22, 2012
FGS BREMEN has commenced her tour of duty patrolling the waters of the Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa as the tenth ship of the EU NAVAL FORCE (EU NAVFOR). Having left her home port of Wilhelmshaven on 7th May BREMEN arrives on station after a 14 day transit. Originally designed as a submarine [&hel
Some 2,500 personnel from the three Forces, led by the Royal Navy, paraded and mustered for the Queen at the first of this summer’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. They marched around the historic Berkshire town before forming up in the grounds of Windsor Castle for a drumhead service which concluded
French Navy supply officer cadets have seen how their counterparts in the Royal Navy are trained and operate during a visit to the Defence Maritime Logistics School (DMLS) at HMS Raleigh. The 13 cadets from the Ecole des Officiers du Commissariat de la Marine (EOCM), the French equivalent of the DML
Minister for Justice Equality & Defence, Mr. Alan Shatter, T.D., has announced that the building of new Naval Service offshore patrol vessels (OPV) ships is well underway. The keel laying ceremony of the first of two OPV’s took place at Babcock Marine’s shipyard in north Devon. Senior representative
A wounded Royal Navy medic who saved the lives of four colleagues after they were seriously injured in Afghanistan by a grenade attack in 2011 received a Military Cross this week from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. Despite shrapnel wounds to his leg and face, Medical Assistant (MA) Liam O’Grad
One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships, HMS Daring, has made an official stop in Saudi Arabia to reinforce the country’s strong relationship with the UK, Ministry of Defence announced on May 17. The Portsmouth-based Type 45 destroyer is on her first operational deployment in the Gulf where s
The public in Portsmouth caught their first glimpse of the giant forward section of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, as it was loaded out of the hall at BAE Systems’ facility at Portsmouth Naval Base in preparation for its departure to Rosyth. Using a fleet of remote controlled transporters, a team moved the 6,
Northern Fleet (NF) destroyer Admiral Chabanenko, Norwegian frigate Fridtjof Nansen and offshore patrol ship Senja on… (rusnavy) [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, May 18, 2012
The Navy’s No.1 helicopter display team, the Black Cats, are ready to perform for the Diamond Jubilee air show season after the head of the Fleet Air Arm approved their display. The two Lynx – instantly recognisable thanks to the distinctive cat emblems painted on their fuselage – will perform at mo
