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Navy goes forward with new HMS Birmingham as Type 26
Apr 4, 2023 · Birmingham is the first of the second batch of five frigates which will complete the class – Sheffield, Newcastle, Edinburgh, London – to join the original trio of HMS Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast already under construction.
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New ships to support Royal Navy carrier groups
Nov 16, 2022 · Wherever HMS Queen Elizabeth or HMS Prince of Wales go, they will be accompanied by one of three ‘solid support ships’ – providing ammunition, spare parts and supplies to sustain the carriers and their task groups thousands of miles from the UK.
The latest of the Royal Navy's advanced attack submarines sails for …
Feb 20, 2023 · The latest of the Royal Navy's advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines, HMS Anson, has left the shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness where she was built ahead of sea trials.
Royal Navy fires new missile from attack helicopters for the first time
Oct 9, 2024 · The Royal Navy has now completed the first guided firing of the anti-ship Sea Venom missile – which packs ten times the punch of Martlet, with the design of destroying more heavily armoured ships – on a target vessel at the Aberporth range in Wales.
HMS Prince of Wales heads to USA to shape future of naval
Sep 1, 2023 · HMS Prince of Wales departs Portsmouth for the Eastern Seaboard of the USA to revolutionise the way the Royal Navy operates Carrier Strike Groups. • and increased the range and conditions in which the US Marine Corps’ impressive …
Commandos guide F-35 fighters on live bombing run - Royal Navy
Oct 18, 2024 · Commandos have guided F-35 stealth fighters on a live bombing run during a major exercise in the North Sea. Garvie Island – a rocky outcrop off Cape Wrath at the north-west tip of Scotland – was hit by four 500lb Paveway bombs, dropped by pilots from 809 Naval Air Squadron operating from HMS Prince of Wales and RAF 207 Squadron, based at ...
Royal Navy’s UK Carrier Strike Group assembles in the North Sea …
Oct 14, 2024 · A powerful Royal Navy task group of stealth jets and warships has assembled in the North Sea to complete critical preparations for a major global deployment in 2025. The UK Carrier Strike Group with HMS Prince of Wales as its focal point is off the coast of Scotland to carry out Exercise Strike Warrior – military drills that will confirm that ...
Jets land on HMS Prince of Wales as Carrier Strike Groups
Feb 20, 2024 · The F-35 fighter jets of joint RAF and Royal Navy 617 Squadron, ‘the Dambusters’ landed on the aircraft carrier while she was sailing in the North Sea after leaving their home base of RAF Marham, in Norfolk.