Beginning work on the first of their new class of support ships allowed Royal Fleet Auxiliary sailors to dip into the service’s past. Personnel attending the steel cut for RFA Resurgent, the lead ship ...

The past met the future in Rosyth as the third of the Royal Navy’s Type 31 frigates begins to take shape. The keel of HMS Formidable has been laid in a ceremony merging naval tradition with modern ...

The UK has unveiled work on its ground-breaking Atlantic Bastion programme, which will make Britain more secure from Russian undersea threats in the North Atlantic through a transformation of the ...

The speech by the First Sea Lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins KCB OBE RM, to the International Sea Power Conference in London on December 08 2025 Thank you, Minister. This is not a normal conference.

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 ...

Royal Marines launched covert boarding missions in the eastern Baltic Sea as they sharpened specialist skills ahead of operating with NATO in an entirely new way. The Commandos are working towards ...

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 ...

Quantum technology was deployed on an uncrewed submarine in a milestone trial for the Royal Navy. Testbed submarine XV Excalibur went to sea with Infleqtion’s quantum optical atomic clock on board – ...

A specialist mine hunting ship has sailed for the first time as a Royal Navy warship after leaving Merseyside. Four months after she was handed over from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, HMS Stirling Castle ...

Britain’s latest supersonic missile is fully ready for front-line action after completing extensive trials during an ‘explosive autumn’ of tests and exercises. During the final day and night trials ...

The Royal Navy joined industry experts and defence specialists to prove its ability to use autonomous and uncrewed technology to boost Digital and Information Warfare. Crewless boats controlled from ...

Royal Marines have stress tested their ability to carry out amphibious operations anywhere in northern Europe as part of notable allied military drills. A ten-day workout in the Arctic fjords around ...