Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has unveiled an ambitious new National Shipbuilding Strategy that will see the construction of five new Type 31e General Purpose Frigates. The Strategy is a response to Sir John Parker’s independent report published last year into British naval shipbuilding, which proposed far-reaching recommendations to transform the UK ...
The US and Singaporean navies have concluded the first bilateral Exercise Pacific Griffin. The training exercise took place between 19 August and 2 September 2017 as part of ongoing efforts to explore new training spaces and opportunities for both navies. The exercise, which saw planning for its execution begin last year, consisted ...
Royal Navy warship HMS Diamond has set sail from Portsmouth Naval Base for a nine-month operational deployment in the Gulf. The destroyer left her home port to cheering crowds on the Round Tower and received a flypast from a Wildcat helicopter based with 815 Naval Air Squadron in Royal Naval Air ...
Royal Navy mine hunter HMS Penzance has returned to her Scottish base of operations after spending three years playing her part in protecting vital waterways in the Gulf. The Faslane ship is a Royal Navy Sandown class Mine Counter Measures Vessel (MCMV) and clocked up over 7,500 hours at sea and ...
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