The Ministry of Defence has negotiated a brand new £1.4Bn contract for HMS Agamemnon – a state-of-the-art Royal Navy attack submarine intended to safeguard a new compliment of UK aircraft carriers. As part of the ‘Astute Class’, HMS Agamemnon is one of the largest and most advanced attack submarines to enter ...
Cohort company, SEA, has been contracted to provide further support for the Royal Navy with the upgrade of its Ambient Noise Prediction System (ANPS). The ANPS uses meteorological and oceanographic forecasts, together with oceanographic databases to produce regular forecasts of ambient noise conditions in the ocean, which helps the Royal Navy plan ...
The First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Philip Jones has confirmed that the Royal Marines will be restructured in order to better balance a growing Royal Navy. As part of the Navy’s regular review into its structure, it was identified that skills could be better balanced in the future particularly with £178 billion ...
THE head of NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command has claimed that Russia’s naval fleet is currently more active than at any time during the Cold War. Navy Admiral Michelle Howard raised concerns that the distributed nature of the deployments could end up “splitting and distracting” NATO. Howard, who heads NATO’s Allied Joint ...
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