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Babcock continues its successful delivery of the Royal Navy Type 31 frigates, with the laying of the keel for HMS Active, the second of the five-ship Inspiration class programme. This marks the move into the programme’s multi-ship phase which sees two warships being built simultaneously, with work continuing only metres away ...
Thales Glasgow has been awarded a contract to provide periscopes to the next-generation of Dreadnought submarines. Thales has been providing the Silent Service with their ‘eyes’ since World War 1, this new contract will see Thales Glasgow deliver state-of-the-art ‘optronic masts’ – 21st Century successors to the iconic periscope – for ...
Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS TAMAR, one of the Royal Navy’s most modern ships, has visited the Solomon Islands. An OPV permanently deployed to support the countries of the Pacific region through UK defence engagement, this will be HMS Tamar’s inaugural visit to the Solomon Islands after her sister ship, ...
A new minehunting ‘mothership’ and its drone companions, have been trialled together for the first time. In a milestone first for the Royal Navy, the ship and autonomous vessels worked together in an exercise to test the effectiveness of this combination and ability of the mothership – RFA Stirling Castle, to ...
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