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The UK’s premier naval deployment of 2025 is underway as ships departed ports in England and Norway, led by the nation’s flagship. Aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales was waved off by thousands of ...

One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships shot down swarms of drones in a live-fire exercise off the Welsh coast. Taking on the kind of threats currently seen in the Red Sea and other regions, ...

Royal Marines from the UK Commando Force have been issued a new rifle for specialist operations, including counter-terrorism. More than 1,500 Sig Sauer MCX rifles have been purchased by the Navy, ...

For the first time a fleet of drones will fly crucial supplies between ships of the UK Carrier Strike Group when it deploys to the Indo-Pacific later this month. Alongside its F35B stealth jets and ...

Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales is leading warships, aircraft and a submarine of the UK Carrier Strike Group into the Mediterranean ahead major allied exercises. Approaching the Strait of ...

The Royal Navy has used its new mini-helicopter drone for the first time on drug-hunting operations in the Middle East. At just three metres (10ft) long, yet capable of sorties lasting up to five ...

Nine Royal Navy helicopters will be the eyes and ears of the UK Carrier Strike Group on its deployment to the Indo-Pacific over the next eight months. The Merlin helicopters from 820 Naval Air ...

The Royal Navy’s experts in finding, identifying and removing underwater threats have trialled current and future technologies during a series of tests off the Virginia coast. Sailors from the navy’s ...

HMS Portland has become the second Royal Navy warship to be fitted with new missiles capable of taking out enemy ships at ranges of more than 100 miles away. The Plymouth-based frigate follows the ...

We have lost one of the last links with brave men who sought to make post-war Europe safe with the passing of Boyd Salmon at the age of 100. Mr Salmon was one of the last surviving members of ...

The Royal Navy has today unveiled its first uncrewed submarine – paving the way for how the UK could operate in the underwater battlespace. The 12m experimental vessel, displacing 19 tonnes and at two ...