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HMS Lancaster today left Portsmouth – and won’t see her home base again until at least 2025 as she begins an extended mission. The ‘Queen’s Frigate’ – launched by Her Majesty in 1990 and named after h ...

The UK’s Royal Navy is scrambling to determine the scope of the mechanical problem aboard its newest aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales after an embarrassing incident in which one of the two largest ...

In the seas off the island of Guam, five nations have combined to test their maritime warfare skills during Exercise Pacific Vanguard 2022, with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) achieving successful mi ...

On the first anniversary of the AUKUS pact, acting Prime Minister and defence minister Richard Marles revealed that the country is on track to be able to make the announcement about the final design a ...

Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Kent has completed a test-firing exercise using most of her weapon systems, including the launching of its lightweight Sting Ray torpedo as part of the exercise. To pr ...

The Royal Navy is seeking an Uncrewed Surface and Subsurface Vessel (USSV) prototype for maritime commando operations. The navy requires the vessel to transition quickly from surface to subsurface on ...

According to Shin, defects in the inverter modules’ cables were found on 7 of the Son Won-il class submarines, while 2 of them had “functional” defects in the inverter modules themselves. The modules, ...

Frigate HMS Kent has undergone an ‘MOT’ to ensure she’s ready for the next stage of her autumn operations. The Portsmouth-based ship had a series of deep-dive checks at a NATO facility in Stavanger, N ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reiterated his country’s commitment to expanding Japan’s defense capabilities to deal with those who would jeopardize the peace and security of other countries, in ...

Damen Naval has selected German technology group Rheinmetall to supply eight state-of-the-art MLG27-4.0 defence systems for the F126 frigates the shipyard is building for the German Navy. Each frigate ...