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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Royal Marines deployed more than 400 miles into the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory as they spearheaded allied forces taking part in a major show of strength in the Indo-Pacific. More than ...

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, ...

Cold atoms were captured continuously throughout the trials, which involved several locations onboard HMS Pursuer. The trials highlighted areas that require further work, particularly magnetic ...

A UK warship has tracked a Russian submarine in the Channel – as part of a NATO mission to shadow Russian vessels. Ensuring the UK’s waters are secure, and the public protected, the Portsmouth-based ...

A monument to 835 men and boys killed in the first weeks of World War 2 has been dedicated with full military honours in Portsmouth. Veiled in White Ensigns which Royal Navy divers had recovered from ...

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 ...

Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Trent seized £160m of cocaine from a ‘narco-sub’ in the Caribbean Sea. In eight drugs busts in seven months, the Portsmouth-based patrol ship has stopped nearly £750m of ...