A community portal about The Royal Navy with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services. From the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th...
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A community portal about The Royal Navy with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services. From the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th century, it was the largest and most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant power of the 19th and early 20th centuries. During the Cold War, it was transformed into primarily an anti-submarine force, hunting for Soviet submarines, being mostly active in the North Atlantic Ocean. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, its role for the 21st century has returned to focus on global expeditionary operations.
(Click Image to Enlarge) Dwarfing the harbour’s buildings, the Royal Navy’s newest warship entered her home port of Portsmouth for the first time this week
HMS Whoops! It’s Britain’s New £1bn Super-Ship, With iPod Stations And Luxury Quarters. One Problem… The State-Of-The-Art Missiles Don’t Work — The Daily Mail
At last, the Royal Navy has something to cheer about. As of today, it has a new and suitably menacing £1 billion ship which should form a central plank of Britain’s defences... Read Full Story
The British Navy’s £1bn+ Destroyers Set To Remain Unarmed For Years — The Register
Ex-British miracle missiles in new test FAIL. The “Sea Viper” missile system for the Royal Navy’s new Type 45 destroyers looks set to suffer further setbacks following a reported failure during test firings. The weapons are already so late that the first £1bn+ Type 45 has been in naval service for nearly a year – almost completely unarmed.
News of the test failure comes courtesy of the Ares blog... Read Full Story
The "Sea Viper" missile system for the Royal Navy's new Type 45 destroyers looks set to suffer further setbacks following a reported failure during test firings. The weapons are already so late that the first £1bn+ Type 45 has been in naval service for nearly a year - almost completely unarmed. News of the test failure comes courtesy of the Ares blog, reporting remarks by Andrew Tyler of the UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S;) organisation. Read more Read Full Story
Portsmouth, United Kingdom: A new generation of Royal Navy ships, designed to meet the UK's future defence, security and peacekeeping needs, is the focus of a £3.4 million contract awarded to BAE Systems by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Representing a step change for the UK maritime industry, the contract significantly reduces risk in the Future Surface Combatant (FSC) programme by enabling the joint project team to develop a better view of costs, schedules and design at an earlier stage... Read Full Story
The Royal Navy seized its largest ever cocaine haul in a drugs bust off the coast of South America, the Ministry of Defence announced Monday. The frigate HMS Iron Duke found a five and a half tonne stash, with a street value of 240 million pounds, smuggled on board an old fishing vessel. The Royal Navy crew spent more than 24 hours scouring the MV Cristal, eventually smashing through a concrete floor with sledgehammers and unbolting steel panels to uncover the hidden cargo. "This is the... Read Full Story
Israel has taken delivery of two German submarines ordered four years ago, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. "We have received two Dolphin-class submarines built in Germany," he said, on condition of anonymity. The submarines, called U212s, can launch cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads, although when it confirmed the sale in 2006 the German government said the two vessels were not equipped to carry nuclear weapons. The subs were ordered in 2005 and delivery was initially expected... Read Full Story
A new generation of Royal Navy ships, designed to meet the UK’s future defence, security and peacekeeping needs, is the focus of a £3.4 million contract awarded to BAE Systems by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Representing a step change for the UK maritime industry, the contract significantly reduces risk in the Future Surface Combatant (FSC) programme by enabling the joint project team to develop a better view of costs, schedules and design at an earlier stage than has been possible with... Read Full Story
A second Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer has left the Clyde and is on its way to its home port of Portsmouth. BAE Systems employees from the Clyde yards gathered in the early morning to wave Dauntless off. She is expected to enter Porstmouth on Wednesday where she will be officially handed over to the Royal Navy. Read more Read Full Story
HMS Astute launch The Royal Navy’s newest super-submarine, Astute, was launched today, 8 June 2007, by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria.
Astute is the first nuclear submarine to be launched in the UK for almost a decade. She has been built in the UK using the latest and most advanced naval engineering techniques. Construction has been described as more complex than that of the space shuttle.
Far bigger and more potent than the... Read Full Story
The biggest and most powerful attack submarine ever built for the Royal Navy – Astute – today sailed into her home base on the Clyde. Measuring nearly one hundred metres from bow to stern, Astute is longer than ten London buses. When fully loaded, she will displace 7,800 tonnes of sea water, equivalent to 65 blue whales. The Astute submarine has the latest stealth technology, a world-beating sonar system and is armed with 38 torpedoes and missiles – more than any previous Royal Navy... Read Full Story
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