A submarine-hunting robot helicopter designed to help the Royal Navy is to be trialled this summer. The autonomous Proteus drone, which has been developed by defence company Leonardo, is meant to ...

A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine was used to warn off one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spy ships operating around UK waters. The hunter-killer submarine was ordered to surface ...

THE FINAL signal sent by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is etched in the minds of officers in the Royal Navy: “Engage the enemy more closely”. But has the Nelsonian spirit ...

The Royal Navy's £2.5 billion plan for five new warships set to make the UK "the foremost naval power in Europe" is in its concept phase, the Ministry of Defence has confrimed. Five frigates are ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...

A planned memorial to the Royal Navy’s role in ending the slave trade is in limbo after it was rejected by a string of proposed sites. Campaigners raised £70,000 to build a statue commemorating ...

A US Navy destroyer operating in the Red Sea last year used its five-inch deck gun to shoot a Houthi drone out of the sky, a top commander revealed this week. The American destroyer, USS Stockdale ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. The Royal Canadian Navy set out on its first-ever deployment to Antarctica Friday, but it wasn’t leaving tradition behind. As HMCS Margaret Brooke left the ...

The destroyer Rafael Peralta fires its Mark 45 5-inch light-weight gun during a live-fire exercise while operating in the Philippine Sea in January 2023. (MC1 Greg Johnson/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since. With the final retirement of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships in ...

Weapons dating back to the 1600s which belonged to a naval captain from Orkney have been gifted to the islands. Captain James Moodie died in 1725. He had received a scimitar and scabbard, a mace, and ...

The first battle between Germany and Britain in World War One took place not on the muddy ... would make important bases for Germany's navy and global communication network. But this would also ...