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With water brought all the way from the ocean where their ship now rests, veterans of HMS Sheffield watched her memorial dedicated – 40 years to the day she was fatally attacked. Penny Salt, whose late husband Captain ‘Sam’ Salt commanded the destroyer, anointed the new £15,000 monument at the National Memorial Arboretum with South Atlantic sea water. The monument…
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HMS Duncan is back at sea after a major overhaul that primes the Type 45 destroyer for the next five years at the sharp end of naval operations. The cutting-edge warship left her home of Portsmouth on Sunday for the first time since November 2019 and is now in the waters off the South Coast putting her revamped equipment and…
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Much like an app store found in a regular smart phone, the BAE Systems App Locker solution provides a configuration management and governance tool, storing applications which have been though an assured process. Apps hosted in the App Locker can be subsequently deployed into the Royal Navy Shared Infrastructure onboard a platform. Deploying new functionality in this way enables platforms…
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The future Royal Navy fleet today started to take shape as the construction of the first of five new frigates began. In the brand-new assembly hall in Rosyth dockyard in Scotland, the keel of HMS Venturer was laid in a ceremony which blended cutting-edge shipbuilding with naval history. The construction of the fleet will support around 2,500 jobs both at…
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A Royal Navy warship has been found by divers on the Scottish seabed – almost 105 years to the day it sank. Torpedo boat destroyer HMS Jason has not been seen since she struck a mine and sank off the island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides in April 1917. But after five years of research and surveying, the wreck…
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More than 3,000 sailors and Royal Marines were deployed deep inside the Arctic Circle – ashore, at sea and in the skies of Norway – to demonstrate the UK’s commitment to safeguarding Europe’s ‘northern flank’ against any aggressor. They joined more than 27,000 personnel, warships, armor, and air power from more than two dozen NATO allies and partners for Cold…
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation marks is 73rd anniversary today – with the Royal Navy at its heart. NATO was formed in the USA on April 4 1949 by 12 countries and now has 30 member states, 28 of which are in Europe. Currently the Royal Navy’s biggest warship HMS Prince of Wales is acting as NATO’s command ship for…
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We are thrilled to announce that HMS Caroline will remain in Belfast – her home for nearly 100 years. As many of you are aware HMS Caroline, a remarkable First World War survivor closed two years ago. With the help of the National Lottery Heritage Fund we have been able to reach an agreement with the Department for the Economy…
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Royal Navy Hawk T1 jets flew around the country this week to say farewell, as these veteran aircraft are retired from service. Based out of Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall, the fast jets have been a mainstay for decades in training Royal Navy and NATO ships in air defense. The BAE Systems Hawks have been used by the…
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Solar and wind-powered drones have been tested in the Gulf by a Royal Navy-led task force to bolster security. Sail drones – which look like sailboards, but are packed with cutting-edge sensors to monitor activity – were trialed in the approaches to Bahrain by the team running Operation Sentinel. The multi-national task force – commanded by the Royal Navy’s Commodore…
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