The UK MoD has cancelled earlier plans to fit an LDEW demonstrator to a Type 23 frigate. (Thales) The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has dropped plans to trial a laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) ...

The Royal Navy is carefully managing the transition of aging ships being replaced with modern alternatives, a defence ...

The disclosure by the UK government that one of its Type 23 frigates, HMS Sutherland, will soon return to operations after a ...

The UK government has taken initial steps in developing the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) new anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operational ...

HMS St Albans heads back out to sea after a longhaul refit at HMNB Devonport in Plymouth. (Crown Copyright) The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) Duke-class Type 23 frigate HMS ...

The move of the HMS Iron Duke to Plymouth now means that all of the UK's frigates are based in Devonport. Thats according to Luke Pollard, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, who has welcomed the ...

Once HMS Lancaster embarks for Britain, no major Royal Navy warship will be based in the Middle East for the first time in 45 years Five plumes of white spray shot into the air with all the force of ...

Babcock has been awarded the contract to manage the Type 23 class frigate Refit Support Group, allowing the company to take end-to-end responsibility for vessel upkeep and regeneration in preparation ...

Devonport dockyard bosses are working on a long-term plan for the facility amid reports its landmark frigate complex is too small for new warships. Industry sources say the under-construction Type 26 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK is in advanced talks to build warships for Denmark and Sweden, in a big potential boost to Scottish ...