The Sting Ray lightweight anti-submarine torpedo, the RN’s primary ASW weapon, is being upgraded to Mod 2 standard. In this article, we look at this programme and aspirations for various torpedo delivery methods
Following her return to the UK in July (and some well-deserved leave for her ship’s company), we were invited on board HMS Diamond to speak to the Commanding officer, Cdr Pete Evans. Here provide some more details about what was arguably the RN’s most intense warship deployment in more than a decade.
At the Farnborough Airshow this week, GA-ASI unveiled its GAMBIT 5 catapult-launched Uncrewed Combat Air Vehicle concept for aircraft carriers. Here we look briefly at the idea and its potential for use by the Royal Navy.
NavyX sits within the RN’s Develop Directorate and is responsible for testing and trialling new technology with them aim of delivering new capabilities to the fleet faster than by traditional routes. Here we take an overview of NavyX’s work.
Following confirmation that the Royal Navy’s MRSS programme will go ahead, Steller Systems has announced their Fearless concept as an alternative approach to the design and a starting point for discussion.
In late March it was announced that the SEA Ancilia system had won the competition to develop a new trainable decoy launcher for the RN. In this article we look at the background and the winning bid.
In this article we summarise the current status of the RN’s surface combatants.More
Here we summarise recent progress with the Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigate programme and the £300 million shipyard infrastructure investments being made by BAE Systems in Glasgow.
There have been a swathe of negative news stories about the RN in the last 6 months and received wisdom is that the Navy is in terrible shape. While facing enormous challenges, the outlook is not all bleak and here we highlight some reasons to believe the RN is still a very credible fighting force.