The test firing took place last week and, according to the UK government announcement, the weapon, developed jointly by the United States and Australia, was launched from XV Excalibur. The event is ...

Thales has completed wet testing of its Sonar 76Nano flank panels on a full-size uncrewed underwater vehicle in UK waters, ...

HMS Anson arrived back on the Clyde this morning. This confirms no RN submarine has been deployed in support of the Carrier Strike Group deployment for the Indo-Pacific leg, and there are no RN SSNs ...

Speaking in Parliament today the Defence Secretary told Parliament in November he had authorised an RN submarine monitoring Russian spy ship Yantar to surface in close proximity. RFA Proteus gets up ...

The RN’s development of uncrewed underwater systems took a significant step forward with the formal unveiling of its first Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) today. Named XV Excalibur, ...

The Defence Nuclear Enterprise 2026 Update to Parliament published this week confirms that steel will be cut on the first RN SSN-AUKUS submarine in 2027, but leaves the size of the fleet to be decided ...

The latest model of the future River-class Destroyer (RCD), based on the Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigate design, was displayed to the public by the Royal Canadian Navy yesterday. Here we look briefly at ...

The UK’s new National Armaments Director (NAD), Rupert Pearce, used a speech at Thales UK’s technology summit to argue that Britain’s armed forces need a new mix of crewed and uncrewed capabilities ...

Yesterday, in an unusual evening ceremony, the first Merah Putih-class frigate for the Indonesian Navy was formally named. This vessel is based on Babcock’s Arrowhead 140 product (for which the Type ...

Russia has revived plans for a large destroyer-sized surface combatant intended for sustained operations in the world’s oceans. The ambition is considerable, but Moscow’s shipbuilding record, wartime ...

As first reported by Flight Global, Thales and Schiebel are preparing to arm the S-100 camcopter (Peregrine uncrewed rotary-wing aircraft in RN service) with Martlet air-to-surface missiles, as part ...