The 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier and its crew of more than 800 sailors will work with allied forces on collective defence, deterrence and crisis-response operations.
The Royal Navy deployed four ships and a Merlin helicopter during a 72-hour operation to monitor Russian naval and commercial vessels moving through UK waters.
Britain’s armed forces held 285 Challenger 2 tanks, 47 F-35B fighters and 73 naval vessels in the latest government inventory.
The Dreadnought Alliance says a new £8.4 billion funding phase will move Britain’s nuclear submarine replacement programme from construction towards operational delivery.
The Royal Navy has flown a Malloy T-150B heavy-lift drone from a River-class Batch 2 patrol ship for the first time.
Britain’s Dreadnought ballistic missile submarine programme supports approximately 30,000 jobs across the country, according to the industrial alliance delivering the project.
Royal Navy Lt. Richard Woods is the first British pilot to serve as an instructor on the carrier-based F-35C.
Britain plans to expand its fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines to as many as 12 as it completes the Astute-class programme and develops its SSN-AUKUS successor.
Amentum has joined a five-year Babcock International engineering services framework supporting critical UK defense programs across nuclear, marine, land, aviation and mission systems.
The UK trial used independent quantum timing sources to keep radars at separate locations synchronised when satellite-based timing was unavailable or compromised.
BAE Systems has secured a £135 million contract to maintain and repair Royal Navy torpedoes through June 2029, sustaining 315 skilled jobs across the UK.
Royal Navy warships and helicopters spent 21 days monitoring Russian naval activity in UK waters and the North Atlantic during July.
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