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The Royal Navy is banking a state-of-the-art launcher to protect its stealthy ships with even stealthier, hush-hush decoys. The £135 million (US$170 million) Ancilia Trainable Decoy Launcher project will counter the latest missile and drone threats.Con… Continue reading Stealthy Royal Navy ships will be hidden by stealthier decoy launchers
In a newly declassified video, the UK’s £100 million (US$127 million) DragonFire laser weapon can be seen going through its paces as it blasted test bench and field targets, including drones and mortar rounds.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, Technol… Continue reading Declassified video shows DragonFire laser weapon in action
Britain has fired its Dragonfire high-powered laser weapon at aerial targets for the first time. The test of the Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) on the Ministry of Defence’s Hebrides Range was designed to demonstrate its power and accuracy.Continue… Continue reading Britain’s Dragonfire laser weapon engages first aerial targets
The US, UK, and Australian governments have issued a joint statement outlining the AUKUS treaty plan to provide the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) with nuclear-powered attack submarines, which includes the development of a new British-designed AUKUS-class… Continue reading Australia to receive new design nuclear submarine under AUKUS treaty
BAE Systems Autonomous Pacific 24 (AP24) Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) has taken a major step from development to deployment, the robotic naval vessel being awarded Lloyd’s Register Unmanned Marine Systems Certification for its design and construction.Co… Continue reading BAE System’s robotic boat gets world-first Lloyd’s certificate
The Royal Navy has awarded a £15.4-million (US$18.9-million) contract to MSubs to build a cutting-edge robotic submarine, called Cetus, that will be the largest in Europe and will be capable of diving deeper than conventional submarines.Continue Readin… Continue reading Royal Navy awards contract for Europe’s largest crewless submarine
The first of the Royal Navy’s Type 26 City Class frigates, HMS Glasgow, has begun a very slow launch at BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard in Scotland. Rather than sliding into the water with a dramatic splash, the 6,000-tonne warship will be shifted through … Continue reading Royal Navy’s first Type 26 frigate is launched – very, very slowly
The Royal Navy’s 700X Naval Air Squadron has completed intensive testing of heavy-lift drones at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall, UK, to determine their fitness for resupplying aircraft carriers and other frontline naval operations.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Royal Navy tests heavy-lift drones to supply aircraft carriers
Britain’s supercarrier HMS Prince of Wales has become the first surface ship to be equipped with a state-of-the-art atomic clock as it departs for the Exercise Cold Response 2022 NATO joint exercises off the north coast of Norway.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading HMS Prince of Wales becomes first surface ship to carry an atomic clock
Filling a gap in the UK Carrier Strike Group screen protecting the supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, a Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter successfully fired Martlet lightweight missiles for the first time during frontline operations. Deployed from HMS Defen… Continue reading Royal Navy fires new Martlet missiles at sea to demo carrier defenses