Navies swat down Houthi missile onslaught
The U.S. Navy and the U.K. Royal Navy have shot down a barrage of Houthi missile and drone attacks launched towards international shipping lanes in the Red Sea by Houthis this morning,
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U.K. to convert offshore construction vessel to subsea protection ship
As last year’s incident involving the Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic underscores, subsea infrastructure can be extremely susceptible to sabotage. The U.K. is taking the problem sufficiently seriously that last November it
U.K.’s Type 31 frigates to have MAN Alpha propeller systems
MAN Energy Solutions has won the contract to supply propeller equipment for five general-purpose frigates to be constructed for the U.K. Royal Navy by Babcock International Group. Each 138.7 meter twin screw
VIDEO: Babcock to build new class of U.K. frigates
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has chosen a team led by Babcock International Group PLC as the preferred bidder to deliver the Royal Navy’s new class of warships, the T31 general purpose
Salvors nabbed in illegal plunder of WWI shipwreck
AUGUST 24, 2018 —The owners and master of the Dutch-registered salvage ship Friendship were fined a total of £250,000 after being convicted of trying to illegally take steel and copper from a
U.K. sells Royal Navy’s flagship to Brazil for $118 million
FEBRUARY 20, 2018 — The U.K. has agreed the sale of its current flagship, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, to Brazil. According to the U.K. Ministry of Defence, she has been sold
U.K. unveils new National Shipbuilding Strategy
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 — U.K. Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has unveiled a new National Shipbuilding Strategy that sets out plans for the first batch of Type 31e frigates. The strategy is
New CHP Plant to cut energy costs at U.K. naval base
AUGUST 6, 2017—A new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant at Portsmouth Naval Base in the U.K. that will recycle energy, is expected to save the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense up to
VIDEO: U.K.’s largest ever warship starts sea trials
JUNE 26, 2017 — HMS Queen Elizabeth, the U.K. Royal Navy’s first QE Class aircraft carrier, set sail from BAE System’s Rosyth shipyard today to commence first stage sea trials off the
BAE Systems cuts time of RN minesweeper refits
JUNE 19, 2017 — BAE Systems reports that a U.K. Royal Navy minesweeper, HMS Brocklesby, has begun her sea trials program, a significant milestone in her overaul period, four months earlier than