UK to send Royal Navy warship HMS Dragon
Digest more
A British F-35B has shot down a hostile drone over Jordan, marking the first time a British F-35 has destroyed a target on operations.
Operation Kipion has effectively been suspended as the Royal Navy has withdrawn its two vessels from the Gulf. The frigate HMS Lancaster was decommissioned in December 2025, and the minesweeper HMS Middleton left the Gulf the week before US and Israeli airstrikes began, to return to the UK.
Summary: The British government is investing in the Dreadnought-class SSBN submarines to revitalize the Royal Navy and maintain a credible nuclear deterrent. -These submarines, set to enter service in the 2030s, will replace the aging Vanguard-class.
In June 2025, the British Royal Navy dispatched a fleet of warships and helicopters to track a Russian vessel as it transited the English Channel and North Sea. One of the vessels sent to monitor the Russian ship was the HMS Duncan, a Type 45 destroyer ...
For nearly four centuries, a massive stone fortress stood just off India’s western coast and refused to bend to any empire that came for it. The Marathas launched 13 separate attempts to capture it.
The royals have a fair share of medals up their sleeves. These are the military forces responsible for the defence of the United Kingdom, as well as it’s Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. The armed forces include the British Army, Royal ...
The UK's Royal Navy is exploring the use of nuclear propulsion for large surface ships, with the Ministry of Defence issuing a Request for Information seeking insights from the defence industry on the feasibility of adding Generation-IV nuclear reactors to ...
Sydney Hudson is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Wilson Beaver is a Senior Policy Advisor for Defense Budgeting and NATO Policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security. British Royal Navy attack ...
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name change by the Royal Navy “woke nonsense” to avoid offending the French. “Renaming the HMS Agincourt is nothing short of sacrilege.
Portsmouth-based patrol ship HMS Tyne and a Wildcat helicopter shadowed sanctioned Russian cargo ships and their escorting warships through UK waters as part of a concentrated NATO effort