Babcock International successfully completed the refit of Royal Navy’s HMS Penzance minehunter vessel at our Rosyth site, the British shipyard said on March 13.
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MoD) issued a prior information notice (PIN) for a Next Generation Surface Ship Guided Weapon (SSGW) contract for the Royal Navy.
British company Prevail Partners is the first to officially unveil its design proposal for the Royal Navy’s two future Littoral Strike Ships announced earlier this month by the UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson.
The British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has awarded a £235M (US$309M) contract to support the Royal Navy submarines nuclear propulsion systems, the UK MoD announced yesterday.
UK’s Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced on February 25 that the third Dreadnought-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) of the Royal Navy will be named ‘HMS Warspite’.
The future home of the UK’s P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft is on target for completion, the Royal Air Force stated on Feb. 22, 2019. Once established the facility will hold up to three aircraft, along with maintenance facilities, planning rooms, and office space for the operators and support staff.
Royal Navy Tidesurge tanker has been welcomed to the fleet today with a dedication service at Greenock’s Ocean Terminal, the service announced on Feb. 20, 2019. The tanker is the latest of four new Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships acquired under the 450M£ (US$588M) MARS Tanker programme.
British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, speaking on February 11, 2019 at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) in London, announced plans to procure two “Littoral Strike Ships” amphibious vessels for the Royal Navy
UK’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Underwater Electronic Warfare (UEW) Delivery Team (DT) is considering a “full technical refresh and modernisation” of the Magazine Torpedo Launch System (MTLS) Control System aboard eight Type 23 frigates in the Royal Navy fleet.
As part of the tender process for the introduction of the new Type 31e frigate generation, thyssenkrupp Marine Systems is one of the selected suppliers in the final design and offer phase in a consortium led by ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK including ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH and with British shipyards Harland & Wolff and Ferguson Marine Engineering. This was announced by the Royal Navy in London in December 2018.
