£10m investment in snowmobiles for Royal Marines
Royal Marines will strike faster and further across the Arctic snow thanks to a £10m investment in new snowmobiles for reconnaissance and raiding operations. The UK Commando Force is the nation’s specialist extreme cold weather troops, capable of surviving,
All-female team plan to make history to row the Atlantic
Five Royal Navy sailors will make history later this year as the first serving military women’s team to attempt to row the Atlantic Ocean. The five – known collectively as the Valkyries – face 3,000 miles of open seas
Royal Navy seizes nearly £300m of drugs in the Caribbean Sea
A Royal Navy warship seized £290.66m of cocaine and narcotics in two huge blows to drug runners in the Caribbean Sea. British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a suspected smuggling speedboat
Royal Navy join Japanese forces to battle cyber attacks
Royal Navy specialists joined forces with Japanese counterparts in Tokyo to fend off cyber attacks during a large-scale cyber battle exercise. Forty-one teams from 17 nations tested their cyber defence skills during the British Army’s Defence Cyber Marvel 3
Jets land on HMS Prince of Wales as Carrier Strike Groups starts to assemble
The UK’s most advanced air power – F-35 Lightning stealth fighters – have embarked on HMS Prince of Wales as the carrier prepares to join NATO allies on its biggest exercise in decades. For the first time, the 65,000-tonne
HMS Prince of Wales sails for key NATO exercise in Norway
Britain’s biggest warship today sailed for Norway to lead an international NATO exercise group in one of the most important military exercises in a generation. In just seven days, the Portsmouth-based aircraft carrier ship’s company made rapid preparations to
Protecting a Pacific paradise: Royal Navy ship helps Pitcairn islanders
Thunder shook paradise as the Royal Navy helped protect the environment of one of the most isolated islands on the planet the Pitcairn islanders. Patrol ship HMS Tamar spent five days in and around the tiny Pacific island of
Royal Marines get revamped raiding craft for new era of operations
Royal Marines will strike deeper and faster thanks to a revamped raiding craft for discrete commando operations. Being rolled out for use on front-line operations around the world, the Commando Raiding Craft (CRC) is a redesigned version of the
UK flagship deploys on historic NATO mission
UK flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth sails on Sunday to lead an international task group for an historic NATO exercise – the largest in Europe since the Cold War. The aircraft carrier will be at the heart of combined exercises
HMS Protector helps protect penguins in the Antarctic
Royal Navy sailors from HMS Protector are taking meticulous steps to avoid spreading dangerous bird flu to remote penguin colonies as the ice breaker carries out scientific and conservation work in Antarctica. Researchers have warned of ‘one of the