It’s a crisp June evening in the Norwegian Sea. Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes ...

A UK warship shot down a supersonic missile in what the Royal Navy called a "historic first." The HMS Dragon warship "obliterated" the missile in a test off the coast of Scotland. The Type 45 air ...

HMS Diamond (D34) returned to the U.K. in June 2024 after a six-month deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Prosperity Guardian. Royal Navy photo The U.S. Navy awarded destroyer HMS ...

Plans to build new destroyers for the Royal Navy is currently being reviewed against a new strategy.

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.25136992.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25136992.2 Destroyers are small warships (defined in the London Treaty of 1930 as being no more ...

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 ...

The number of operational ships in the Royal Navy has fallen to a worryingly low figure.

HMS Duncan, the Royal Navy destroyer, is currently attached to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), which serves as the international military alliance’s main task force in the northern European ...