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AN ex-Royal Navy serviceman is cycling more than 500 miles down to Portsmouth for charity. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited access to the website ...
The largest of the RN Type 42 destroyers, it was launched in 1983 and will have completed 30 years of service . The Royal Navy’s destroyer HMS Edinburgh left on Monday Portsmouth on her final ...
Take the new "Type 45" stealth destroyer Back in the 1800s, Britain's bellicose boast might have been true -- but Britain's Royal Navy is fast disappearing from the world's oceans.
World's most advanced destroyer handed to Royal Navy. ... and are 45 per cent more fuel-efficient than the Type 42 destroyers that they are replacing in a £6 billion project. ...
GEORDIE gunboat HMS Newcastle has been one of the big crowd-pullers at this year's Southampton Boat Show, with thousands of visitors climbing aboard. It's the first time the Royal Navy's longest ...
Updates on the new Type 83 destroyers, which are due to replace their new Type 45 counterparts in the Royal Navy fleet, will be announced in the near future.
As the maritime fleet aims at the enemy they need a guardian - which is where the Type 42 destroyer comes into its own, forming the backbone of the Royal Navy's air-defence power ...
Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer's downing of drone hailed after first attack in 12 years A royal Navy warship has carried out its first shot in anger since the Libyan campaign 12 years ago after ...
During the Gulf War, the Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester used Sea Dart missiles to destroy an Iraqi silkworm anti-ship missile that was targeting an American warship.
HMS Dauntless, one of the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) most advanced warships, took part in an extensive anti-uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) live-firing test off the coast of Wales in early April. The test was ...