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Using data to predict and support the future Royal Navy 

Homeland September 26, 2024

Helping the Royal Navy maintain a skilled and capable workforce amid rapid technological advancements and demographic shifts. The Royal Navy needs to maintain a skilled and capable workforce in the face of rapid technological advancements and demographic shifts so that it can draw on the right people with the right skills ...

Defence Secretary backs Britain’s nuclear deterrent

Homeland September 19, 2024

New Government pledges the ‘triple lock’ on the nuclear deterrent will safeguard Britain and NATO for “generations to come”, as Defence Secretary John Healey joined Royal Navy submariners on the UK’s nuclear deterrent returning home from at-sea patrol. In his first visit to Scotland since being appointed, the Defence Secretary boarded ...

Royal Navy trial smallest ships as a launchpad for mine hunting operations

Maritime July 4, 2024

The Royal Navy has successfully used its smallest warships as a launchpad for autonomous mine hunting operations for the first time. Seven P2000 patrol vessels of the Coastal Forces Squadron deployed on NATO’s annual Baltic exercise – known as Baltops 24 – during which 50 ships, dozens of aircraft and 9,000 ...

Babcock takes on full Type 23 upkeep responsibility

Maritime May 7, 2024

Babcock International Group, the defence company, has been awarded the contract to manage the Type 23 class frigate Refit Support Group, allowing the company to take end-to-end responsibility for vessel upkeep and regeneration in preparation for handover to the ship’s crew. This innovative change follows more than five years of close ...