The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that the £850 million Sea Ceptor missile system responsible for protecting Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers has officially entered service. The system provides a powerful shield against airborne threats, including hostile combat jets, helicopters and other missiles, and has been developed and manufactured through ...
The Royal Navy has taken delivery of an autonomous minesweeper system that can safely clear sea lanes of mines, the Defence Minister Guto Bebb has announced. The system has been designed and manufactured by Atlas Elektronik UK in Dorset, under a £13 million contract with the Ministry of Defence which has ...
Information Warrior 2018, a three-week exercise exploring emerging technologies and the myriad ways they are shaping Royal Navy operations at sea, has officially drawn to a close. At Portsdown Technology Park in Portsmouth, QinetiQ created an advanced digital environment to host Information Warrior 2018. Here, new methods of communication were trialed, ...
Government inspectors have described apprenticeships provided by the Royal Navy to sailors and Royal Marines as ‘outstanding’. The team from Ofsted gave the Royal Navy the same high mark in every category in which they assessed the way the Senior Service trains, nurtures, encourages and supports would-be engineers, chefs, logisticians, warfare ...