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New Royal Navy Type 31 Frigate HMS Venturer rolls out from her ship build hall into sunshine at Babcock's shipyard at Rosyth in Fife.

#OTD in 1945, FADM Chester Nimitz addressed the crew of HMS King George V to emphasize the vital role of the Royal Navy in winning the war in the Pacific. To further express U.S. appreciation of British efforts, Nimitz gave the crew an American ice cream machine.

#OnThisDay 1855 Royal Navy Lt’s Cecil Buckley & Hugh Burgoyne from HM Ships MIRANDA & SWALLOW, with Gunner John Robarts from HMS ARDENT landed to destroy 73 Russian Vessels, stores and provisions during Crimean War under heavy fire. All survived to receive their Victoria Cross.

Christ on a Stick 🤦‍♂️ Eleven months and the SDR big idea is: ‘more cyber’. Putin is quaking in his boots.

‘Stalin did a lot *to our nation’. Yes, he most certainly did. Old Soviet joke: ‘The future is certain, it is only the past that is unpredictable.’

Radar nerds close up! Interesting thread on the differences between T26 and 31 radars. Lack of command system commonality highlighted as a concern. This is less efficient, no doubt, but as someone who moved between DNA and ADAWS quite regularly (and we had CACS), I don’t think

British destroyer HMS Dragon gave the Russian intel-gatherer Yuri Ivanov close attention off the Outer Hebrides. Mine-hunters HMS Hurworth and HMS Ledbury along 814 NAS have been monitoring RFS Stoikiy in the English Channel as the Russian corvette escorted merchant vessels.

Chinese experts: Russia's strategic overreliance on non-military tools led it to adopt a lean force structure suitable to rapid presence/signaling operations but unsuited for protracted conventional operations. This led to faulty force modernisation, poor force employment and

And adding grist to the UK mill, as the SDR is about to be unveiled, is a 3-page piece in our current mag by MtarfaLee Suggests the Royal Navy must dive into Air-Independent Propulsion submarines too, bolstering SSNs & releasing them to range far & wide. warshipsifr.com/subscriptions/

It will be very interesting to observe how the FPDA develops within the wider context of the evolving regional order, especially as Britain & Australia are also part of AUKUS, & given the trend toward increasing minilateralism

Introducing the Jaguar. This British government film from 1979 describes the role of Jaguar fighters in RAF strike squadrons on the NATO frontline. This footage shows Jaguars of 14 Squadron flying over Germany, 'the frontiers of freedom'. Film: IWM COI 1117 <1/2>

Note the stunning efficacy of hiding individual combatant IDs by removing the hull number.

Someone from the UK MOD should tell the Russians - or the French and Italian amphibs currently exercising off Devonport - that LPDs/LPHs are obsolete now, because they’ll just be destroyed at range by air-/land-launched anti-ship weapons. Which we also don’t have.

By 2034!

Yesterday, HMS Mersey sailed through the Pentland Firth, passing Scapa Flow — from where the Grand Fleet sailed 109 years ago today to fight at the Battle of Jutland. We remember the courage and sacrifice of those who served at sea before us. ⚓️

On Battle of Jutland day, an extract from my book 'Warspite' Pen & Sword Books Insight into what it was like inside battleship HMS Warspite as she was hit by numerous German heavy shells. Cdr Humphrey Walwyn was her multi-tasked XO. Pics: Warspite at Scapa & some of her midshipmen.

Fascinating to see the defence secretary telling The Times that spending 3% on GDP by 2034 is a ‘commitment’ rather than an ambition - but will the Treasury commit to that path + detail it year by year? My blog explains why that matters markurban.substack.com/p/show-me-the-…

Quite right from Mark Urban Any meaningful funding increase has to be profiled and bankable - not based on loose promises of jam tomorrow - otherwise there is not the confidence to invest in the necessary supply chain capacity.

Mark Urban By 2034, nine long years away? Guaranteed to be overtaken by events. Five now.

The Strategic Defence Review: Setting a Course, Not a Procurement List Part 2/2 4. Reflecting National Identity and Learning from the Past The SDR must reflect the UK’s current national identity and strategic capacity, acknowledging that the era of large-scale overseas