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The battleship HMS Valiant at the Duncan dock in Cape Town. Valiant was 1 of 3 Queen Elizabeth class battleship to be extensively modernized just prior to the WW2. Valiant received 1 of the most comprehensive modernizations along with her sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth

Big win for #Type45 engineering! ⚓ HMS Duncan just completed the first full in-water replacement of A bracket bearings, no dry dock needed. Thanks to our partners SeaTec we're saving time, cutting costs & boosting availability. 💡🔧🌊 #Innovation #RoyalNavy #Defence

Not all UK military ships come in Grey. Here is one of the UK Strategic Ro-Ros making a vital stop at BDSSU. Royal Navy Strategic Command UK in Singapore 🇬🇧

Royal Navy & RFA status update. Was a few months out of date so had to update the whole thing, so let me know if you spot anything and I'll repost with corrections. Still only took an hour to do completely.

Royal Navy Fleet Tracker - 17th of June 2025 UK Carrier Strike Group and HMS Tamar now in the Indian Ocean. HMS Trent sailed from Gibraltar on the 14th and will return to the UK for training. Possible HMS Middleton is back alongside in Bahrain today.

🚨 All U.S. Navy ships forward-deployed at NSA Bahrain leave port At least 1x Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and 4x Mine Countermeasure (MCM) ships, as well as special operations mothership M/V Ocean Trader, are underway in the U.S. Central Command AOR.

RRR9402 (ZZ343) currently tanking more Typhoons out to RAF Akrotiri. If she remains there that will be 4 tankers at Akrotiri (ZZ330, ZZ338 and ZZ333 already there) plus in all likelihood more than a dozen Typhoons flightradar24.com/RRR9402/3ada62…

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has partnered with Saab to develop an airborne early warning (AEW) mission capability for its MQ-9B family of remotely piloted aircraft Story by Richard Scott navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

In all, Wellington lost 3,163 dead, 9,355 wounded, 2,298 missing. Blücher lost 1,226 dead, 4,287 wounded, 1,373 missing. Napoleon lost 5,000 dead, 18,000 wounded, 8-10,000 captive, 15,000 missing, 220 guns, 2 Eagles & with it his last chance to hold power, at a great cost to

Wildcat helicopter landed on HMS Dragon while alongside in Portsmouth yesterday. Via Steve A Wenham

On 15 August, we’re hosting a Service of Remembrance to commemorate VJ Day 80 at the @‌Nat_Mem_Arb. Veterans who contributed to the campaigns in the Far East and the Pacific, or their families on their behalf, can register to join the commemorations here: spklr.io/VJDay80-X

Great read for anyone interested in the RN submarine service in the Cold War era. Conveys its strengths and weaknesses and what it was really like serving from the mid-1960s through to the late 80s.

Twelve US Air Force F-22 Raptors have arrived at RAF Lakenheath, supported by a large-scale aerial refuelling operation ahead of a possible strike on Iran. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/stealth-f-22-j…

Introduction to UK GBAD Status 1/25 The UK’s ground-based air defence (GBAD) relies on the Sky Sabre system, operated by 16 Regt RA. However, limited deployability and 2005/6 cuts have weakened the UK’s ability to protect bases like RAF Akrotiri from Iran’s long-range missiles,

Latest news article: HMS Spey has conducted a Freedom of Navigation exercise, passing through the Taiwan Strait navylookout.com/hms-spey-has-c…

.HMS Duncan conducting boat transfer south of Plymouth breakwater today.

The arrival of Sjøforsvaret frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen & Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless at British Defence Singapore Support Unit Singapore, signalling the impending arrival of HMS Prince of Wales & the rest of UK Carrier Strike Group #OpHighmast #CSG25

The UK doesn’t really have a capability to intercept ballistic missiles. Type 45 is still going through an upgrade programme and the Houthi missile shot down in 2024 probably represented a different target to these medium-range ballistic missiles.

Good rundown by Shiv Aroor on @NDTV on the emergency landing by a British F-35B at Thiruvananthapuram, India, on 14th June, including assistance rendered by the Indian Air Force & CISF & efforts by recovery crews from HMS Prince of Wales (+longer discussion on YouTube) youtube.com/watch?v=BQMsZd…

#Longread piece by Heather Mongilio & Sam LaGrone for USNI News on the pressures on the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier & amphibious forces amid the prolonged deployments to U.S. Central Command U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet, necessitated by the ongoing instability in the Middle East. news.usni.org/2025/06/18/mid…