Royal Navy

The UK military would only be able to maintain its full capabilities for just two months of war, the parliament was told.

Supercarrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower will need to return to U.S. and the UK is ready to replace her with a British carrier, minister says.

The United Kingdom has successfully used an “advanced future military laser” to shoot down an aerial target for the first time.

Two British minesweepers collided while alongside at Bahrain on Thursday, video footage and the Ministry of Defence confirms.

U.S. and UK warships and aircraft shot down drones, cruise missiles, and a ballistic missile overnight, “the largest attack” by Houthis yet.

NATO allies Turkey and the UK are at odds after the former denied permission for two ex-Royal Navy minehunters donated to Ukraine to pass through its waters on the way to the Black Sea.

Britain “won’t hesitate” to join the U.S. and take “direct action” against Houthis in Yemen its Defence Secretary has said.

The deployment follows the seizure of an Israeli-linked cargo vessel by Iranian-backed Yemeni Huthis in the Red Sea on November 19.

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has suggested that British troops could be deployed inside Ukraine for the first time to carry out military training programmes.

Britain’s Royal Navy has reportedly told its sailors that they should introduce themselves with gender pronouns to be more “inclusive”.

Malaysia said on Tuesday authorities were questioning the crew of a Chinese vessel detained on suspicion of looting World War II shipwrecks.

Malaysia’s maritime agency said Monday it found a cannon shell believed to be from World War II on a Chinese-registered vessel.

The British defence minister appeared to have an unguarded moment on Wednesday, before his office walked the comments back hours later.

Dubai – A British warship intercepted a boat smuggling Iranian weapons, including anti-tank missiles, off the coast of Oman in a joint operation with US forces last week, officials said Thursday.

LONDON (AP) – A Royal Navy warship has returned to port in Britain after several sailors got sick from the vessel’s drinking water, officials said Saturday.

Britain’s armed forces are no longer able to play a full role in NATO or defend the homeland after years of cutbacks, according to British defence sources, with a senior American general warning London that it has a “barely tier two” force.

Russia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has warned that Britain is “too deep” in the Ukraine war, bringing the NATO member “up to the line” of “no return” in terms of a possible conflict with Moscow.

Britain’s Royal Navy helped to execute the “terrorist attack” which damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to the European Union, the Russian defence ministry has alleged.

One illegal is said to have broken into a person’s home in Dover after the UK’s Royal Navy failed to intercept a number of migrant boats.

Iran has “immense naval power” that enables it to project force into the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz and beyond. That is the unalloyed warning from the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, to both the U.S. Navy and the “old fox” British Royal Navy.

The Royal Navy will reportedly relinquish its role in managing the migrant boat crisis, which has seen over 20,000 land this year.

A malfunction resulted in a £420,000 Home Office drone crashing into the English Channel rather than patrolling for illegal boat migrants.

An international fleet of naval warships could break the Russian blockade of Ukraine which is preventing the export of huge amounts of food.

Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government for the Royal Navy to take charge of the Channel migrant crisis are a failure before they have “even started”, a parliamentary committee has warned.

Disabled veterans have been left without accommodation after a hotel cancelled a Falklands War anniversary event to make room for alleged asylum seekers.

The British Army has been tasked with building temporary migrant camps in Britain to house up to 30,000 illegal migrants from next month.

The British government’s latest plans to tackle illegal migration have faced staunch criticism from Nigel Farage as well as Conservative MPs.

Get the jab or leave the service. That is the career advice sailors in the Royal Navy were given by the UK government on Monday.

The migrant crisis in the English Channel is continuing its record-setting pace, with nearly another 200 illegals landing on Saturday.

Boris Johnson appears to have rediscovered the concept of border control, having promised to deploy the Navy to secure the channel in a bid to boost his waning popularity.

The USS Constitution, the world’s oldest ship of any type still afloat, is ready to welcome the first female commander in its storied 224-year history.

British lawmakers delivered a report on Tuesday calling for more funding to increase the size and upgrade the capabilities of the Royal Navy.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to double the number of women recruits in the military by 2030.

The role had been filled by army or airforce officers in the Afghan era, an admiral indicates where Britain thinks it will fight next.

The UK continues to strengthen bonds with allies with a rare example of “quad carrier operations” on China’s doorstep. 

The UK announced new military talks with Japan just hours after China protested Britain sailing a warship through the Taiwan Strait.