The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded MBDA a GBP316 million (USD414 million) contract to develop and integrate an ...
“From combating pirates and defending air attacks, to delivering humanitarian aid, these high-tech Type 45 destroyers are the pride of the naval fleet.” In the nineteenth century and the first half of ...
HMS Daring, the Royal Navy’s first Type 45 destroyer, has spent more than eight years out of action after chronic propulsion ...
In the early days of WW2 naval warfare, U.S. sailors doubted the thin-skinned destroyers entrusted to protect convoys and ...
August 1939. HMS Kelly cost £500,000 to build—roughly £30 million today. She was fast, modern, heavily armed. Everything the ...
In June 2025, the British Royal Navy dispatched a fleet of warships and helicopters to track a Russian vessel as it transited the English Channel and North Sea. One of the vessels sent to monitor the ...
Maritime experts on an expedition around the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific recently explored the wreckage of the USS Laffey, a destroyer sunk during a pivotal series of battles in World War II.
The Royal Australian Navy announced this week it has discovered the wreckage of the World War II destroyer USS Edsall in the Indian Ocean. Australian navy officials informed the U.S. Naval History and ...
HMS Dragon successfully intercepted a supersonic sea-skimming target during a live-fire demonstration as part of Exercise ‘Formidable Shield 25' on 15 May. This is the first time in Royal Navy history ...
The Sea Viper is the principal weapon system of this warship class (hence the DDG designation), which is designed to protect against enemy aircraft and supersonic anti-ship missiles. It is comprised ...