Good news, although not unexpected after the recent signing of the Poland-Ukraine-UK security pact. After a 25+ year hiatus, the Type 26 and 31 designs have re-established the UK's credibility in the international marketplace as a provider of new rather than just second-hand ex-RN warships. Once the...

Haven’t been able to find the site for many years wondering what happened to it The legendary Navy Matters website from Richard Beedall, sadly no longer operational, but you can find it on the web via archiving....see the below link and save it in your favourites... http://web.archive.org/web/20130...

The crews, tugboats and pilot are clearly now getting the hang of berthing these monsters. POW was straight in and done on Friday, a comparison with some old Youtube videos of QE and POW nervously entering Portsmouth in 2018/19 is chalk and cheese. It's becoming near routine, rather than a potential...

Any recent news on the conversion of a Bay-class LSD(A) to an LSS? Any progress? I saw back in September reports that the project had apparently been "paused" just 5 months after being announced, but with no explanation. I can only speculate on the reasons why, e.g.: * It's become clear th...

Comparing the high profile embarkation of the 3 Crowsnest Merlin's on 27 April with the subsequent official near silence certainly tells a tale. In all the hundreds of photos of CSG21, I've spotted Merlin ASaCs in only a handful - and none flying. It seems to safe to predict that the pre-IOC deploym...