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The Ministry of Defence is planning to release more than £1bn, possibly as early as September, to enable BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to begin...

On 9 August 1942 HMAS Canberra was lost in the night battle of Savo Island while protecting the Guadalcanal beachheads as part of a USN Task Force. Eighty four of her ship's company lost their lives. This account of the loss of the ship, and what became of her surviving crew when they took HMAS Shropshire to war, was prepared for a speech written for delivery at this year's Canberra memorial service in Canberra by LCDR Desmond Woods, RANR.

Norman Friedman looks at the consequences of Russian President Vladimir Putin firing the entire leadership of his Baltic Fleet, a purge on a scale not seen since Stalin’s bloody purges of the 1930s.

The Navy’s new planned class of ballistic missile submarines will be named in honor of the District of Columbia, two Navy officials confirmed to...

More than 70 years after the cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was sunk, a new clue discovered by a Navy researcher could give expeditions hunting...

The U.K. House of Commons approved a measure to renew the Royal Navy’s Trident nuclear weapons program and continue funding for four planned Successor-class...

The head of the People’s Liberation Army Navy told his U.S. counterpart that China has no intention of stopping its island building campaign in...

Former Frigate USS Thach hit in live fire sinking exercise

A Russian destroyer shadowed the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) on July 16 and 17 during the Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise,...

After months of deliberation, the name and designation of the Navy’s first carrier unmanned aerial vehicle are now official: MQ-25A Stingray, service officials told...