LONDON (Reuters) - The country's security has been compromised by delays in getting a 6.5 billion pound fleet of new warships operational and halving the order to six, a parliamentary committee said ...

Back in the 1800s, Britain's bellicose boast might have been true -- but Britain's Royal Navy is fast disappearing from the world's oceans. Take the new "Type 45" stealth destroyer for example, the ...

Ever since the Falkland Islands War and the sinking of the Royal Navy’s HMS Sheffield Type 42 destroyer in 1982, the world has been asking whether or not capital ships were going to be survivable in ...

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The replacement for the destroyers of the County-class, were much more compact and austere than their fore bearers. The primary role of the Type 42s was to provide area air defence for the ships they ...

Type 45s are impressive ships on paper. But Britain is not in any position to handle them given their current, systemic problems. Britain has struggled for decades in the wake of its victory in the ...

The Secretary of State for Defense announcement on the royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer was hailed as a boon for South Coast Shipbuilding, as the revised strategy means that Vosper Thornycroft (VT) will ...

A ROYAL NAVY destroyer returned to port for the final time yesterday just a day after an aircraft carrier sailed out as it was towed away to be scrapped. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...