Monthly Archives: March 2024

The carriers can accommodate F-35B Lightning jets as well as helicopters such as the Merlin and Wildcat (Picture: Royal Navy) HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are the largest and most powerful ships ever built for the Royal Navy. The project to build the two aircraft carriers cost the UK more than £6bn.Continue reading “Teething troubles: The problems faced by the crews of the Royal Navy’s two carriers 4th March 2024 at 3:40pm”

  HMS Protector saw 74 fur seals on her Antarctic deployment (Picture: Royal Navy) HMS Protector, the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship, has wrapped up her latest adventure in the Antarctic, completing a scientific and conservation mission. Clocking in at 7,000 nautical miles, this annual journey takes the Plymouth-based vessel deep into the icy heartContinue reading “HMS Protector finishes latest Antarctic mission complete with whales, seals and penguins 8th March 2024 at 2:10pm”

Play Video Watch: New engineers learn the art of bridge building Skills in conventional warfare are still critical and armies still need bridges to cross rivers and ravines – with the conflict in Ukraine looking more like the Second World War. 55 Training Squadron, based at Minley, Hampshire, has been teaching their brand new engineers theContinue reading “New Gurkha engineers perfect the art of building bridges Hannah King 8th March 2024 at 11:29am”

Despite previous recruitment issues, the Earl of Minto told the House of Lords that ‘applications are well up’ (Picture: MOD) More than 10,000 people applied to join the British Army in January, a defence minister has revealed. During a debate about military National Service, Timothy Lariston Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound The Earl of Minto told the House ofContinue reading “Applications now ‘well up’ after 10,000 signed up to join British Army in January Julian Perreira 8th March 2024 at 12:01pm”

1 A Marine from the 1st Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team stands guard outside the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2010 after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the country. (Sgt. Richard Andrade/Army)  An elite Marine security team has deployed to Haiti because of a deteriorating security situation there, according to a defense official. The fleetContinue reading “Elite Marine security team deploys to Haiti amid gang crisis By Irene Loewenson”