At the same time, conventional crewed mine hunters will be retired over the next five to six years. "This is a significant first delivery for the Royal Navy and is a proud moment for all those ...

In February, the Royal Navy received its first serial production ... MCM has some significant disadvantages compared to ...

A specialist ship bought to support Royal Navy mine-hunting operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has arrived in Plymouth. When deployed ...

ONE of the Royal Navy's oldest mine hunting vessels has been spotted training on the Firth of Clyde in recent days. HMS Ledbury has been undertaking navigation and mine clearance training in the ...

A new Royal Navy contract will help sustain 200 jobs ... The Merlin Mk2 helicopters are primarily used as submarine hunters but can also carry out search and rescue operations, intercept drug ...

The Royal Navy has experimented with and, in some cases, operated autonomous underwater systems for more than a decade with most being small, off-the-shelf technologies, largely used in mine-hunting.