The British Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has unveiled the government's plan to increase the size of the Royal Navy by embarking on a crash program to build a new class of frigate, called the Type 31e, costing no more than £250 million (US$327 million) each.
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The British supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth joined the Royal Navy today. On the hangar deck of the 65,000-tonne ship, Captain Jerry Kyd read the commissioning warrant confirming her as an active part of the fleet and the White Ensign and commissioning pennants were raised for the first time.
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Britain's second giant aircraft carrier took a major step today from collection of steel to active warship, as she was formally christened at the Rosyth shipyard. During a ceremony, the Duchess of Cornwall released a bottle of 10-year-old whisky to break against the hull of the 65,000 tonne vessel.
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The Royal Navy has showed off its latest missile in the first successful test of the Sea Ceptor air defence system. Britain's Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin announced that the live-fire test of the supersonic missile took place off the coast of Scotland from the Type 23 frigate HMS Argyll.
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In 2015, the Royal Navy released its concept of the surface warship of 2050. Now the RN is casting its crystal ball further into the future by asking a team of young engineers from UKNEST to develop concepts for future British submarines.
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The Royal Navy's largest-ever warship came home for the first time, as HMS Queen Elizabeth entered her new homeport of Portsmouth. The 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier was met early this morning by flag-waving crowds as she squeezed through the narrow passage by Portsmouth’s Round Tower.
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Work has begun on the first Type 26 frigate for the Royal Navy. Today at BAE Systems' Glasgow shipyard, the British Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon pressed the button that started the cutting of the first steel for the City-class warship now named HMS Glasgow.
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Another line was written in the history books today as the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy set sail for the first time. Under the guidance of a flotilla of super tugs, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth set out on her first six-week sea trial off the northeast coast of Scotland.
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Aircraft carriers are in the news these days. The US and Britain are scheduled to commission the first of two new carrier classes and many others are building their own. With all this activity, it seems as if the new age of the aircraft carrier is dawning. New Atlas hits the deck to find out.
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When the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class carriers go into service in 2020, they'll be watched over by a new generation of eyes in the sky called the Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance System.
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