Article Summary - HMS Daring, the Royal Navy’s first Type 45 destroyer, has spent more than eight years out of action after chronic propulsion failures exposed deep flaws in Britain’s most advanced ...

A UK warship shot down a supersonic missile in what the Royal Navy called a "historic first." The HMS Dragon warship "obliterated" the missile in a test off the coast of Scotland. The Type 45 air ...

‘World class’ tactical drills sharpened the skills of Royal Navy sailors who linked up with a huge French aircraft carrier.

In June 2025, the British Royal Navy dispatched a fleet of warships and helicopters to track a Russian vessel as it transited the English Channel and North Sea. One of the vessels sent to monitor the ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.25136992.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25136992.2 Destroyers are small warships (defined in the London Treaty of 1930 as being no more ...

HMS Duncan, the Royal Navy destroyer, is currently attached to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1), which serves as the international military alliance’s main task force in the northern European ...

HMS Diamond downed multiple Houthi drones and missiles during the US-led “Operation Prosperity Guardian” near Yemen, earning her a Meritorious Unit Commendation. The guided-missile air defense ...