Author Archives: David Arkwright

Tanker RFA Tidespring is ready to join CSG25 with HMSPWLS which departs later this month, providing the carrier strike group with fuel and other essential supplies. She will be joined later in the mission by RFA Argus.

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Putin announces plans to spend 8.4 trillion rubles on naval construction in the next decade (approx £77.2 Billion). The Russians “plan” to do a lot of things, but right now their focus is on a land war in Ukraine. That will consume almost all of their financial resources, so it will remain to be seen what Russia is going to spend on its Navy. It will, however, maintain a strong submarine capability (both nuclear and diesel-electric) because they know those are the most powerful naval weapons they have.

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Official sources confirm recent Parliamentary Answer stating that the first Type 26 in service by 2029 was incorrect: Expect HMS Glasgow: Naming ceremony: Q2 2025. Contractors sea trials & accepted by RN: 2026. Commissioning and first-of-class trials: 2027. Initial Operating Capability October 2028.

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USS Comstock (LSD 45) arrives in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India in preparation for Exercise Tiger Triumph 2025. Good view of the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM), a short-range surface-to-air missile system

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HMS Somerset fires gun salute as she returned home to Plymouth today, after more than 100 intensive days on national tasking – including six operations tracking Russian vessels in UK waters.

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Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec and Spanish Armada frigate ESPS Mendez Nunez to participate in the UK-led Carrier Strike Group deployment April -November 2025 CSG25 along with: HMS Prince of Wales HMS Dauntless HMS Richmond RFA Tidespring SSN HNoMS Roald Amundsen HNoMS Maud No US warship attached to the group.

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Navy Commissions USS Iowa (SSN 797). Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa (SSN 797) man their newly commissioned submarine during a ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, April 5, 2025.

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