Electronic warfare and weapons experts have been given their first sight of the Navy’s decoy launcher of tomorrow The £135m Ancilia system will dispense chaff, flares and active decoy rounds on all future frigates plus Type 45 destroyers, replacing the existing Seagnat launcher.

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By day, by night… By sea, by air… Two RFA Headquarters ships, RFA Lyme Bay and RFA Argus have been the crucial launch pad for Commando operations during a major exercise in Australia’s Northern Territory.

 

 

 

 

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USS Pinckney (DDG 91) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA/MOD guided missile destroyer coming into San Diego – August 8, 2024. Does it look stable?

 

 

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Australia, the UK and the USA have formally signed a Naval Nuclear Propulsion agreement that allows the sharing of highly sensitive submarine nuclear reactor and propulsion technology. This will allow the UK and US to transfer the material and equipment required for the safe and secure construction, operation, and sustainment of SSNs to Australia. AUKUS

 

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On this day in 1968, the Leander Class Frigate HMS Scylla was launched at HMNB Devonport making her last major warship to be built there. Today warships and submarines are refitted there and Plymouth remains a Naval Engineering hub.

 

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