US Navy has conducted another VLS rapid reloading trial off Norfolk Naval Base.USS Farragut aft VLS cells had a receiving frame attached. Missiles then craned across in a cage and were lowered into the frame. (From Ready Reserve crane ship USNS Gopher State)

 

 

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Royal Navy launches autonomous vehicles from submarine in pioneering trial

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/july/22/20250722-royal-navy-launches-autonomous-vehicles-from-submarine-in-pioneering-trial

 

 

 

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For the first time in over 100 years, artefacts from WW1 battleship HMS Vanguard have been recovered from Scapa Flow. The ship’s bell, badge and tampion will be conserved and displayed in Orkney to honour the 843 lives lost in the 1917 explosion.

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/july/25/20250725-artefacts-from-royal-navy-first-world-war-battleship-recovered-from-seabed 

 

 

 

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Decommissioning of the last Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine, HMS Triumph.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-decommissions-last-trafalgar-class-nuclear-submarine/ 

 

 

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HMS Edinburgh (D97), the last of the Royal Navy’s Type 42 destroyers, being towed on her final journey from Portsmouth for decommissioning in 2013, and eventual recycling.

 

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Civilian crew of USNS Arctic recognised for their service supporting the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group during period of intense combat in the Red Sea.

https://news.usni.org/2025/07/21/crew-of-oiler-usns-arctic-praised-for-difficult-red-sea-deployment 

 

 

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