The Royal Navy’s mission to intercept Iranian drone threats has stalled in port because the Portsmouth repair yard now operates on a “nine-to-five” schedule. The high-stakes mission to protect a ...

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon sets sail for eastern Mediterranean - The Type 45 destroyer has left Portsmouth to bolster the UK’s defences around Cyprus.

Nov. 24 (UPI) --A series of Russian spy ships have been trailed by the British military over the last week near its shores in the English Channel. The British Royal Navy intercepted two Russian ...

The interception happened after an incident on Nov. 19, when a Russian spy ship, Yantar, was reported near the coast of Scotland and was seen using laser equipment to disrupt Royal Air Force pilots ...

‘We should have seen this coming’: Why a Royal Navy ship took so long to set sail for Cyprus after Iran strike - HMS Dragon has set sail a week after the prime minister announced its deployment ...

We are witnessing exactly the kind of emergency that would once have found the Royal Navy in its element. But what has ...

The decision not to deploy a naval vessel to the Mediterranean earlier exposes the fragility at the heart of the Royal Navy.

Decades of swingeing cuts have hollowed out the once-proud Royal Navy, which has shrunk to its smallest size in living memory ...

ANALYSIS: A £1bn Royal Navy destroyer is heading to the Mediterranean, but many are scratching their heads about why it is taking so long to get there.

The UK navy is tightening the taps on allowing alcohol at sea, the defence ministry said Thursday. The move marks another sea-change away from ancient tales of sailors enjoying a drink, fuelled in ...

For nearly four centuries, a massive stone fortress stood just off India’s western coast and refused to bend to any empire ...

The Royal Navy—once the pride of the United Kingdom—has shrunk to around two dozen warships, insufficient to project power in any meaningful sense.