Royal Navy's Type 31 Frigates: A New Era of Naval Power Begins It has been quite some time since the Royal Navy ruled the waves. But now, under a new shipbuilding strategy, the United Kingdom ...

With a blinding arc of light as the laser cutter sliced through steel plate, work started this week on the Royal Navy’s new ...

The Type 31 represents the very best of British ... Mr Wallace said Venturer offered a glimpse of the future Royal Navy. “These frigates will form the fulcrum of a formidable future force ...

The race to design and build a new generation of Royal Navy frigates has been won by engineering firm Babcock. It has been named preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for five Type 31 warships.

Scottish shipyards have orders to build a total of 13 Royal Navy frigates. Eight Type 26 ships are being constructed by BAE Systems on the Clyde, while five Type 31 vessels are being built by ...

Frigate Admiral Golovko, tanker Vyazma, and intelligence ship Yantar were traced heading westwards through the Channel by ...

The design has also been sold to Indonesia for their own frigate production. Royal Navy's Senior Responsible Owner for the Type 31 programme, Commodore Stephen Roberts, said: “This is a ...

Significant questions remain over whether the still-invisible Type 32 programme can survive the UK government’s upcoming Budget and the Strategic Defence Review. The fate of the next generation of ...

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The Royal Navy started work on its third Type 31 Inspiration-class frigate. Named HMS Formidable, the third warship of the class is being built in Rosyth, Scotland, alongside the HMS Venturer and ...