An aircraft carrier is a floating airbase capable of deploying air power wherever it is needed. During the Cold War (1947-1991), a variety of exciting (and often very dangerous) combat aircraft took to the seas. Many of these oozed charisma, and combined high performance with the toughness to survive deck life. Here are 11 of…
Submarines mauled shipping and threatened the survival of many nations in the second world war. One way to fight back was with anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Attacking a submarine from the air was a dangerous game, as surfaced submarines fired back at their attackers with machine guns and cannon. Converted bombers would roar a few hundred…
For former history teacher Jonathan Carley, it must have felt like the walls closed in on him in an instant when police, searching for a fake Royal Navy officer, came knocking on the door of his grand clifftop home. Inside, officers uncovered a pristine military uniform, medals and a ceremonial sword – a weapon that…
Vladimir Putin has been warned the Royal Navy is ‘ready’ to respond after it emerged a Kremlin spy ship had fired lasers at British planes – and it’s not the first Russian warship to cause alarm Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas News Reporter 14:07, 20 Nov 2025 The Russian ‘spy ship’ Yantar marks a ‘new era of threat’,…
The search for a missing UK Navy crew member off the north-west coast of Ireland has ended and they have not been found, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Tidesurge crew member was last seen at about 10.30pm on Friday. A large-scale multi-agency search has been taking place in…
The UK government said Sunday it would move to strip the former prince Andrew of his honorary title of vice-admiral, his last remaining military rank. Andrew was stripped of his honorary military titles by his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, in 2022 after he was sued by Virginia Giuffre, US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein‘s…
The Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom commenced their first-ever joint Carrier Strike Group (CSG) operations as part of Exercise KONKAN-25, which began off the western coast of India on October 5 and continues in the Western Indian Ocean, the Indian Navy said on Friday. On the sidelines of the visit…
The Armed Forces are in the midst of a recruiting crisis due to an inability to process applications quickly and effectively. Last year, the British Army, Royal Navy and RAF received 177,510 applications to join the forces, but were able to only recruit just 10,930 as the three services failed to meet recruitment targets. The…
A team of technical experts on board the British Royal Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas arrived at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to assess a British Royal Navy F-35B fighter jet that made an emergency landing at the airport on June 14. After remaining grounded for over two weeks due to technical faults, the aircraft will now…
Jun 27, 2025 06:59 PM IST Several attempts to fix the £85-million jet have been unsuccessful and it has been on tarmac since it made emergency landing after reporting low fuel levels New Delhi: The UK said on Friday that a F-35B stealth combat jet of the Royal Navy, which has been stranded at Kerela’s…