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ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY: Reprieve for auxiliary service?

10 March 2011

With little mention of the future of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in the latest Defence White Paper, the service seems to have once again...

ROYAL NAVY: Something we made earlier

10 March 2011

Ambush, the second of the Royal Navy’s new Astute class submarines, was officially named in Barrow-in-Furness on 16 December 2010, although a technical fault...

DEFENCE REVIEW: Website auction for flagship

10 March 2011

The UK MoD’s Disposal Services Authority has offered ex-HMS Invincible for sale by tender on its website. The aircraft carrier is listed as sound...

US NAVY: Headlines and deadlines

10 March 2011

The US Navy has capitalised on lower than expected tenders for a major contract to design and build up to 55 warships. Instead of...

SURVEY SHIP: Back to the ice for Scott

10 March 2011

HMS Scott has deployed to the Antarctic a century after her eponym Captain Scott’s final expedition to the area. The deep-water survey ship will...

SUBMARINES: Sting in the tail

10 March 2011

DCNS and Navantia have ended their 15-year-long collaboration on the Scorpène submarine project after an acrimonious fallout over intellectual property. The split comes after...

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