Imagery released by the US Navy shows the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke firing its five-inch main gun during a live-fire exercise in the Mediterranean, while operating “in support of American security interests in Europe”.

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Ultra Maritime has completed the first in-water trial of its next-generation Multistatic Active Receive Sonobuoy in Scotland, a step it says will improve on current Royal Navy systems for detecting Russian submarines in the North Atlantic.

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Newly released footage shows Royal Marine Commandos of the UK Commando Force boarding the Russian shadow fleet tanker SMYRTOS in the Channel, a vessel sailing under a false Cameroonian flag, in the first UK-led operation of its kind.

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Royal Marine Commandos and National Crime Agency officers have boarded a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Channel.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte the UK will still publish its Defence Investment Plan ahead of next month’s summit.

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HMS Stirling Castle has been formally commissioned into the Royal Navy on the Firth of Forth, marking the operational start of Britain’s unique minehunting mothership, which carries autonomous and remotely operated systems to hunt mines in place of traditional crewed minehunters.

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HMS Prince of Wales and her carrier group joined NATO’s Dynamic Mongoose anti-submarine exercise off Norway, with the UK fielding the largest national contribution as nine nations hunted German, Portuguese and Dutch submarines across two weeks in the High North.

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Ferguson Marine has completed the first official engine start on Glen Rosa, the CalMac ferry being built at Port Glasgow.

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Unite has called for guarantees that shipbuilding and repair work will stay in the UK after Balaena’s acquisition of the parent of Cammell Laird and A&P, with general secretary Sharon Graham saying the deal shows “the absurdity” of sending such work overseas.

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3 Commando Brigade is to be officially known as the UK Commando Force, the King has announced, marking a decade of transformation that has seen the Royal Marines reshaped from a high-readiness amphibious brigade into dispersed, technologically advanced strike teams.

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