The paucity of surface combatants may be responsible for the slimmed down UK carrier strike group deployment later this month.

Each ship of the class was originally intended to have an 18-year service life before replacement, but this has been extended ...

Type 23 Duke-class vessels are soon to be replaced by more advanced Type 26 and 31 variants. The ships, commissioned between 1989 and 2002, are aging out and many of them are needing maintenance ...

BAE Systems has signed a collaboration agreement with Norwegian shipyard Umoe Mandal to find new ways to work together on the ...

The Royal Navy Type 23 frigate has had a longer-than-usual period of life extension work due to the COVID pandemic and her age. More new steel has been fitted to the ship than in any other ...