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A team of Belfast employees have celebrated their contribution to the Royal Navy’s latest flagship vessel after the £3 billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth set sail. Workers at the Thales site in the Northern Irish capital designed and manufactured one of the key assets protecting the new 65,000-tonne vessel – a missile system on the Navy’s Wildcat helicopter. The lightweight multi-role missile (LMM) – referred to as Martlet by the Navy – has recently entered service at sea after completing live-firing trials with Wildcat manufacturer Leonardo. It is already in service with...

BBC News By Jonathan Beale image copyrightPA Media Britain is about to embark on a world tour - in the shape of the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by a fleet of warships. The Royal Navy says it will be the most powerful UK naval deployment in a generation. The government sees the fleet, named the Carrier Strike Group, as a potent symbol of "Global Britain" - and as proof of Boris Johnson's promise to restore the Royal Navy as Europe's foremost naval power and end what he called an "era of retreat". The prime minister spent this morning on board HMS Queen Eliza...

news Why is a UK aircraft carrier off on a world tour? © PA Media Britain is about to embark on a world tour - in the shape of the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by a fleet of warships. The Royal Navy says it will be the most powerful UK naval deployment in a generation. The government sees the fleet, named the Carrier Strike Group, as a potent symbol of "Global Britain" - and as proof of Boris Johnson's promise to restore the Royal Navy as Europe's foremost naval power and end what he called an "era of retreat".

Virtually unlimited range and endurance. What more could you want? Here's What You Need to Remember: Yet, despite the formidable armament and capabilities, the Astute-class has been involved in several incidents that call into question their capabilities. While the United Kingdom’s powerful Vanguard-class grabs a lot of attention, the smaller Astute-class is also nuclear powered—and the UK’s largest nuclear attack submarines.  Astute-class The Astute-class is the Royal Navy’s most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarine and the successor of the previous Trafalgar-class. The first ...

BAE Systems launch new Astute-class submarine HMS Anson, built for the UK Royal Navy.