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Royal Navy

July 2024

  • Samson and Goliath cranes at the Harland & Wolff shipyard

    Business secretary confident of ‘market-led solution’ for Harland & Wolff

  • The defence secretary, John Healey, signs a credit agreement with Ukraine’s defence minister, Rustem Umerov, in London on 19 July 2024, as Keir Starmer, right, and Volodymyr Zelenskiy look on.

    Britain’s defence policy rests on unity in an increasingly divided world

  • two huge yellow cranes loom over the water at the shipyard with industrial buildings in the background against a grey sky

    Titanic shipyard owner Harland & Wolff awaits news of funding lifeline

  • A portrait of Matthew Flinders in his naval uniform

    Matthew Flinders, the flute-playing, cat-loving explorer who circumnavigated Australia, is going home – but what of his envoy Bungaree?

June 2024

  • HMS Victory in Portsmouth, against a slightly cloudy sky, with tourists in shorts walking towards the gangplank

    Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

  • Nick Adderley

    Police chief dismissed for gross misconduct after wearing Falklands war medal

May 2024

  • Picture of a modern prefab building in a yard bearing the Harland & Wolff name and logo, with a huge yellow crane in the background

    Union warns of threat to Harland & Wolff jobs if Treasury vetoes £200m support

  • An F-35 Lightning jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier

    UK given stark warning over ‘negligible’ air defence systems

  • The Ministry of Defence building in London

    About 270,000 UK forces records exposed to Chinese hackers

  • A woman looking out of a window.

    Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’

April 2024

  • An RAF Typhoon FGR4 aircraft back at base after strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, 4 February 2024.

    Jeremy Corbyn’s call for ‘peace’ plays into the hands of anti-western dictators

  • HMS Trent sea boats during the drugs bust operation.

    Royal Navy seizes £17m of drugs in Caribbean Sea

March 2024

  • Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor,  are seen through a round window examining a small component during a visit to BAE Systems’ submarines facility in Barrow-in-Furness last week.

    Observer business agenda
    UK’s ever more expensive nuclear submarines will torpedo spending plans for years to come

    Whoever wins the next election, a reckoning is overdue on the costs of Britain’s nuclear deterrent
  • Cleanshaven British army troops on parade

    British army ends century-old ban to allow troops to grow beards

    Policy change stipulates ‘no patchy or uneven growth’ and allows length of up to 25.5mm
  • The lower legs of a row of male and female military personnel in uniform

    Abused, raped, ignored: how ‘invisible’ female British military veterans are fighting back

    After years of being dismissed when reporting high levels of sexual violence in the UK armed forces, women’s voices are set to be heard

February 2024

  • A Trident missile can be fired at targets up to 4,000 miles away and at its fastest can travel at more than 13,000mph, according to the Royal Navy.

    Trident missile test failure raises questions about UK’s nuclear deterrent

  • Work is undertaken on the flight deck of the HMS Prince of Wales.

    Why is HMS Prince of Wales replacing HMS Queen Elizabeth on Nato mission?

  • Members of the Royal Navy on parade in Dartmouth.

    Observer letters
    What did the navy do for me? Everything

  • Royal Navy and US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning multirole combat aircraft parked onboard the deck of the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier

    Navy to get nearly £2bn of AI and virtual tech to keep warships at sea

January 2024

  • Army recruits lie prone on a floor aiming computerised guns at a screen

    Morality and reality: the key problems facing UK military recruiters

    Calls to prepare for war butt up against record on recent conflicts, pay and conditions, and changing youth culture
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