The names of five next-generation Type-31 frigates ... Class, the names of the new vessels are drawn from former warships and submarines whose missions and history will inspire Royal Navy operations.

The U.K. Royal Navy is so short on sailors that it is reportedly having to decommission two Type 23 class frigates in order to staff its new class of frigates. If this comes to pass, it would ...

The Royal Navy started work on its third Type 31 Inspiration-class frigate. Named HMS Formidable, the third warship of the class is being built in Rosyth, Scotland, alongside the HMS Venturer and ...

With a blinding arc of light as the laser cutter sliced through steel plate, work started this week on the Royal Navy’s new frigate HMS Formidable ... as the Inspiration class, all five ships ...

The Kumano is the first of a planned 22 vessels of the class, which will include capabilities never seen before on a Japanese frigate. The new frigate class is intended for surveillance missions ...

The race to design and build a new generation of Royal Navy frigates has been won by engineering firm Babcock. It has been named preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for five Type 31 warships.

The Indian Navy will take delivery of two Project 1135.6P/M guided-missile frigates in the first half of 2024, according to the Russian defense industry. India and Russia signed an inter ...

The next two ships in the class, HMS Cardiff and the HMS Belfast, are already under construction in Glasgow. It was once envisaged that the Royal Navy would need 13 Type 26 frigates, but that plan ...

A Royal Navy frigate has made its first journey down the River Clyde carried by a giant barge. HMS Cardiff is the second of eight anti-submarine warfare ships being constructed at the BAE Systems ...

On Sunday the Royal Navy's HMS Kent frigate ship intercepted a Russian Kilo-class submarine, after it surfaced off the Eastern coast of England. Russia's Stary Oskol, capable of carrying torpedoes ...

The Type 31 Inspiration-class is a general-purpose vessel intended to replace the Royal Navy’s Type 23 Duke-class frigates, which Babcock will also maintain until the replacement is complete. UK ...