The Damen Landing Ship Transport (LST) 100 design has been selected by the USA's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to fulfil a need for the US Marines to utilise more, smaller vessels as they gear up for a island war in Indo-Pacific at some future date.

According to Damen 'up…

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Here's the Russian Navy Kilo Class missile-armed diesel-electric submarine RFS Krasnodar (entered service late 2015) in waters off the UK, with the naval tug RFS Altay (middle right). Commissioned 1988, note Altay's interesting profusion of aerials for a simple 'tug'. Monitoring…

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Here's the last HMS Formidable of the @RoyalNavy - a WW2 era aircraft carrier, left - along with a depiction of the next ship of the name, right, a Type 31 general-purpose frigate, whose keel has just been laid in the Babcock facility at Rosyth on the Forth, Scotland. There are…

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THE CASE FOR NUCLEAR & CONVENTIONAL SUBMARINES IN THE ROYAL NAVY - by our Editor @IBallantyn The UK needs nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) and Air-independent Propulsion (AIP) conventional boats. Or, go down the Japanese route to field a SSK that does not use an AIP…

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