7/7 And if you want to check out the US Navy – its ships, submarines, aviation, the US Marines and much more, plus commentaries and analysis – as it squares up to Iran, we suggest our ‘Guide to the US Navy’ https://warshipsifr.com/news/guide-to-the-us-navy-2025/
6/7 If you want to read a feature on the many former British naval vessels - from landing ships and helicopter carriers, patrol vessels, mine-hunters to frigates etc - still sailing on and giving good value to other nations while Britain's navy struggles, please check out our
1/7 Odin on breaking news: The very role the ancient jack-of-all-trades auxiliary vessel RFA Argus performed, is apparently now possibly to be undertaken in the eastern Med by RFA Lyme Bay. Argus, recently sent to be prepared for scrap at Falmouth, had the edge via a lift and
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Great Warships Pod episode for you to listen to here https://pod.fo/e/394393 called 'Cold War & 1990s Submarines & the Hybrid Navy' - host @IBallantyn talks to guest Steve Kershaw, a former Royal Navy submarine officer - about his amazing career under the sea and his work today
Here's the German Navy @deutschemarine (F125) Baden-Wurttemberg Class frigate FGS Baden-Wurttemberg inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Here's an image just a few days old of the Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena, which has allegedly just been sunk by a US Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine in waters off Sri Lanka.
She is seen participating in an International Fleet Review hosted by the Indian Navy, at
Odin's Eye Extra: People are asking why HMS Dragon has been selected for the likely mission to the Mediterranean to protect British sovereign territory on Cyprus from attack. It is worth waiting a few days to get her out of maintenance because that Daring Class (Type 45)
And here's our item on last year's Ex Formidable Shield that prepped HMS Dragon for a likely Cyprus mission, as published in the July 2025 edition of the mag.
Also, here's a video clip from our YouTube channel showing Wildcats of the Royal Navy training to take down drones with the formidable Martlet missile, last year. Not the first time their aircrews had rehearsed the sort of missions they could now be performing to defend British
The Editor's morning perspective 👇
Yes, US Navy units have cleared the Gulf itself, which is sensible - and normal practice - but they are still in theatre. The UK's immobile frigate in Bahrain and a MCMV somewhere are symbolic of decline, and neither of which can offer anything useful right now.
Even if adopting
Odin's Eye Extra: What fate the once proud British frigate HMS Lancaster, marooned in a decommissioned state in Bahrain, where the US 5th Fleet HQ and nearby naval support facility (wherein the ship lies) are said to be under Iranian missile attack?
The plight of the Duke Class
The current cover star of our magazine is the @RoyalNavy nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Anson, which has now reached Australia, hence this video. For more on the deployment check out an article inside the March 2026 edition.
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The British submarine HMS Anson has reached Australia to operate out of HMAS Stirling, a major naval base on its west coast. She is there under the AUKUS defence pact, to operate as part of Submarine Rotational Force-West (SRF-West). According to the @RoyalNavy it is 'seen as a
The @RoyalNavy Duke Class (Type 23) frigate HMS Somerset inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday morning. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Here's the Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector seen outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Our March edition is officially out today, in the UK and going global. Its cover star is the Astute Class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the @RoyalNavy HMS Anson, calling at Gibraltar on the way to Australia. Another fine cover image by @dparody The magazine boasts its usual
A couple of images from Regional Presence Deployment 2026-2 (RPD-26-2) of the Royal Australian Navy @Australian_Navy during which the frigate HMAS Toowoomba is working with a number of allied navies. Here we see Philippine Navy frigate BRP Diego Silang conducting officer of the
When he's not slaving over a hot keyboard at the helm of the magazine, @IBallantyn dabbles in naval history and here's some interesting extracts from his books 👇on the end of the German battleship Bismarck in WW2 (pic). He also discussed the Bismarck Action on our Warships Pod
A perishin' good photo from Exercise Arctic Dolphin 26 in Norwegian waters shows the German Navy fleet replenishment ship FGS Main testing the periscope skills of a would be submarine captain. Part of what the UK used to call the Perisher when it ran its own such course - and we
Some big signalling here in images released via @CENTCOM of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group of the @USNavy as representatives of the USA and Iran held talks in Oman. A case of following Teddy Roosevelt's maxim of speaking softly and carrying a big stick...major force
Broadside from the Editor, trying to outdo the mag's Odin's Eye lead commentary team...
@NavyLookout @LukePollard Actually it wouldn't be so pathetic if the following had not happened: the 17 year failure to order any frigates; the accelerating departure of knackered T23 frigates from service years before new frigates are in service; the decision to sell T26s to the Norwegians off the RN
Here's the @RoyalNavy Hunt Class Mine Counter-measures Vessel (MCMV) HMS Ledbury @HMSLedbury outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Still going strong almost 45 years since commissioned (built by Vosper Thornycroft). Second of her class, only a few of which
On offer in the new edition of the magazine is a fascinating chat between @timbenbow1 and @drfarls that punctures the myth of @RoyalNavy trying to hang on to its battleships post-WW2 out of sentimentality. Quite the contrary! Here's the first page as a taster.
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Here's the German Navy @deutschmarine Berlin Class replenishment ship FGS Bonn outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday
afternoon. One of three Berlin Class vessels able to supply warships with everything they need (almost) - fuel, ammo, food and engineering stores. Plus
President Trump finally weighs in on the Chagos/Diego Garcia affair...Amazing that it has taken so long.
Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER. There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of
With all the headlines about Russia's alleged 'Shadow Fleet' and similar, including dramatic intercepts in recent weeks of tankers in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, here's a taster of a look at the topic. As published at the end of 2024 (ahead of the majority of mainstream
A Russian naval aviation Tupolev Tu-142 (Bear F) long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft has been intercepted by a pair of Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) F-35A fighter jets on Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) duty. Occurring Just over a week ago, it was the first
Our Odin's Eye comment on such woeful hubris from a less than spectacular ex-UK Secretary of State for Defence:
'Just embarassing to boast about this - the fact that he sent a barely armed patrol ship, and not much of a 'gun boat', to allegedly do the job of an amphibious task
As Defence Secretary I sent a gun boat to Venezuela to defend neighbouring Commonwealth country Guyana. Maduro is a dictator who stole the election and it's very good he's been removed.
With US strikes, and it seems Special Forces intervention on the ground in Caracas - capital city of Venezuela - plus that country's leader allegedly 'captured' (according to President Donald J. Trump) then flown out, US Navy forces of one kind or another are likely to have been
Tanks for Ukraine delivered via global sealift: as the war approaches its fourth anniversary, here's ex-Australian Army M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks being loaded onto a commercial vessel. The image was take some weeks ago and these (plus other former Aussie M1A1s) are likely now… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005204824120295876
It was very clever of Santa to trick NORAD into thinking he'd used the traditional sleigh and reindeer method entirely. In fact, his globe-girdling present-delivery feat - or at least part of it - for 2025 was achieved via the United States Navy nuclear-powered submarine USS… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004519425773351128
A US Navy destroyer of the Arleigh Burke Class in the Gulf of Guinea launches a Tomahawk Class Land Attack Missile (TLAM) at terrorist targets in Nigeria. US defence sources said more than a dozen TLAMs were fired, at Islamic State lairs. The Christmas Day operation was
