The Royal Danish Navy Iver Huitfeldt Class frigate HDMS Peter Willemoes seen outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth early yesterday morning. Video courtesy of our regular contributor and team player 😎 @StephenJagger4
So, now the UK budget has been delivered, nothing has changed ref the strap below main header of our latest Odin's Eye leader commentary. Nor has the truth behind the principal headline.
@TomSharpe134 Talking of jam tomorrow https://x.com/WarshipsIFR/status/2114628350928896241?s=20
New edition tasters: an inside page from our November edition, feat two impressive images of Russian submarines. Namely, Lada Class boat RFS Kronshtadt & Kilo Class RFS Yakutsk. Also here, the contents page. To dive in via hard copy and/or digital formats https://warshipsifr.com/subscriptions/
The UK may very soon have only one frigate operational. But how did we get here, just in terms of numbers, since the late 1990s (when this magazine was first published)? British navalists read this from our Editor 👇and weep. Naturally a very brief summary; more in the mag.
The ‘have three, only have one is available for ops’ is a well-known thing, which has been recklessly discounted by the British 'to do more with less' for many years. Originally 16 x Type 23s. Three sold to Chile 2005, left 13. Therefore four approx avail for global ops (though
The latest Odin’s Eye leader commentary in our Nov mag (out now) well worth a read. Telling it like it is. Frigate pic here is ex-HMS Richmond, at Portsmouth to be laid up after decommissioning. Derek Fox photo. Cover pic RFS Kronshtadt, Russian Navy https://warshipsifr.com/subscriptions/
The @RoyalNavy Duke Class (Type 23) frigate HMS Somerset inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth, England, yesterday afternoon. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
The hulk of the former Duke Class (Type 23) frigate Iron Duke was towed out of @HMNBDevonport Plymouth this morning, bound for Portsmouth pending disposal. Video courtesy @StephenJagger4 She is only the latest Duke Class (Type 23) warship of the Royal Navy retired from service.
Odin observes: what can you say to the two men below, who allegedly have key roles in the defence of the Realm, but are out in Thailand making a mockumentary (of a once great nation)?
@Ed_Miliband This is deeply embarrassing and offensive considering the cost of living and energy crisis that is engulfing the UK at the moment.
This is your very own “Let them eat cake moment.”
Are you really that oblivious how the optics of this looks?
I guess so.
The @RFAHeadquarters Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ship (MROSS) RFA Proteus inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday morning. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4 Primary role: protecting Britain's undersea infrastructure - seabed cables (including for the internet and
Odin says: an extraordinary performance. The Foreign Secretary makes no mention of the essential underpinning of what he is waffling on about: a strong, active navy commensurate with such ambitions, to secure it all at home/abroad (and so be taken seriously by allies and foes).
Britain on the world stage, acting in our national interest.
Grey ship on a grey day: the Royal Norwegian Navy @Forsvaret_no Fridtjof Nansen Class guided-missile frigate HNoMS Otto Sverdrup inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth, England for the weekend alongside. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4 According to a Royal Navy release this
Here, top, is the Russian destroyer RFS Admiral Levchenko, of the Northern Fleet, along with the oil tanker RFS General Skobelev and the RoRo-transport ship RFS Sparta (middle). The Admiral Levchenko was providing escort for both auxiliary vessels, while returning home from the
A rare sighting at Plymouth: an @indiannavy warship, namely the Talwar Class guided-missile frigate INS Trishul inbound to @HMNBDevonport yesterday morning. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4 According to the Royal Navy the aim of the visit is to ‘deepen bilateral ties and
The @WarshipsIFR Guide to the @USNavy is out there and in the UK available in @tgjonesuk and @WHSmith branches plus from other purveyors of magazines. Rolling out globally too, not least to the USA! Cover star is the venerable nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (US
While working with @NATO allies in the Black Sea this summer, as part of Operation Reassurance, Canadian mine warfare specialists helped seize 'a naval drone [pictured] intercepted while transiting by the current toward the city of Constanta, Romania,' according to the
And this is the most spectacular video in the released visuals of Klakring's end...
The ex-US Navy frigate Klakring, commissioned 1983, retired in 2013 and a veteran of the 1980s Tanker War, was the target in an Anglo-US sinking exercise (SINKEX) off NW Scotland. During Exercise Atlantic Thunder the @USNavy (USN) destroyer USS Paul Ignatius and @RoyalNavy (RN)
The ex-US Navy frigate Klakring, commissioned 1983, retired in 2013 and a veteran of the 1980s Tanker War, was the target in an Anglo-US sinking exercise (SINKEX) off NW Scotland. During Exercise Atlantic Thunder the @USNavy (USN) destroyer USS Paul Ignatius and @RoyalNavy (RN)
The new British attack submarine HMS Agamemnon @RoyalNavy is seen here departing the Walney Channel this morning having yesterday exited the Barrow-in-Furness submarine construction yard of @BAES_Maritime After heading out into Morecambe Bay will likely make her delivery voyage
Looking crisp is the preserved WW2 corvette HMCS Sackville, of the Flower Class at Halifax, Nova Scotia. A pic by our regular contributor Yoshiharu Fukushima (lo rez version) and taken during his voyage with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Training Squadron, which will be
The future USS John F. Kennedy is the cover star of our new edition, out now. Second of the Gerald R. Ford Class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a striking image courtesy of HII Newport News Shipbuilding, showing the ship completing acceptance sea trials in the summer.
A few days ago in the South China Sea: the @Australian_Navy frigate HMAS Perth conducts a Replenishment-at-Sea (RAS) with @USNavy Nimitz Class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln, while attached to Carrier Strike Group 3 (CSG-3). Photo: LSA Luke Clarke/RAN.
Snazzy video of @RoyalNavy Daring Class (Type 45) destroyer @HMSDauntless inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth a few days ago. Vid courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Here's the @RoyalNavy Duke Class (Type 23) frigate @HMSSutherland inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth at the end of last week. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Here's the Royal Netherlands Navy @kon_marineLanding Platform Dock (LPD) HNLMS Johan de Witt seen inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth end of last week. The Rotterdam Class amphibious ship is believed to be on Operational Sea Training (OST) for national and NATO tasking. Works
Warships podcast: 'Britain’s Hybrid Navy & Thinking Up Front - the challenges of making the UK’s "hybrid navy" a reality'. There is surely much to learn and absorb from Steve Prest @fightingsailor for the United Kingdom's political and military leadership when it comes to the
In case you do not see the link lower down https://pod.fo/e/532363
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Amid the latest Falklands brouhaha British politicians have been strong on social media, as ever, asserting the right to self-determination of the islanders. But as, our Editor @IBallantyn has pointed out to @wesstreeting the UK Secretary of State for Defence, there is the
The French Navy @MarineNationale Loire Class Metropolitan Offshore Support and Assistance Vessel (BSAM) FS Garonne seen outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth at the weekend. She was assisting in a search and rescue operation for five missing people following the sinking of a
The Royal Navy has revealed that three of its naval units – destroyer HMS Duncan, frigate HMS St Albans and patrol vessel HMS Severn – monitored two Russian Navy warships, a tanker and sanctioned cargo ships as they proceeded through the Channel.
When Russian vessels approached
The new (Sept) edition of the magazine is now deployed, with the Royal Norwegian Navy @Forsvaret_no submarine HNoMS Utstein as the cover star, an image by the redoubtable Michael Nitz and goes with our profile of the RNoN's Ula Class boats inside. As ever the mag is packed full
Royal Fleet Auxiliary @RFAHeadquarters Tide Class replenishment tanker RFA Tideforce inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4 for this mag.
