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Royal Navy may lean on commercial platforms as “floating bases”
In one fell swoop, the Defence Secretary John Healey put an end to the life cycle of the Type 23 frigate, HMS Northumberland, and two Albion-class amphibious assault ships. Faced with a declining ...
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First MEWSIC Next Generation Electronic Warfare System for Royal Navy Ships Delivered
The same installations were also used on the Albion class amphibious assault ships, Invincible class aircraft carriers, and the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, as all three of these had radar masts ...
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UK to ax amphibious assault ships, a frigate 31 helicopters and obsolete drones
Albion and Bulwark are the Navy's only amphibious assault ships, designed to land Royal ... He said the two Wave-class tankers had not been to sea “for years” and were in the decommissioning ...