👇It’s hard to see Project Hunter as anything more than a vanity project for Rangers and Commandos. It’s a kick in the teeth for the UK Land Industrial Strategy as it won’t be made in Britain. The KS-1 has a difficult to clean direct gas impingement system. And it’s a pointless…

And we can highly recommend that podcast episode as a taster for the article in the October 2023 edition. It's out of this world...

The Royal Marines today made public details of a new assault rifle, the US-origin Knight’s Stoner 1 (KS-1), to be issued to UK Commando Forces ‘lead strike teams’. It has advanced optical & thermal sights plus silencer systems. Pic: RMs.

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During the latest Exercise Tartan Eagle Royal Marines from 43 Commando, which protects the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent force, visited Chesapeake, Virginia, USA to train alongside US Marine Corps colleagues who do a similar job. The UK & US take it turns to host the event.

#OnThisDay 1939 Britain suspended its obligations to control the naval arms race imposed by the 1936 London Naval Treaty as the country re-armed and rebuilt the Royal Navy for action in #WW2

NEWS: DOD Official Says AUKUS Partnership Strengthens Indo-Pacific Security
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#OTD in 1942, Mess Attendant 1st Class Charles Jackson French swam through shark-infested waters while towing a raft carrying 15 of his wounded shipmates to safety after USS Gregroy was sunk near Guadalcanal. 'The Human Tugboat' received a letter of commendation from ADM Halsey.

It’s our anniversary! Today marks 2 years since we sailed from Portsmouth with HMS Spey to our mission in the Indo-Pacific. Follow us as we share some of our favourite moments from the deployment over the next week! 🦁 🇬🇧 #ThrowbackThursday

Its been a busy, but successful Domain Day showcasing the ships capabilities and the future of minehunting warfare to defence stakeholders NavyX Royal Fleet Auxiliary Capt Ali Clack RFA Thales Group MASTT Mine Threat Exploitation Group (MTXG)

With the war over and his job done, Admiral John S. McCain Sr. returned to his home in California and died #OTD in 1945, just four days after witnessing the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

[ #DRONES ] ⚓ 💡 Episode 2 – Drones: a technical challenge

For the first time in France, an aerial drone was successfully launched from a nuclear attack submarine (SSN). This technical challenge was carried out by Naval Group and its partners DIODON Drone Technology and the Marine nationale

Einen klasse Wochenteiler euch allen! Genießt den Lies ein Buch Tag und natürlich den Tag des Kaffee Eis 😉 #enjoy Lars Goessing BueroBerlin 🕊🌻🌻 COM Seebataillon non-official COM_DEU_Flotilla1 COM_DEU_Flotilla2 FlyNavy1 Saturnax 🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦 Alexandra von Stülpnagel Kommandeur 1. Korvettengeschwader

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Around the Sound @BritainsOcean City / @VisitPlymouth on a very bright, warm day.

Royal Fleet Auxiliary RFA Tidespring , Brittany Ferries Pont Aven, KHM HMNB Devonport and Serco Group's SD Padstow.

Very proactive move. Btw we have three pages on 'Top Guns v UFOs', or UAPs as they like to refer to them today, in the next edition. Out soon.
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Exercising with HMAS Childers this week has provided us with a great opportunity to train alongside our friends from Royal Australian Navy . We conducted navigational training, a Gunnery exercise, comms serials, and exchanged personnel for cross-pollination!! 🇦🇺🤝🇬🇧

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚓ 🇬🇧 The Royal Navy's HMSPortland arrived in Halifax, the first of our visiting @HFXFleetWeek ships. Please join us in welcoming them to 📍 Halifax! 👏 hfxfleetweek.ca #HFXFleetWeek #FriendShips

Ex HMS Chatham and Cornwall on the trots a decade ago. WarshipCam Warships IFR Warship World Navy Lookout

We are embarking stores for 1450 people, ready to sail. We’ll have :

🫘10T of baked beans
🐷Sausages stretching 4x the height of the Burj Khalifa
🧃40 bath tubs of squash

🥚It would take 240 hens a year to lay the number of eggs we have!

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'SWEDEN WILL BE THE LYNCHPIN
FOR BALTIC DEFENCE' - in the current edition Usman Ansari outlines what Sweden & its navy bring to the table as the Scandinavian nation finally looks set to join NATO. Article available in hard copy magazine or digital edition bit.ly/wifrmag