Uploaded June 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Type 45 destroyer HMS DEFENDER has been continuing her sea trials this week, testing the Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS). This short video shows the ship practicing a towed-target exercise with a Falcon aircraft. The aircraft towed a small target on a very long cable as it flew over the ship, which the Phalanx then shot down.
Video released by Royal Navy
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Type 45 destroyer HMS DEFENDER has been continuing her sea trials this week, testing the Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS). This short video shows the ship practicing a towed-target exercise with a Falcon aircraft. The aircraft towed a small target on a very long cable as it flew over the ship, which the Phalanx then shot down.
Video released by Royal Navy
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Watchkeeper, the Armys next-generation unmanned aerial system, has been cleared to begin military flight training with the Royal Artillery. Gathering crucial information from the battlefield, Watchkeeper will provide UK troops with life-saving surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence. It will also give personnel on the ground much greater situational awareness, helping to reduce threats.
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The UK developed, combat-proven, Brimstone missile carries out the worlds first surface-to-surface salvo engagement of multiple Fast In-shore Attack Craft (FIAC).
Video released by MBDA UK
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Work on the first of the Royal Navys two new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers is well under way at a dockyard in Rosyth.
The structure is almost complete in what is now the largest engineering project in the UK.
A government U-turn over fighter jets for the carriers cost taxpayers £74m, according to a new report by the National Audit Office.
The BBCs Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale saw the progress being made on the ship.")
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A pair of Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 strike aircraft take on fuel from a Voyager tanker high in the skies over Iraq, during Operation Shader.
Video released by the UK Ministry of Defence
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Royal Marines have carried out live firing exercises by staging a mock dawn raid on an enemy village (25 October 2013).
40 Commando Royal Marines are currently taking part in Exercise Black Alligator in the Mojave Desert, California.
They are in the USA to hone their warfighting skills alongside their US colleagues at the sprawling US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Centre, which has nearly 1,000 sq miles of ideal training ground.
Read more about this exercise and see more images and news about 40 Commando on their webpage: http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/40cdo
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