Royal Navy

We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS

Boatnotes II El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course

Networks21 Sep 2021 | 122

British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves

Boatnotes Announcing the return of El Reg's Boatnotes series with the RN

Bootnotes27 Aug 2021 | 47

In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?

Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force

Databases23 Jul 2021 | 12

UK spends £36m on 18 little 'bullet-proof' boats to protect Royal Navy assets

Like the massive ships with miniguns

Offbeat16 Jun 2021 | 83

Royal Navy and Air Force get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga

We don't want to take 'first past the post' candidates, says contract award notice. Ahem

Applications04 Mar 2021 | 21

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines

Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces

On-Prem18 Dec 2020 | 94

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

British military continues push for new autonomous tech

Bootnotes07 Jul 2020 | 23

Royal Navy nuclear submarine captain rapped for letting crew throw shoreside BBQ party

They'd been at sea for months – before coronavirus, even

Bootnotes24 Apr 2020 | 165

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Now, about the history with the South China Sea...

Bootnotes10 Dec 2019 | 207

Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery

MoD tech accelerator asks industry, is this idea possible?

Bootnotes06 Sep 2019 | 44

What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse

Boatnotes Plus: Your vulture clocked the Northern Lights from the Arctic Circle

Security02 Jan 2019 | 140

Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

Boatnotes Warships don't only sink the nation's enemies, you know

Science21 Nov 2018 | 97

Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME

Boatnotes Fear not, Apple fanbois, they're also running Macintosh

OSes09 Nov 2018 | 147

UK's Royal Navy accepts missile-blasting missile as Gulf clouds gather

Sea Ceptor good – more warships abroad, less so...

Science24 May 2018 | 123

Navy names new attack sub HMS Agincourt

The last one was named after a Dickensian thief, to be fair

Security14 May 2018 | 139

UK's Royal Navy buys £13m mine-blasting robot boat

Atlas Elektronik's ARCIMS demo vessel taken on by Her Maj's finest

Science08 May 2018 | 54

South China waters are red, Brit warships are blue, HMS Sutherland's sailing there

And Queen Lizzie will too

Security14 Feb 2018 | 63

Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

Four years ago Brit taxpayers spent £65m doing her up

Security03 Jan 2018 | 134

How much will Britain's next F-35s cost? Not telling, says MoD

Plus: Naval overstretch means the flag isn't flying overseas for Christmas

Security21 Dec 2017 | 94

HMS Queen Elizabeth has sprung a leak and everyone's all a-tizzy

200 litres an hour? Fetch the kettle, we could fill it from that

Security19 Dec 2017 | 167

HMS Queen Lizzie formally joins the Royal Navy

At least one part of the 'Year of the Navy' went to plan

Security07 Dec 2017 | 54

Royal Navy destroyer leaves Middle East due to propeller problems

For once it's not an engine breakdown

Security23 Nov 2017 | 86

New UK aircraft carrier to be commissioned on Pearl Harbor anniversary

You know, the surprise attack intended to sink aircraft carriers

Bootnotes17 Nov 2017 | 89

Even more warship cuts floated for the Royal Navy

Who needs to protect carriers or send Royal Marines shore anyway?

Security26 Oct 2017 | 122

HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

Any day from next Thursday onwards

Security07 Aug 2017 | 138

HMS Frigatey Mcfrigateface given her official name

It's Glasgow, before you lot get too excited

Security20 Jul 2017 | 121

HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship running Swiss Cheese OS

Updated Spotted on carrier control room screens - reports

Software27 Jun 2017 | 139

Blighty's first aircraft carrier in six years is set to take to the seas

HMS Queen Elizabeth prepares to sail for the first time

Security26 Jun 2017 | 131

Blighty's buying another 17 F-35s, confirms the American government

All F-35Bs for the Navy – but, oddly, isn't set in stone

Security19 May 2017 | 118

US Coast Guard: We're rather chuffed with our new Boeing spy drone

Meanwhile Britain is binning it. Well done, admirals

Bootnotes12 May 2017 | 44

UK.gov confirms it won't be buying V-22 Ospreys for new aircraft carriers

Also confirms earlier operational date for HMS Queen Elizabeth

Security24 Mar 2017 | 119

Decapitating Rockall: How a 1970s Navy expedition blasted the top off the Atlantic islet

Pics Operation Top Hat report surfaces from the archives

Bootnotes22 Mar 2017 | 48

National Audit Office: Brit aircraft carrier project is fine and dandy... for now

Small matter of an ongoing personnel shortage, though

Security17 Mar 2017 | 38

This is where UK's Navy will park its 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers

It was supposed to be a 40,000-ton US supply ship on the day, though

Security13 Mar 2017 | 129

Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard

HMS Forth, like the bridge

Security09 Mar 2017 | 86

New Royal Navy Wildcat helicopters can't transmit vital data

Crews have to land and move tactical info around via USB sticks. No, really

Security17 Feb 2017 | 133

All of Blighty's attack submarines are out of action – report

No boats capable of chasing off naughty Russians, we're told

Bootnotes10 Feb 2017 | 106

HMS Queen Elizabeth is delayed, Ministry of Defence confesses

Haughty minister tries brushing it off as pedantry

Legal01 Feb 2017 | 101

Britain collects new naval tanker a mere 18 months late

Why? 'Umm, er, cable insulation standards,' mutters MoD

Legal19 Jan 2017 | 104

All aboard the warship that'll make you Sicker

New Royal Navy vessel's official motto is somewhat stomach-churning

Legal09 Dec 2016 | 48

HMS Illustrious sets sail for scrapyard after last-ditch bid fails

Updated Venerable aircraft carrier makes her final journey

Bootnotes07 Dec 2016 | 102

HMS Queen Lizzie to carry American jets and sail in support of US foreign policy

She might as well wear the Stars and Stripes at this rate

Legal02 Dec 2016 | 87

Give BAE a kicking and flog off new UK warships, says review

Buy them, run them in and then sell them, says Sir John Parker

Bootnotes29 Nov 2016 | 50

Creaking Royal Navy is 'first-rate' thunders irate admiral

Comment He's bound to say that. Truth is, it'll get worse before it gets better

Security28 Nov 2016 | 58

Here's how the missile-free Royal Navy can sink enemy ships after 2018

It's tried, tested and proven in all-out war – and we've already got it, unlike the F-35

Bootnotes17 Nov 2016 | 80

UK warships to have less firepower than 19th century equivalents as missiles withdrawn

Harpoon to go in 2018 with no replacement – yet

Bootnotes16 Nov 2016 | 140

See that red spot on the chart? Sail over it and you'll find a Russian sub

Take RN exercise Unmanned Warrior, add drone data and Esri's ArcGIS maps...

Science28 Oct 2016 | 28

Today is the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar

Toast the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson, shipmates

Bootnotes21 Oct 2016 | 55

Britain's fight to get its F-35 aircraft carriers operational turns legal

OK, a bunch of uniformed lawyers had a thinly-disguised knees-up

Legal20 Oct 2016 | 55

AI, AI, captain: Royal Navy warships to set sail with computer officers

STARTLE'd code to make decisions from waves of information

AI + ML18 Oct 2016 | 35

Puny human sailors still needed... until drone machine learning tech catches up

RN admiral insists robots won't replace sailors, for now

Edge + IoT17 Oct 2016 | 12

Drone exercise will transform future naval warfare, says Navy

But not quite in a Rise of the Machines way ... for now

Edge + IoT14 Oct 2016 | 38

Roboats hunt 'mines' and 'submarines' on Ex Unmanned Warrior

RotM They're all simulated – but the drones aren't

AI + ML11 Oct 2016 | 19

UK will build new nuclear bomb subs, says Defence Secretary

CND: Meh, come and protest against austerity

Legal04 Oct 2016 | 195

US Marine Corps to fly F-35s from HMS Queen Lizzie as UK won't have enough jets

It's OK, the Yanks let us play with their ships ... well, we hope

On-Prem09 Sep 2016 | 162

Newest Royal Navy warship weighs as much as 120 London buses

Given final kiss in Glasgow as fitters climb on board

Bootnotes31 Aug 2016 | 98