Taiwan Strait, China and British warships
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China said it deployed naval and air force on Friday to monitor a pair of U.S. and British warships sailing through the Taiwan Strait, a busy shipping lane it claims as its own. The American ship USS Higgins and British vessel HMS Richmond "provoked trouble" in its coastal waters,
Britain has agreed a £10bn deal with Norway to supply its navy with UK-made warships after France, Germany and the United States were snubbed.
Battleships are generally best known by their guns, and for good reason. A ship carrying eight sixteen-inch guns may have the same weight of broadside as one carrying twelve fourteen-inch guns, but the larger guns generally have longer ranges and more ...
The UK has secured a £10bn deal to supply the Norwegian navy with at least five new warships. The agreement to provide Type 26 frigates will be the UK's "biggest ever warship export deal by value", the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said,
The planned purchase of the Type 26 frigates built in Glasgow comes as the two nations seek to deepen their co-operation in countering Russian operations in the seas along NATO's eastern flank. It is part of a plan for a fleet of at least 13 anti-submarine ships to operate jointly in northern Europe.