In this guest article, Tom Hoyland considers the parallels between mass-produced wartime corvettes and today’s uncrewed systems as a means to increase anti-submarine effect. The North Atlantic has always been a brutal arena for naval warfare, a vast, unforgiving expanse where submarines lurk and convoys fought for survival. Today, with Russian undersea activity increasing, the […] The post Echoes of the Flower-class corvettes – Royal Navy’s plans to increase anti-submarine warfare mas...| Navy Lookout
In the first of a series of articles focussing on the Astute class SSNs, we look at the programme's history and how decisions made decades ago continue to impact today's fleet. Background In the late 1960s the RN had decided that it would invest heavily in nuclear attack submarines with a force goal of 20| Navy Lookout - Independent Royal Navy news and analysis