The first major loss of life in the conflict came when the obsolete Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed by a ...

After her combat years, HMS Bristol became a training vessel. When she was finally retired, many hoped she would be preserved ...

The Royal Navy's Type-45 destroyers - the UK's main air defence platforms, capable of tracking hundreds of missiles at a ...

A British version of Israel's 'Iron Dome' system would fail to protect the whole of the UK against Russian missile attacks - ...

said four decommissioned Royal Navy units, including the unique HMS Bristol, have been put up for sale. The Bristol belonged to Task Group 317.8 during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. The three ...

Forty years ago, British troops were advancing towards Port Stanley in the Falklands – most of them ... Rod and his men were landed by a Royal Navy helicopter close to the house.

Where families now stroll, shoppers browse, and office workers meet, there is hardly anything left to tell you of the area’s previous incarnation.

The Falklands Legacy During the Cold War, the Royal Marines were primarily tasked as an ... and restructured Commando units. The Royal Navy has designated two LRGs – one for the Euro-Atlantic, and one ...

Thomas ‘Peck’ Hunter was awarded the Victoria Cross for repeatedly storming German machine-gun positions outside the town of Comacchio in northern Italy in April 1945 during the Second World War ...

The UK and Argentina went to war over the ... to go to the Falklands. Hosted by British Forces South Atlantic Islands, they took part in rifle and pistol training with The Royal Gurkha Rifles ...