Defence IQ Glossary: HMS Queen Elizabeth

A new helicopter-borne surveillance system has been chosen to protect the Royal Navy’s future Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. The MOD and Lockheed Martin UK, as the prime contractor for Crowsne...

An F-35 conducts its first arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelly M. Agee) An F-35C Joint Strike Fighter has lande...

The largest warship in the Royal Navy’s history was officially named HMS Queen Elizabeth today in a champagne ceremony led by the monarch she was named after. "Wherever the ship may serve, what...

Her Majesty The Queen will officially name the Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at a ceremony in Scotland this summer. The naming ceremony at Rosyth dockyard in Fife on Friday...

The U-turn that Philip Hammond said would save £1.2 billion – when in May last year he announced to parliament that the UK would be reverting to the F-35B STOVL Joint Strike Fighter rather...

Geoff Searle, Programme Director for the UK’s new Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) aircraft carriers, sits down with Defence IQ to discuss the Aircraft Carrier Alliance and its progress to date as th...

By James Bosbotinis The development of the Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) aircraft carrier programme and wider Carrier Strike capability remains a controversial issue and subject to much debate within B...

Construction of the first Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier took a significant step forward, June 29, as the final rings of the forward hull section came together for the first time at BAE System...

The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, in his capacity as Acting Minister for Defence, today visited the newly established Headquarters Joint Task Force 637 (JTF637) which is...