The Ministry of Defence has
responded to a report on delays and escalating costs in its
major projects by calling on industry to ‘raise its
game’ in delivering equipment on time and on budget.
A Royal Navy destroyer sailed
from the UK this morning on a deployment which will see her
join a French task group and visit the Middle East and India.
HMS Echo, one of the Royal
Navy’s two new multi-role survey ships, sailed from
her home port of Devonport on Friday on her first deployment
to the Middle East.
Turkey and all the trimmings
was on the Christmas menu for HMS Campbeltown – but
for the Type 22 frigate that meant the country as well as
the festive fare during a packed period alongside before resuming
patrol duties.
Reported sightings of ghosts
and stories of gory deaths at the former armaments depot of
Priddy’s Hard have been researched by staff at Explosion!
the Museum of Naval Firepower.
Eleven Iraqi fishermen who
had been adrift for five days when their dhow broke down in
the Northern Gulf are safe, thanks the Type 23 frigate HMS
Norfolk.
Rotating squads is part and
parcel of modern football – but Royal Navy coaches could
find themselves with a major headache if they tried to rotate
the 42,000 members of their own pool of players.
