Claire Apthorp

All articles by Claire Apthorp

1. Sizing up the US Navy’s future Guided Missile Frigate designs

   In January this year, at the US Surface Navy Association Symposium in Washington DC, Dr Regan Campbell, PMS515 program manager…
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   25 Apr
2. Scanning the Dutch navy

   The Royal Netherlands Navy contracts work for the maintenance of its vessels and submarines to Dutch organisation Marinebedrijf Koninklijke Marine….
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   24 Sep
3. Type 26: all systems go

   On 2 July 2017, BAE Systems announced that the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) had signed off on a £3.7b…
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   18 Sep
4. The future of Littoral warfare

   When looking toward future iterations of battlefield systems, aligning the requirements of military operators with the technological ingenuity emerging from…
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   30 Jul
5. Gerald R Ford: Ready or not?

   July 2016 was not a good month for the US Navy’s nuclear-powered USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier. Two blows…
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   12 Jun
6. US Marine Corp’s ACV competition: profiling the contenders

   In March 2015 the US Marine Corps (USMC) embarked on the latest effort of its long-running programme to replace its…
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   8 May
7. Skeldar: breathing new life into the VTOL UAV market

   The past year saw UMS Skeldar set the maritime UAS market firmly in its sights. With the newly re-branded V-200…
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   6 Feb
8. Ironing out the ‘snags’ on the UK Navy’s Type 45 destroyers

   The UK Royal Navy’s Daring class Type 45 destroyers are the backbone of the navy’s global mission, which includes everything…
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   13 Jul