Are you ready for HMS Birmingham? Or HMS Sheffield, the Shiny Sheff? The Geordie Gunboat, HMS Newcastle? And a couple of 'capital' ships: HMS Edinburgh and London? We are. Today the MOD placed a £4.2bn order for the five Batch 2 Type 26 frigates with BAE Systems to complete the City class between now and the mid-2030s. They will join HMS Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast – all under construction on the Clyde – in the forefront of anti-submarine warfare into the 2060s. 🔗http://ow.ly/ZZ7R50LEux2 | Roy

Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan has joined Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond to meet the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier task group in the Norwegian Sea. www.royalnavy.mod.uk/type45 | Royal Navy

Under the newly signed Lunna House Agreement, the Type 26 frigate (City-class) will form the backbone of a joint British–Norwegian anti-submarine fleet of at least 13 warships. The force is tasked with patrolling the North Atlantic from the GIUK gap to the High North protecting critical undersea cables and pipelines, while hunting increasing Russian submarine activity. The integration of Sonar 2087 towed arrays, quiet CODLOG propulsion, Sea Ceptor air-defence cells and Sting Ray torpedoes signal