Sky News takes a closer look at the warship the UK has deployed to protect RAF Akrotiri from Iranian projectiles ...

HMS Dragon has begun its journey to the eastern Mediterranean to join the UK's defensive operations in the region. The Type ...

Donald Trump has demanded Britain send warships to help defend the Strait of Hormuz and avert a global recession.

The Government has been criticised for not deploying the warship to the Eastern Mediterranean earlier amid the conflict in ...

Fri, Mar 13, 2026 The Royal Navy destroyer sent to protect British forces after a drone strike on Cyprus spent three days lingering in the English Channel before finally clearing UK waters. The £1 ...

The British warship being readied to protect a UK military base in Cyprus is not expected to sail until next week, officials say, as conflict spirals in the Middle East. HMS Dragon is being loaded ...

A union has claimed the long wait to send Britain's RAF Dragon warship out to the Mediterranean was due to a resupply contract that led to staff working shorter hours ...

The Royal Navy did not make a formal offer earlier this year to deploy a Type 45 destroyer before HMS Dragon was eventually sent to the eastern Mediterranean, the Ministry of Defence has claimed.

UK warship HMS Dragon departs for Cyprus amid Middle East crisis - The ship, capable of shooting down drones and ballistic missiles, has left its naval base in Portsmouth for the eastern Mediterranean ...

Donald Trump urges UK to send warships to help secure Strait of Hormuz - Tehran is blockading the narrow sea passage out of ...

The prime minister said the "UK is fully committed to the security of Cyprus and British military personnel based" on RAF Akrotiri.

Fresh pictures from the Royal Navy are showing the ongoing preparations as HMS Dragon prepared to deploy to the eastern ...