Sea Power

India and China are competing for influence in a critical area of the Indian ocean—the Bay of Bengal—with nuclear submarines, military bases and a naval build-up. Here’s why. RUSI's Dr Sidharth Kaushal joins to provides analysis.

The early delivery of Royal Navy frigates being built by Scottish shipyards would be “highly desirable” in light of current worldwide threats, a defence expert has said. Professor Trevor Taylor, director of the defence, industries and society programme and a professorial fellow in defence management at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, said that at a time when the global security picture is increasingly fraught, the sooner that new Type 26 and Type 31 classes are brought into service, the better.

Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said missile technology was developing at such a pace that it was becoming more feasible to “locate and track” aircraft carriers.