Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship ... for missile systems, and a ‘mission bay’ allowing the ships ...

Each Type 26 frigate will also have a flight deck capable of handling aircraft up to the size of a Chinook helicopter and a flexible mission bay capable of housing and deploying vessels ...

The Type 26 frigate programme will see eight City-class ... Frigates will be fitted with an adaptable mission bay to fit squadrons and equipment such as drones, mine-hunting technology or Royal ...