British guns on US ships but few British ones, MPs told

British guns on US ships but few British ones, MPs told

Naval guns made by a British company are fitted to almost all United States Navy and Coast Guard ships yet to hardly any Royal Navy vessels, the Treasury Committee has been told, the UK Defence Journal understands. The claim was made at a Treasury Committee evidence session on defence spending and finance on 3 June 2026, which questioned three experts on how the UK funds its defence and on the relationship between the Whitehall departments that …