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Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key, KCB, CBE, ADC (born 7 November 1965) is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord since November 2021. He has commanded HM Ships Sandown, Iron Duke and Lancaster, and deployed on operations to Kosovo and Iraq. He was appointed Fleet Commander in 2016, and the Chief of Joint Operations in 2019.
Jan 26, 2024 · Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, French Navy Adm. Vaujour, and Royal Navy Adm. Sir Ben Key, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff of the United Kingdom, participated in a...
Jan 26, 2024 · Speakers included: Chief of the French Navy Adm. Nicolas Vaujour; Royal Navy First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff of the United Kingdom Adm. Sir Ben Key; Adm. Enrico Credendino, Chief of...
- Interoperability and Interchangeability
- Prosecuting Russian Submarines
- Trust Between Allies Brings Asymmetric Advantage
During a press conference held at the end of the conference, Naval Newsasked the three head of navies to share their vision of what interoperability and interchangeability is, and if this means “procuring the same piece of kit”. Admiral Sir Ben Key answered first, explaining that to his mind, interoperability doesn’t mean procuring the same piece o...
Admiral Mike Gilday used a real life and current example of where interoperability mattered: Prosecuting Russian submarines: As reported previously, Suffren, France’s latest SSN was spotted in Faslane, Scotland back in September 2022. A US Navy Virginia-class SSN and Royal Navy Astute-class SSNs were also spotted in the same timeframe. This means a...
Naval Newsregular contributor Dr. Lee Willet then jumped in and asked a follow on question related to interoperability: One can imagine that putting an aircraft wing or even a single aircraft, on board somebody else’s aircraft carrier, requires an awful lot of planning and an awful lot of logistics, weapons, fuel and everything else… But build on t...
Jan 26, 2024 · While aircraft carriers face challenges, there’s still no better better way to deliver mobile expeditionary strike, force projection and force protection from the sea, said Adm. Sir Ben Key,...
- Rudy Ruitenberg
The heads of the three leading NATO navies, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral Mike Gilday, First Sea Lord, Admiral Ben Key, and the Chief of Staff of the French Navy, Admiral Pierre Vandier, met last week in France for the first ever "Paris Naval Conference".
Jan 26, 2024 · Sir Ben Key, First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, said “The [maritime] battlespace has become more complicated.”
