Richard Thomas

PREMIUM: US plans reserve status for unwanted Littoral Combat Ships

The first four of the USN’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) – two of each variant – will be decommissioned from service by the end of ...

PREMIUM: Entire crew of USN carrier to be tested for COVID-19

The USN’s USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading to Guam where it will remain pierside while the entire crew is tested for the COVID-19 virus after ...

PREMIUM: FFG(X) programme fails to adhere to sustainment guidance

The USN’s FFG(X) programme could suffer the same sustainment cost overruns during the service lifetime of the type as has been found for previous classes of warships, ...

PREMIUM: Unwanted – one forward repair ship, two careful owners

The intended sale of the UK Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s (RFA's) former repair and marine logistics vessel Diligence has again been extended, following the apparent failure ...

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Richard Thomas is the Senior Editor, Naval at Shephard Media. Richard joined the company in 2015 as editor of Unmanned Vehicles and International Maritime and Port Security (now Naval Warfare International), and he subsequently served as Editor-in-Chief.

Richard returned the UK in 2014 after five and a half years in the Sultanate of Oman working on the Muscat Daily newspaper, where he initially ran the diplomatic and maritime security beats before taking up the Deputy News Editor position in his final couple of years.