Maritime Warfare Centre

The Maritime Warfare Centre is an alliance of Servicemen, scientists, and analysts, whose sole driving purpose is to create battle-winning tactics for the Royal Navy, based on the tactics that have won, the tactics that analysis proves will win, the tactics that first-hand experience says will win.

Analysis that is powered by carefully-constructed scenarios, running thousands of models of different reactions, looking back on an exhaustive legacy of knowledge.

The unit is made up of some 120 people, split roughly equally between civilian and military, although at any given time a hefty chunk of these people will be out at sea, on board ships, running trials and experiments; and most importantly asking questions.

The mix of civilian and military pulls together front-line experience and scientific rigour –the sterile world of the computer meets the vivid world of the front-line.

The analysis work of the men and women, both civilian and military, of the MWC is being fed on a daily basis into the operational decisions being made by CinC Fleet’s staff at Navy Command HQ. The MWC’s work is at the heart of generating a Royal Navy that can fight and win.