Helicopter crews practise day and night landings on HMS Prince of Wales

Royal Navy and RAF helicopter crews have been practising their night-time and daytime landings on board the Royal Navy's biggest warship.

Video footage posted to social media captures pilots carrying out the daring landings in near-complete darkness on HMS Prince of Wales.

The ship is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy.

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The ship's official account on X, the new name for the social platform Twitter, said: "Day time...Night time... Anytime...on R09. A few days left but next time we sail, it's much, much more!"

The post was alongside incredible images of the Navy's Merlin and RAF's Chinook helicopters, being successfully guided onto the landing and flight deck of the 65,000-tonne vessel.

This comes after HMS Prince of Wales was put through its paces during its latest "power tests" at sea.

Until July, the warship had been in Rosyth for nearly nine months undergoing repairs to her propeller shaft after she broke down leaving her home port for deployment to the US in August 2022.