Another of the country's warships is now travelling in the sea area around the Netherlands Antilles. HNLMS Holland was welcomed with 21 gun salutes from Fort Krommelijn on Curacao. The Holland is being deployed as a so-called station ship and will remain on site for several months. Most recently, this position was filled by the Groningen, a...
Together with the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Peter the Great (Project 1144), more than ten Russian units have been exercising in the Barents Sea. The minesweepers, submarines, submarine hunters and missile ships of the Northern Fleet, under the command of the Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet, Vice Admiral Oleg Golubev, trained a number of different scenarios. After leaving the base...
After Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth yesterday, the Queen herself came on board just a few hours before departure. She was received by the commander of UK Carrier Strike Group 21, Commodore Steve Moorhouse and the commanding officer of the Queen Elizabeth, Captain Angus Essenhigh. She spoke with female soldiers...
One day before the British Carrier Strike Group leaves the UK for East Asia, Boris Johnson paid another visit to Queen Elizabeth. Together with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, First Sea Lord Tony Radakin and Chief of Air Staff Mike Wigston, he was given a briefing on the (together with the Prince of Wales)...
After an interruption of one month, the Canadian frigate Halifax is once again the flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1). She has taken over this function from the Danish frigate Absalon, the type ship of her class, which entered service in 2007. The Halifax was previously the flagship. At present, the...
From 11 to 13 May, two ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet are visiting Singapore. The destroyer Admiral Tributs and the ocean-going tug Kalar have moored at Changi Naval Base to replenish supplies. The Tributs is a Project 1155 (Udaloy I) destroyer. At 163 metres in length, it displaces 6840 tonnes. To the...
On 10 May, EU, Japanese and Djiboutian naval and naval air warfare assets conducted a joint exercise in the Gulf of Aden. The exercise was based on the scenario of an anti-piracy operation. The participants were the Italian frigate "Carabiniere", currently the flagship of Operation Atalanta, the destroyer "Setogiri" of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), a Spanish P 3-M maritime reconnaissance vessel,...
The frigate Lübeck left her home port today, 11 May. After travelling around Europe, she will join the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2) in the Mediterranean. She will replace the tender Werra, which has been deployed there up to now and will then start its journey home to Kiel. On ship...
The Australian shipyard Austal has handed over what is now the tenth Guardian-class patrol boat to the country's Ministry of Defence. In a small ceremony, the boat was then immediately handed over to the Solomon Islands, an island nation in the South Pacific. The Guardian class has a length of 39.5 metres and is based on the designs of the Bay-,...
Another incident occurred in the Strait of Hormuz this Monday evening (10 May). Thirteen Iranian Revolutionary Guards speedboats approached an American naval convoy passing through the Strait at high speed. The ships included the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine USS Georgia and the Ticonderoga cruiser Monterey. Despite signals...
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