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 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...
The US Navy has caught a really big fish in the net: On 8 May, it commissioned the USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5). She is the third ship of the Louis B. Puller class and serves as a mobile base for the logistical support of high-value combat units. With a length of 233 metres and a displacement of...
Trainers wanted! A brand new Naval Training Centre (NTC) is currently being handed over as "ready-for-use" (project phase 1) by CAE Maritime Middle East to the UAE Navy in Taweelah. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no ceremony, which will take place in about a year when project phase 2 "ready-for-training" is completed. The scope of delivery includes...
BAE Systems is to manufacture additional FK containers for the US Navy's Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) as part of a contract extension. This will increase the existing supply contract by 76 million dollars. The containers serve several purposes. On the one hand, they are essential for the safe transport and storage of the missiles. On the other hand, they serve as soon as...
The crew of the USS Monterey confiscated thousands of illegal weapons on 6 and 7 May. During the search of a suspicious, stateless dhow in the northern part of the Arabian Sea, the US Coast Guard boarding team found a broad arsenal of warlike material. These included modern anti-tank missiles, Kalashnikov machine guns and sniper rifles, as well as optical weapons and...
Spain's newest submarine was handed over to its element for the first time on 7 May at Navantia in Cartagena, Spain. The boat with the hull number S-81 has been named Isaac Peral since its christening a few days ago. It is the first submarine to be built entirely in the country. Although the design is based...
The Greek Navy has taken delivery of the first refurbished S-70B helicopter. The US Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt, Chief of Staff Konstantinos Floros and Chief of Naval Staff Stylianos Petrakis travelled to Greece for the small ceremony. The eleven aircraft of this type are undergoing extensive maintenance and modernisation work at Aeroservices....
If anything, it's on a grand scale: The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) arrived at Newport News Shipbuilding on 6 May to undergo its scheduled RCOH. This Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) is scheduled about halfway through an aircraft carrier's intended service life to...
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