On board HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën the Maltese Special Duties Enhanced Boarding Team (MSDEBT) works hard to maintain their skills by conducting regular training. Before the deployment started, the MSDEBT visited the Royal Netherlands Navy base in Den Helder to train on the ship with the onboard te
Brazilian Navy’s Naval Aviation has signed a contract for a major midlife upgrade of eight Lynx Mk21A helicopters with Finmeccanica – AgustaWestland. The contract, valued in excess of US$160 million (€117 million), includes replacement of the aircraft’s engines with the CTS800-4N product from LHTE
The guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) arrived in Gdynia, Poland, for a scheduled port visit, July 1. The port visit in Gdynia is part of an ongoing effort by U.S. military forces to strengthen ties with NATO allies and regional partners, while working toward mutual goals of promot
Two Type 45 destroyers have met up in the Eastern Mediterranean while deployed on operations. UK Navy’s HMS Defender and HMS Diamond rendezvoused off the coast of Cyprus – where Diamond was leaving to escort the last consignment of chemical weapons from Syria for destruction and Defender stocked u
The Finnish Border Guard’s new offshore patrol vessel Turva, fuelled with environmentally friendly LNG, has begun service in and around the Gulf of Finland. The Border Guard’s new offshore patrol vessel (OPV) is the second large LNG-fuelled vessel sailing the Finnish waters. As well as performing
The Spanish Navy rescue ship ‘Neptuno’ has participated in the Spanish-Algerian bilateral exercise MEDEX-2014 from the 23rd to the 27th of June. The exercise was conducted off the coast of Oran with the participation of several Algerian Navy units. The MEDEX-type exercises are intended to train na
From 26 June to 1 July 2014, the second and last I2C campaign coordinated by DCNS and its partners is taking place in the Bay of Toulon. This innovating maritime security and surveillance project, supported by the European Union, is entering its last phase of testing before the conclusion of the p
The FREMM Normandie multi-mission frigate, second of the series ordered by OCCAR on behalf of the French DGA (General Directorate for Armament) and the French Navy, has just completed five weeks of intense activities off the Toulon coast. These trials have allowed the validation of the frigate’s c
The Italian Navy ships, deployed on Operation Mare Nostrum during the past weekend, have rescued over 5,000 migrants. Frigate Grecale, with 566 people onboard, and corvette Chimera with 353, were scheduled to reach Pozzallo yesterday. On June 29, 30 bodies were found in the hold during the search
The Ancona S.D.A.I. (Insidious Devices Disposal Experts) of the Italian Navy Operational Divers Group were dispatched to Baia di Vallugola (Pesaro) after an amateur diver notified them of the presence of what looked like an unexploded bomb. The divers identified it as an Italian 500 kg double fuse
Nave Galatea, Italian Navy’s coastal hydrographic unit, is currently engaged in geodetic and topographic surveys in Venice and Marghera for the 2014 Idro-Oceanigraphic Campaign. These two areas are characterized by peculiar tidal rhythms and subjected to evolutionary dynamics, such as subsidence (
HMS Illustrious will sail into the River Forth on Wednesday (July 2) in support of the naming ceremony for the new carrier. HMS Queen Elizabeth will be named by Her Majesty The Queen on July 4 at Rosyth Dockyard where she is currently in build. Helicopter carrier Illustrious – or Lusty as she is [
