More than 260 sailors serving on board HMS Edinburgh will spend their festive season on board the Portsmouth-based warship while she sails the South Atlantic. But in a bid to spread some Christmas cheer the personnel have donned their smartest Santa outfits and created a video for their loved ones s
Admiral Viktor Chirkov, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, has finished an official visit to the United Kingdom at the… [mappress] Source: russiannavy, December 17, 2012; Image: flot
Russia will continue rearmament of submarine base in the forbidden town of Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Peninsula… [mappress] Source: rusnavy, December 17, 2012
Passing the shipyard’s trials, corvette Boiky has been placed in a special basin at Severnaya Verf shipyard to undergo degaussing… [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, December 17, 2012; Image: Military Photos
Type 23 frigate HMS Portland is on her way home to Plymouth after a major refit at Rosyth shipyard. Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Portland has left Rosyth to return to her base port of Plymouth. The departure follows a 50-week, multi-million pound refit by Babcock at the Fife dockyard. With more th
Hydraulic tests of the stern hull section of diesel-electric submarine Rostov-na-Donu were successfully held at… [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, December 17, 2012; Image: Flot
Sailors from frigate HMS Richmond have been put through their paces with a disaster relief exercise under the watchful eye of Flag Officer Sea Training in Devonport. HMS Richmond has spent the last five weeks conducting Basic Operational Sea Training (BOST) under the expert instruction of the Flag O
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argus returned to the UK after a seven-month deployment to the US and Caribbean Sea on counter drugs and disaster-relief patrol. On Thursday December 13, RFA Argus returned into the Port of Portland, Weymouth, having left Falmouth in May, from Atlantic Patrol Task (North) deplo
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a contract to supply water jets to power Marine Alutech Oy Ab’s new Watercat™ M18 AMC high speed troop transport craft, that are currently under construction for the Finnish Navy. The boats, classified as U700, are designed and built by the Mari
It is planned to hold the Fairway of Peace Russian-Ukrainian annual joint naval exercise in July 2013… [mappress] Source: rusnavy, December 14, 2012
Black Sea Fleet (BSF) landing ship Caesar Kunikov will leave Sevastopol in March 2013 and head for Bulgaria to pass repair… [mappress] Source: rusnavy, December 14, 2012
Multinational service members participated in boarding training aboard the Hellenic navy training ship Aris at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Center during Eurasia Partnership Capstone 2012 (EPC 12), Dec. 12. This training is just one of many events that EPC has as part of its c
