The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) transited the Bosphorus Strait departing the Black Sea, Sept. 12, after conducting a series of engagements designed to promote peace and stability in the region. Ross’ presence in the Black Sea served to demonstrate the United Stat
Two US Navy combat jets crashed into the western Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to Reuters. The F/A-18 Hornets were part of the US 7th Fleet’s Carrier Air Wing 17 embarked on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. One pilot was found and received medical treatment, and search was underway for t
More than 600 Royal UK Marines and 1500 sailors, soldiers and airman have arrived in the waters off the small Adriatic nation of Albanian as the first amphibious workout of the Response Force Task Group’s annual Cougar deployment gets underway. Albanian Lion, as the exercise is called, will projec
DRS Power & Control Technologies, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is being awarded a $15,7 million firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials contract for DDG 51 Class Power Conversion Module (PCM) for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) preliminary design non-recurring engineering, engineering services,
Ships from various countries are underway in formation during Sea Breeze 2014. Sea Breeze is a multinational maritime exercise with naval forces participants from Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Turkey, Latvia, and the U.S., as well as ships from Standing NATO Maritime Group Two, Task Unit 02, conducti
The Colombian Navy’s frigate ARC “Almirante Padilla”, along with its Bo-105 type helicopter and a detachment of Marine Special Forces, represented Colombia in the 2014 RIMPAC naval exercises alongside 22 other nations. The vessel returned to the Naval ARC “Bolívar” Base in Cartagena on September 1
Sri Lanka Navy arrested 55 Indian fishermen along with 8 Indian fishing trawlers poaching well within Sri Lankan waters on 10th and 11th September 2014. Twenty-five Indian fishermen along with 2 Indian fishing trawlers engaged in poaching in the seas North of PPD were arrested by naval craft attac
The Royal Australian Navy’s largest maritime warfare exercise has ended after a final week of war games off the coast of Darwin. Exercise KAKADU, held from 25 August to 12 September 2014, involved eight ships, 26 aircraft and more than 1200 people from 15 Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean navies. The
The crew of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) held a ceremony on Sept. 8 to pay tribute to the ship’s namesake on the 47th anniversary of his passing. Sgt. Rodney Maxwell Davis, from Macon, Georgia, was posthumously awarded the nation’s highest milit
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $234,2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for design agent, planning yard, engineering and technical support for active nuclear submarines. The efforts provide for drawings and related technical data; design change doc
Sailors aboard the U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) completed Unit Level Training Sustainment (ULTRA-S), Sept. 10. Thirty-one Afloat Training Group (ATG) personnel came aboard the ship to evaluate the ship’s training teams and watch standers by conductin
The RK beach of Visakhapatnam is home to a unique monument dedicated to the city by the Naval fraternity, The Kursura Submarine Museum. The ex-Soviet ‘FOXTROT’ class submarine served the nation for a span of 31 years from 18 December 1969 to 28 February 2001 and was part of the 1971 operations. Af
HMS Argyll arrived in Baltimore to join Americans in a week-long commemorative event celebrating the 200th birthday of the US National Anthem. As Argyll entered the harbour sailing under Key Bridge there was an impressive 21 gun salute between the ship and Fort McHenry, honouring the work of Franc
Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760) returned to its homeport at U.S. Naval Submarine Base, New London from a regularly scheduled deployment on Thursday, Sept. 11. Under the command of Cmdr. Chester T. Parks, Annapolis is returning from the European and Central Command areas
