It’s not every day that a Royal Navy warship celebrates her 20th birthday and HMS Somerset has done so in style. Currently in the final month of her deployment, Somerset, and her seaboats, have drawn the number 20 across the blue seas of the Mediterranean. The 200 men and women have adopted the ta
Today’s frigates operate in the most challenging of circumstances. Whether they are fending off enemy submarines, thwarting pirates or carrying out disaster relief and humanitarian missions, these ships need to be effective, efficient, safe and sustainable. The U.K. Ministry of Defence has engaged
HMS Montrose demonstrated NATO Allies’ resolve in the Baltic Sea last week as it tracked a Russian warship off the Danish coast. Montrose, deployed on the multinational Baltops exercise, was dispatched to investigate after picking up the radar signature of an unidentified surface ship. Despite hig
Southern Nuclear was honored by the US Navy Reserve during a ceremony on June 20, at the Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., for its exceptional support of America’s citizen sailors. The company was one of 39 civilian employers from across the nation that received this prestigious award. Nomina
Sri Lanka Naval troops attached to SLNS Agbo of the Northern Naval Command on information received recovered 3.5 kilograms of cannabis at Mathagal in Jaffna on 23rd June 2014. The recovered items were handed over to the Ilavalai Police for further investigations. [mappress] Press Release, June 24,
An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Royal Maces of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 27 is on the flight deck of the U.S Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) as the ship departs Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, after a four-day port visit. George Washington and its embarked
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) kicked off the three-day Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) with more than 130 inspectors, both military and civilian, coming aboard June 23. The inspection will cover the ship’s thousands of spaces. Inspectors will scour more than 200 mile
The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) returned to San Diego, June 23, after completing a near two week Certification Exercise (CERTEX) in preparation for a scheduled deployment. CERTEX is a comprehensive, complex training evolution that combines
A Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) Formidable-class stealth frigate, RSS Intrepid, with an embarked S-70B Seahawk naval helicopter, is participating in a Multinational Group Sail from Guam to Hawaii with eight warships from the Royal Brunei Navy, People’s Liberation Army (Navy) and United States Nav
One of the US Navy’s E-2C Hawkeyes retired from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120 on May 9 and reported for duty at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. The E-2 is an important addition to the National Naval Aviation Museum’s collection, said Phil Goodspeed, Na
Indian Vice Admiral Satish Soni, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam and Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command, Kochi called on Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief of the Naval Staff at his office on 23 June 14. Bei
Sri Lanka Naval Craft attached to the Northern Naval Command on routine patrol arrested 11 Indian fishermen and 3 Indian fishing trawlers poaching in Sri Lankan waters North of Delft on 23rd June 2014. The arrested fishermen and the trawlers were handed over to the officials of the Department of F
The new Compact Swaging Machine (CSM), responsible for automating a current hazardous process and reducing Sailor workload, successfully completed its first operational fleet test aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) May 12. The CSM uses hydraulic pressure to mold, or swage, a terminal onto an ai
Capt. Wes Naylor relieved Capt. Steve “Snak” Nakagawa as commanding officer of the US Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) and Naval Support Activity Orlando during a change of command ceremony June 20. The ceremony was held at 10 a.m. in front of NSA Orlando’s de Florez Co
